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sandensea

(21,604 posts)
Fri Nov 6, 2020, 04:16 PM Nov 2020

Democrat Bourdeaux flips Georgia House district

Source: AP

Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux has flipped a suburban Atlanta congressional district, defeating Republican Rich McCormick.

Counting of absentee ballots and in-person votes cast early continued long past election night, forcing a tense wait before the race could be called.

Bourdeaux, 50, had come close to winning in 2018, falling fewer than 500 votes short of defeating Republican incumbent Rob Woodall in that race.

Woodall didn’t seek another term in the district northeast of Atlanta.

Bourdeaux is a college professor who previously worked in government. She emphasized expanded health care in her campaign and used the momentum she built two years ago to push past McCormick, an emergency room physician and Marine veteran making his first-ever bid for office.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-stacey-abrams-georgia-70bae5e37036c65f6da0db832871f2e4





Congresswoman-elect Carolyn Bourdeaux: Second time's the charm
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Welcome GA! ffr Nov 2020 #1
K&R ck4829 Nov 2020 #2
This is great news mahina Nov 2020 #3
AWESOME!!! bluestarone Nov 2020 #4
This is encouraging! lagomorph777 Nov 2020 #5
YES!! Owl Nov 2020 #6
KR! Cha Nov 2020 #7

mahina

(17,625 posts)
3. This is great news
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 12:22 PM
Nov 2020

We need lots more like this. Has anybody seen a good location to find where we stand on individual states legislatures?

I recall the Republicans were recently two away from the thirds majority needed to amend the constitution. I sure would like to see us return to the majority there. Citizens United and similar rulings in mind.

So I’m off to Googleville

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