Biden Leads In Georgia

[applegrove]

Biden Leads In Georgia

July 22, 2020 at 12:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 191 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/22/biden-leads-in-georgia-2/

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A new Garin-Hart-Yang (D) poll in Georgia finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 47% to 43%.

In the U.S. Senate race, Jon Ossof (D) is just ahead of Sen. David Perdue (R), 45% to 44%.

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[calguy]

1. All great news

We can't take the pedal off the gas. Polls usually go up and down during the course of the campaign which hasn't really started in earnest yet. I won't feel great until I see these poll numbers reflected in the vote on November 4

[jpak]

2. How 'bout them Dawgs!

[CottonBear]

16. Sic 'em! Woof, woof, woof!

The last gubernatorial election was outright stolen from Abrams, and Georgia Democrats will never forget what KKKemp did. I am committed to help GOTV here in GA in November 2020.

Unfortunately, we are stuck with Governor KKKEMP until 2022. After this November, we can concentrate on retaking the office of Governor and the state house and senate.

[OrlandoDem2]

3. This is great news but rebuild the Blue Wall first. Then focus on

FL, NC, IA, and AZ

Then TX and GA.

If we can’t retake WI, PA, and MI, then we aren’t taking the others.

[Skya Rhen]

4. True but we need those 2 Senate seats in Georgia to regain control and pass some vital legislation.

[rpannier]

15. I think Michigan is a done deal in two words

Auto Bailout -- Saved a lot of jobs
Also, my cousin (lives in Illinois) has said that rank-and-file members trust Biden to be pro-Union. They didn't feel that way with Clinton

[edhopper]

5. This is great

But Kemp will fix it for Trump. Georgia will not have a fair election.

[Demsrule86]

7. It is a national election...not so easy to fix.

[RhodeIslandOne]

9. States manage their own voting, regardless of it being a federal election

And considering the national level is controlled by you know who, they are no help either.

[edhopper]

10. He fixed his own election

he won by cheating, he will do it again.
It's easy, stop a few of the right people from voting, close a few polling places in the right area. And you win, no matter who the voters want.

[Hoyt]

11. Not if electorate votes by mail or early. Georgia actually has some decent voting laws -- no excuse

absentee (essentially voting by mail), almost 30 days of early voting, on-line registration and checking registration, on-line checking if mail in ballot received, etc.

Sadly, the two counties that seem to have the biggest problems on the last day are counties controlled by Democrats. I hope they get it together this year. That actually ticks me off, because we can do better than that.

[CottonBear]

17. Having absentee and early voting virtually eliminates the need to go to the polls on Election Day.

I have voted on election day in Georgia only once in the last five primary and general elections. I voted absentee for the first time in the most recent election. Prior to COVID19, I was voting early in person. Our county has had two early voting sites in past elections.

I will be voting by absentee ballot again in November. I dropped off my ballot at one of the five local ballot collection boxes in my county. I was sure my ballot was delivered and I didn’t have to go inside a building!

I think that the GOTV push should emphasize absentee and early voting as the primary way to vote. If anything is amiss with one’s absentee ballot, you can go to an early voting site, have your absentee ballot choice changed to in-person and then cast your ballot in-person.

🗳

[Hoyt]

18. Good point about being able to switch to in-person if absentee ballot is amiss.

In 2004 -- Kerry-bush -- I stood in line with a bunch of rubes for 6 hours. The following year no-excuse absentee voting was approved and I have used it every time except once when I waited too late to request my ballot. Voted early that time.

Agree, Georgia Democrats should be pushing vote by mail, using no-excuse absentee ballots.

[CottonBear]

19. The Republican GA SOS will NOT be automatically mailing ballot applications for Nov.

So, we need to get Democratic voters to request absentee ballot applications in plenty of time to fill them out and return them to get their ballots in the mail well in advance of any deadlines.

[lagomorph777]

6. Kemp's using COVID to try to kill city dwellers.

And city dwellers aren't going to let his cronies get away with it.

[RhodeIslandOne]

8. Too bad the state is rigged

By the guv who rigged his own appointment.

[disndat]

12. Of course we shouldn't

be complacent, but with the whole Biden team working with Obama's enormous and vast input, maybe we have a chance

[Awsi Dooger]

13. Atlanta is growing very fast

That's a contributing factor toward Georgia becoming a legitimate opportunity. I like to focus on only a handful of variables. Texas also has many rapidly growing larger cities:

https://atlanta.curbed.com/2020/3/31/21200613/atlanta-metro-population-census-data-growth

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2020/demo/fastest-growing-cities-2010-2019.html

[crickets]

14. Great news! K&R for visibility.