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aikoaiko

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6. "Everyone, including people of color, must be central to a winning strategy."

Reply to lapucelle (Original post)

Mon May 28, 2018, 11:31 AM

May 2018

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I'm not sure this is her strategy.

She appears to be partnering with Steve Phillips who explicitly wants Democrats to blow off the concept of white swing voters and focus on GOTV of people of color and white progressives.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/These-Bay-Area-activists-helped-Stacey-Abrams-win-12938715.php

This strategy is a good one for a Georgia Democratic primary, but it's going to be a close call in November.

I will admit that the centrist Democrat that won in GA in the 1980s and 1990s started to lose consistently in the 2000s and 2010s.

I'm voting for her, but I think the NY Mags take is way off base.

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"Stacey Abrams's Win Is Just the Beginning" [View all] lapucelle May 2018 OP

Yaasssss. Alethia Merritt May 2018 #1

GREAT article and one that is definitely worth reading! n/t CaliforniaPeggy May 2018 #2

K&R betsuni May 2018 #3

Yeah, all the BS about chasing "white voters" was at best a mis-direct... Wounded Bear May 2018 #4

Those GOP areas we need votes from for the House do not have a high concentration Demsrule86 May 2018 #11

K&R brer cat May 2018 #5

"Everyone, including people of color, must be central to a winning strategy." aikoaiko May 2018 #6

K&R ismnotwasm May 2018 #7

On the national level, the only voters that matter live in certain states oberliner May 2018 #8

"On the national level, the only voters that matter live in certain states"??? uppityperson May 2018 #10

Yes, exactly oberliner May 2018 #12

You say yes, exactly, to why vote. uppityperson May 2018 #14

Yes, I do oberliner May 2018 #15

I think discouraging people from voting by telling them their votes don't count is wrong uppityperson May 2018 #16

Agreed oberliner May 2018 #17

The 2016 presidential election was the first one held lapucelle May 2018 #19

I hope that is true. And I like Abrams...my sis who still lives in GA voted for her as did my Demsrule86 May 2018 #9

Abrams may turn Georgia blue Gothmog May 2018 #13

We flipped Nassau County blue this year, lapucelle May 2018 #20

K&R sheshe2 May 2018 #18

K&R ehrnst May 2018 #21

Pundits Schmundits.. Tuesday's results proved what #TeamAbrams already knew: Cha May 2018 #22