Stacey Abrams Wants Democrats to Fight for Every Vote -- Even in the South
WASHINGTON — Something’s amiss in the state of Georgia. According to the right-leaning Washington Examiner, Republicans fear that their firm grip on power in the conservative stronghold is in danger. “In 2020, people will be coming to Georgia to help us out,” a GOP activist told the Examiner. “We can’t take for granted anymore that Georgia is safely in the Republican column.”
No single person can take more credit for the changing trajectory of Georgia politics than Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic leader of the state’s House of Representatives who narrowly lost her bid for governor last year. Abrams was the first black woman to be a gubernatorial nominee in Georgia history, and she would have been America’s first-ever black female governor had she not lost by 55,000 votes. Her opponent was the sitting secretary of state — “the referee, the scorekeeper and the contestant,” as she puts it — and the race was marred by widespread evidence of voter suppression. She’s taken some heat for saying that her election was “stolen” from the voters of Georgia.
But Abrams, 45, is undaunted. In the months since the election, she launched Fair Fight Action, a group devoted to battling voter suppression with new laws and lawsuits, and Fair Count, a second effort to ensure communities of color and other marginalized groups are counted in the upcoming national census and receive equal representation when Georgia redraws its state and federal legislative districts in 2021. On top of all that, there’s the not-so-insignificant question of whether Abrams will run for president in 2020. (She ruled out a bid for U.S. Senate.)
When Rolling Stone caught up with Abrams this week in Washington, D.C., her answer to the 2020 question hadn’t changed — she’s still considering it — but she was eager to talk about the lessons of her 2018 race (which saw her expand Georgia’s electorate and earn more votes than any other Democrat in state history), and how Democrats can win in red-turning-purple Sun Belt states like Georgia and Arizona.
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LA (Louisiana) is as much in play for us as LA (Los Angeles) is in play for the Repugs IMHO, in other words, not a chance
GA, NC, FL (especially those 3 if Abrams is the VP) and maybe AZ are the only 'stretch' states I have much hope for
As long as we nail down WI, MI, and PA there is almost no way we can lose the EC
We can lose FL, GA, AZ, NC, IA, MO, OH, ME 2nd District, NE 2nd (Omaha), and even NV and all the rest of the pretty red and ruby reds and still win as long as we win WI, MI, and PA.
We could even lose WI, but still win if we just keep NV and flip ME 2nd and NE 2nd (we have won them in the past, especially ME-2) If we flipped one of those two splits, it would be a tie, 269 to 269, and go to the House, where unfortunately we would probably lose, as there is one vote per state and the Rethugs control more delegations than us.
We could lose NV, WI, AND PA (we will surely take MI) and everything else listed,and still win the POTUS if we pull FL
I do NOT want it down to that cray cray
state ever again though
Yes for blue! 
