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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI was in Atlanta area today and saw a huge line of people waiting to vote.
The area is East Cobb near Marietta and is considered a somewhat liberal, blue area according to our local friend. I did see one moron carrying a sign to vote for Walker. He looked like he was missing a few chromosomes so I don't think he was very convincing.
The people we visited while here are very focused on voting to make sure Warnock will win.
I also saw some very good local ads on TV supporting Warnock. I am feeling cautiously optimistic about this election.
Fingers crossed!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Ty!
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Cobb County, GA is Somewhat liberal. In Cobb County, GA 56.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cobb county remained strongly Democratic, 56.3% to 42.0%.
Cobb county voted Democratic in 2020 and 2016, after voting Republican in the previous four elections
https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/zip-code/georgia/marietta/30062
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Ty for sharing!
Pinback
(12,134 posts)It was an affluent white suburb, home to Newt Gingrichs office. Its very nice to see the change. Most likely the result of white flight as the Atlanta suburbs have become more diverse, and the racists have had to move farther out in search of lily-white enclaves.
oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)But I wouldnt call them all racists either.
Pinback
(12,134 posts)-- and they often skew more liberal.
These articles describe the shifts that have moved the GOP focus to the northern counties:
- Christian Science Monitor, 12/12/2022
When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp made one of his first general election campaign swings in August, he went straight to the modern heartland of the states Republican Party.
It wasnt Buckhead, the glitzy Atlanta neighborhood where Governor Kemp lives in a governors mansion dwarfed by other nearby estates. And it wasnt suburban Cobb County, once the bastion of Newt Gingrich.
Instead, Governor Kemp kept going north, deep into the Georgia mountains that have become one of the most Republican areas in the country over the past three decades. He stopped at a gas station turned coffee shop in Toccoa to urge people to turn out an even bigger vote here in this county and in northeast Georgia than weve ever seen before.
Ask your kids, your grandkids, your friends kid, are they registered to vote? Governor Kemp told attendees. If theyre eligible, and theyre not, we got to get them registered, and weve got to go tell them to pull it for the home team.
The emphasis on this rural region represents a notable shift in the GOPs strategy in Georgia. The party grew into a powerhouse in Georgia once it began combining a strong performance in the Atlanta suburbs with growing dominance in rural areas. But that coalition has frayed in recent years as voters in the booming Atlanta region rejected the GOP under former President Donald Trump, turning this one time Republican stronghold into the Souths premier swing state.
- https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0912/Shifting-demographics-in-suburban-Atlanta-prompt-GOP-to-head-north
- ABC News, 11/20/2019
Atlanta, host of the fifth Democratic debate, is a rapidly growing example of what is becoming a trend among the South: the great reverse migration.
In the midst of this change, statewide Democrats saw unprecedented success in the 2018 midterms, flipping fourteen state legislative seats in the House and two in the Senate.
Part of that success, experts say, can be credited to the growth of the black voting-age population in Atlanta and the surrounding suburbs.
Data compiled by Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, of 2018 census population estimates, shows that seven of the 10 counties with the fastest-growing black population are near Atlanta. In the last decade, the region has seen a 14 percent increase in black voting-age residents, compared with a three percent rise for white residents, according to research compiled by William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, from the Current Population Survey.
- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/atlanta-reverse-migration-beginning-skew-suburbs-blue/story?id=67106895
yankee87
(2,077 posts)I cant believe this change. Loved in Towne Lake for about 10 years in the early 2000s and Cobb County was solid Republican. Heck that was Newt Gingrich was elected. So glad it changed. Now maybe Towne Lake and all of Woodstock can change. Here is to a Warnick victory.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)her sorry butt from Alpharetta to Rome to run in GA-14. When you're too much of a flake for Newt's old district...
republianmushroom
(13,056 posts)Cha
(295,907 posts)From on the ground, honest abe!
We drove through Marietta GA in 2008 on our way to the Blue Ridge Mt in GA.
I remember a natural food store with the most beautiful rows and rows of organic fruits and vegetables!!
onetexan
(12,994 posts)oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)Oddly enough NO public trump support since the election day
DemocraticPatriot
(4,170 posts)to keep his mouth shut, and STAY OUT of Georgia!!
LMAO
oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)Because its always about HIM
TheBlackAdder
(28,073 posts).
These fucking states that make it onerous to vote should have the election people brought up on charges.
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SunSeeker
(51,368 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,170 posts)was in 2008 for Obama, in Lansing, Michigan....
In that case, I rejoiced over the wait!
Afterwards, all the young brothers were wearing their 'Obama' T-shirts on the bus,
and a very attractive young girl complimented me on my own T-shirt, which said "Liberal".
I told her, "I thought today was the day to wear it," and she smiled at me again.
SunSeeker
(51,368 posts)ga_girl
(182 posts)The line was nearly out of the parking lot all day and didn't shorten until about 6:30 PM. Thankfully did not extend past 7 PM.
Heavily Majority-Minority voters, which is becoming the norm for Gwinnett. I don't have a count of voters.
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)The signs look good so far!
David__77
(23,218 posts)Good for people to vote, bad that lines are long since that indicates insufficient facilities.
oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)But on election day they ALL are. Ive never waited more than about 15 mins on Election Day & THAT time was back in the early 90s before we had early voting. To be fair, I live in a city of about 70k so there's probably a difference from the really big cities
Pacifist Patriot
(24,647 posts)Lived there from 82-91 (off at college for four of those years). Never thought I'd see the day. Coolness