Georgia is a swing state in 2020

[RandySF]

Indeed, Georgia was more competitive in the 2018 midterms than it had been in any midterm election in a generation. Democrats won 49% of the vote in the governor, attorney general and secretary of state races. US House Democrats combined to win 48% of the statewide vote, which was their highest share in a midterm since 1990.

Georgia's move to the left makes a lot of sense when you look at how the state and the nation's demographic and electoral winds have shifted.

First, black voters have increased their power significantly over the last two decades in Georgia. In November 2000, the Georgia secretary of state reported that black voters made up 25% of all registered voters for whom race and ethnicity was known. Currently, black voters are 33% of all voters for whom race and ethnicity is known. According to the Census Bureau, no state in the nation has seen a larger increase from 2000 to 2018 in the share blacks make up of the citizen voting age population than Georgia. Blacks, of course, are the most Democratic ethnic or racial bloc in the entire electorate.

Second, a lot of the white voters in Georgia have a college degree. This is a group moving to the left nationally. Georgia is in the top half in the nation for the percentage that whites with a college degree make up of both eligible white voters and likely 2020 white voters, according to the Census Bureau and a projection by The New York Times' Nate Cohn using government data. That's unlike every other deep southern state and every state that flipped from Barack Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016.

Moreover, there's a lot of room for Democrats to grow among college whites in Georgia. In the 2018 governor's race for example, Stacey Abrams lost college educated whites by around 20 points -- but Democrats actually won them in the nationwide House vote.



https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/23/politics/georgia-2020-election/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&utm_term=image&utm_content=2020-05-24T02%3A16%3A02&utm_medium=social

[elleng]

1. Nice, but

seriously crooked governor (as are many of them.)

[kimbutgar]

2. I'm not counting on Georgia

Because of the crooked governor.

He is a textbook example of a republican self serving governor.

[sandensea]

3. And ballot stuffer

Kemp's the kind that, in the 1950s, would've filled the voter registry with names from tombstones - and then "found" boxes full of ballots (mostly for him, of course) behind some church pew.

He would've yelled "praise the Lawd!" as he did so.

[Laelth]

4. Wisdom, Justice, Moderation, Constitution.

Go Georgia, my home.

We were the state that said that the Civil War was a bad idea and that we should not do it. The Confederaracy made a Georgian, Alexander Stevens, Vice President of the Confederacy, to appease those who opposed the Civil War. Georgia gave the United States one president, James Earl Carter, Jr., and he was a democrat.

Don’t forget Georgia. It can and will go blue. It’s just a matter of time.

-Laelth