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Georgia's voters become more diverse ahead of this year's election
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^
| 10/25/18
| Mark Niesse and Jennifer Peebles
Posted on 10/30/2018 11:00:46 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX
Yes, but a larger and growing percentage refuse to identify their race. Which group is most likely to do that? White people.
To: drpix
To: riverdawg
True....but Isackson is old. If he dies in office, the governor gets to appoint his replacement.
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10/30/2018 12:03:40 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
(SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
To: higgmeister
I don’t think that translates to local Republican votes with a black candidate on the ballot. I hope I’m wrong, and that measurable numbers of blacks learned from the Obama years. But I’m not counting on it.
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10/30/2018 1:09:08 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: arista
[As 90-95% of blacks vote democrat, as do 70% of Latinos and Asians, the more racial diversity we have, the more elections become simply a racial head count, as opposed to a contest of ideas.]
It will change. The problem is that it will take a *long* time. For a good 100 years after they showed up en masse, starting in the 1870’s, Italians provided a fairly reliable super-majority of their votes for the Dems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Americans#Politics That is why we need to stanch the flood of new immigrants immediately, the way it was halted in the 1920’s. That pause gave the GOP the breathing room it needed to recover in the voting booth. Over time, the children of immigrants assimilate by sleeping with the enemy (i.e. marrying the offspring of native-born Americans). But that process takes many decades, as the political history of Italian-Americans demonstrates.
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10/30/2018 1:20:25 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: riverdawg
As long as the Georgia state legislature remains Republican, not much will change. The governor in Georgia can use the pocket veto under some circumstances to thwart the will of the legislature, which the present outgoing governor occasionally used, but does not have sweeping powers to order Medicaid expansion, for example, or make other sweeping changes.That's very good to know, thank you!
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10/30/2018 1:49:55 PM PDT
by
BlackbirdSST
(Apparently I voted demoncrat for 40 years. They all wore 'R' jerseys! 'R'atpublicans!)
To: ExTexasRedhead
The problem is that the Dems not only pay them to attend rallies and to protest Republicans - but they also have and will continue to pay them to vote.
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10/30/2018 5:00:13 PM PDT
by
drpix
To: dljordan
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10/31/2018 3:33:34 PM PDT
by
Pining_4_TX
(..Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you.. Joshua 1:9)
To: ealgeone
“True....but Isackson is old. If he dies in office, the governor gets to appoint his replacement.”
Good point; I had forgotten about that.
To: riverdawg
As voting for Trump to me was really a vote for SCOTUS a vote for Kemp is really a vote for a potential Senator.
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11/01/2018 8:23:08 AM PDT
by
ealgeone
(SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
To: Pining_4_TX
I dont really believe any poll put out by the AJC. There are many more black conservative business owners in Atlanta than the AJC would care to admit.
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