Here in Georgia, Democrats thought they had a couple of real ringers - Nunn (who unceremoniously dumped her husband’s last name) and Carter (grandson of the second worst US President).
They COUNTED on those names conjuring up all the old white people predisposed to voting Democrat and getting them out in droves. Nunn even hugged Obama! Carter flashed his teeth. They counted on that good-ole black vote.
Demographics. Georgia has a 8.1% unemployment rate, a couple points higher even than the fake national average. That’s because 31.4% of its population is black (US Census 2013) where the national average is 13.2%.
When you have a government that encourages high entitlement rates (see southeast Georgia, eastern central Georgia and the Atlanta Fulton/DeKalb areas where SNAP is up to 40% in some areas) does nothing national to affect creation of real jobs; lies, cheats and steals money from hard working people; and then tries to tell you a petty dictator is your savior, why in the hell would you vote for them.
To me, this whole Nunn/Carter thing was like reconstruction after the Civil War......wholesale damage and destruction, no jobs, endangered entitlements, bad economy, and then you have the same people come back in who caused it all telling blacks to “do it again” - put them in office.
Nunn/Carter lost stunningly, IMO - no runoffs. They lost because their old white Democrat plantation owners are dead or dying, they lost because whites know better, they lost because blacks finally got tired of Obama and won’t stand up for him, and they lost because of their dead-and-embalmed ideology.
In the article they call them "legacy candidates" - that the Democratic Party believed (or it was all that they had) their connection to the past would bring out the necessary votes to push them to victory. Fail. Now the Left wants to try this "legacy" thing on the national stage with Hillary. They will close ranks and do everything and anything to get her elected.
David Horowitz (June 2000) wrote a great piece that still holds up today:
The national news constantly insisted Nunn and Carter were neck and neck in their respective races. And a runoff was assured for Nunn.
An out of state friend asked me about it, and I told him it wasn’t even close. There would be lots of cheating in Atlanta (Nunn and her 50,000 fake new voters the judge threw out, etc.) but the state was overwhelmingly against anything that smelled of 0bama.
The news really tried to direct this election, glad the real voters ignored them.
From the time these two mental midgets announced their candidacies we were treated to weekly and then daily polling showing that they had huge leads over their opponents.
Suddenly, two weeks from actual election day (we have early voting, ID check and all...!), the reported polls mysteriously flipped and the "closer to real" numbers were reported.
The results were still way beyond what even the last polls were showing...
It was a joy to see them go down in huge defeat...including the alleged "democrat conservative" Barrow in South Georgia.