I live in Georgia. Stacey Abraham is a corporate fraud who denied Tara reade in defense of joe biden using sources such as the nyt. Then the New York Times said they didn’t absolve joe biden of guilt and that she was full of shit basically and she got a head pat from pedo joe. She is not a fighter she is a career politician who literally runs a democratic super PAC. Fuck this asshole shes never going to win by sucking off the corporate teet in a place like georgia, only an actual leftist would win the governorship promising legal weed universal healthcare free college 15 dollar minimum wage. That candidate would destroy Brian kemp.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    Republicans will be way more motivated than Dems

    Maybe. Trump was a huge boost to participation between 2018 and 2020. He's not on the ballot in 2022. He's not even on Twitter.

    Off-years always suck for the Presidential incumbent, and Dems are practically guaranteed to lose Congress. But that's going to be thanks to the baseline R/D polling split. It's got nothing to do with Trump-mentum. If anything, I think Republicans clawing at each other in the primary and competing for the QAnon vote will further undermine their own decrypt scam-filled establishment.

    People really do overestimate how successful the GOP is at organizing people. They're just as bad as the Democrats and float just as many turd-ass candidates and grifter campaigns.

    • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Kemp signed into law SB202 which, according to Fair Fight / NYT analysis, severely constrains the exact voters that Abrams would need to win. The GOP's strategy seems to depend more on suppression / cheating, than within organizing people. What can Abrams do in return? She doesn't have Obama's oratory skills to sell the same hollow Democrat platform.

      I think voters will realize that Biden / the Dems didn't do a damn thing except tell people to get vaccines more often than Trump did. Abrams is going to be the avatar of Dems that have given almost nothing to their base, after years of allowing them to see Biden get clowned by Manchin. It's far too early to say, but I don't think her expensive super PACs will be able to overshadow these things.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        The GOP’s strategy seems to depend more on suppression / cheating, than within organizing people. What can Abrams do in return? She doesn’t have Obama’s oratory skills to sell the same hollow Democrat platform.

        She doesn't need them. She's building up a political machine not just a brand. What she needs is the Atlanta mayorship and city council to resist implementation of SB202 and undercut its impact in her territory.

        I think voters will realize that Biden / the Dems didn’t do a damn thing except tell people to get vaccines more often than Trump did.

        Nationally, I think you're right. And 2022 will suck for Democrats nationally. But Abrams isn't operating nationally. She's not married to the Biden brand, either. So she can continue to run on a progressive message while calling Kemp an obstructionist. And I'm confident Kemp will fill that role neatly.

        Abrams is going to be the avatar of Dems that have given almost nothing to their base

        Abrams is comfortably distanced from the DC shitshow. And when Biden collapses on himself, she'll be in a great position to move in as the Next Thing. If she can take the Georgia governor's mansion, she might even be able to deliver on some shit that Sleepy Joe can't be bothered with.

        She's hardly a shoe-in, but the notion that Democrat voters have just vanished off the face of the earth between 2020 and 2022 is as absurd as assuming Trump voters did the same. It'll be a low-turnout "everyone sucks" year, and folks like Abrams - who have a committed base that mechanically Souls To The Polls - every two years, are in a stronger position than you give them credit.