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Open thread. What’s going to happen? So far looks good … this feels like one of those creaky wooden roller-coaster rides. Again.

The only thing I think I know is this: Stacey Abrams has done it right, and from the ground up, relationally, organically. Yes there are a zillion dollars being spent, but there are some problems in politics money can’t solve. And from out of state … we can’t want it more than they do. But … maybe they want it? Will Georgia become the new Virginia?

 

 

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  1. I think it could be the new VA, but at this writing 75% of the votes are in and both races stand at about 50/50.

      • The remaining 3% of the vote to be counted is about 80/20 urban to rural, which should bode well for the two Democrats. AP declared Warnock a winner. Love his background and story and he’s a potential national leader down the line.

        The most effective emerging leader in the party was not running for office this year. Stacey Abrams deserves all the praise and then some. This article is worth reading and its instructive on how she built a foundation brick by brick to deliver results. The $100 million dumped on Jamie Harrison and Amy McGrath, on Beto’ and Gillum, would be best spent building 50 credible state parties along her lines. Starting with FL, NC, and TX. We cannot have more blue senators without more blue states, and this is the long term play that yields results. A blue Georgia, perhaps led by Gov. Stacey Abrams in two years time.

        https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/us/politics/stacey-abrams-georgia.html

        • Also a nice valedictory for Ossoff, who was all but written off after his House loss in 2017. He’s become a much sharper and better defined candidate. It’ll be nice to have a Senator who is my age for a change and he’s making history in his own right as the first Jew and non-Christian elected to the Senate from the Deep South.

  2. Wow, voter turnout….who knew? Stacey Abrams knew, but then again, so did Scott Brown who, unlike his Democratic opponent, did not take a vacation in the days between the primary and general election.

    How do we increase voter turnout? Again, Abrams and Brown knew how. You need to get people excited. You need a simple unifying message.

    “Fair Fight” works across demographics, as does the symbolism of a barn jacket and a dad in a pickup truck. Of course, “Make America Great Again” worked too.

    What will be the simple unifying message Democrats in Massachusetts can use to increase our voter turnout?

    • “Make Massachusetts Democratic Again”?

      Accompanied by a pretty baby-blue hat … 🙂

      • I never needed my education past junior high in order to find suitable employment, but I went on to college, some post grad studies, and even now, read, “take” courses on line lectures……just for the enjoyment and personal enrichment. The idea of learning primarily for financial gain is something that I find to be revulsive.

        • You are fortunate that you have the luxury of being able to be revulsed by “learning primarily for financial gain”. You will never know much you actually benefited from being college-educated, male, and white. The fact that you didn’t knowingly seek to exploit those benefits in no way changes their profound impact. A black woman living through the same period would, statistically speaking, be FAR behind you at this stage in her life.

          You didn’t need to escape the ghetto. You didn’t need to escape the consequences of being black in the 1950s and 1960s.

          Your own life experience apparently hurts, rather than helps, your ability to appreciate how fortunate you were.

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