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Georgia's GOP Challenge: Persuading Trump Backers to Vote
Access WDUN ^ | 10/24/2022 | Associated Press

Posted on 10/24/2022 3:38:53 AM PDT by Blueflag

Laughable article from the Associated Press, trying to sell the idea that GOP (i.e. conservatives) are reluctant to vote.

Oh please, here in GA the Reds have shown record turnout in early voting.

The fact people didn't respond enthusiastically to Kelly Loeffler and crew is NOT any indication of low energy.

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — On a crisp fall morning, eager volunteers fanned out in the leafy suburban Atlanta neighborhood to knock on doors, trying to persuade reluctant and skeptical conservatives to register to vote in next month's midterm elections.

It’s painstaking work anywhere, but especially pivotal in battleground Georgia, as Donald Trump's lies of a rigged 2020 election have created a new constituency of election deniers -- some wary their votes won't be counted in November.

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MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — On a crisp fall morning, eager volunteers fanned out in the leafy suburban Atlanta neighborhood to knock on doors, trying to persuade reluctant and skeptical conservatives to register to vote in next month's midterm elections.

It’s painstaking work anywhere, but especially pivotal in battleground Georgia, as Donald Trump's lies of a rigged 2020 election have created a new constituency of election deniers -- some wary their votes won't be counted in November.

1 posted on 10/24/2022 3:38:53 AM PDT by Blueflag
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To: Blueflag

Note the open bias in the 2nd paragraph.

AP does what it does as it strives to rival PRAVDA.


2 posted on 10/24/2022 3:42:12 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: Blueflag

If I were still a Georgia resident, I’d leave the governor and secretary of state offices blank on my ballot but I’d damn sure show up to vote for Herschel Walker and any and other MAGA Republicans on the ballot.


3 posted on 10/24/2022 3:43:28 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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If I were still a Georgia resident, I’d leave the governor and secretary of state offices blank

Looking at the current Republican Senate my guess is that most of them didn't vote for Trump in either time. If I had the time and inclination I could grab a dozen headlines that show exactly that starting with Lindsey Graham in 2016. And now the GOP wants to know what is wrong?

4 posted on 10/24/2022 3:57:06 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: FLT-bird

And that’s how we might get The Tank. It’s terribly flawed reasoning.


5 posted on 10/24/2022 4:17:32 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Blueflag

There is a lot of Republican motivation in Georgia. Some f my friends have already voted others can’t wait! Kemp is well ahead of Abrams and Walker is tied with Warnock.


6 posted on 10/24/2022 4:32:47 AM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Countr)
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To: FLT-bird

Exactly what I plan on doing. Same for AG. Carr is just as big a POS as Kemp and Raffensberger.

Jones and Walker. After that, I have not a care.


7 posted on 10/24/2022 4:52:56 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: FreedomPoster

And if you look at major economic issues for the state:

Tax breaks for Hollywood and other liberal companies, there is no difference between kemp and Abrams. Both are more than happy to sell out Georgia. Kemp does it in secret, smiles and stabs us all in the backnn


8 posted on 10/24/2022 4:54:39 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Blueflag

Why are suburbs always “leafy”? Another fake media cliché. Like when busses always plunge into ravines, they never just fall.


9 posted on 10/24/2022 5:22:10 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: FreedomPoster

And that’s how we might get The Tank. It’s terribly flawed reasoning.

I know. I was telling another poster that the days of replacing RINO pukes like Lowell Weicker with Joe Lieberman are long gone. They may be RINO pukes but every Dem is a crazed lunatic.


10 posted on 10/24/2022 5:25:07 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: FreedomPoster

I’m not voting for RINOs....ever again.

They must be driven out at all costs. Unless and until we match them for ruthlessness they will win because they will keep stabbing us in the back and then counting on us to hold our noses and vote for them after looking at the alternative.

No.

No more. They’re just the Democrat Party’s cat’s paw. We need a REAL opposition party in this country - whatever it takes to get that.


11 posted on 10/24/2022 5:29:34 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: rxh4n1

Couple thoughts:

1. the reporter probably lives in the city and aside from small parks and a few growing in concrete containers streetside, trees are the exception. In Atlanta, there are two types of residents - ITP and OTP (insider the 285 perimeter and outside the 285 perimeter.) Betcha this writer is an ITP person for whom tress are a notable environment. Marietta is indeed OTP. My guess is that the team of door knockers didn’t encounter many Trump supporters reluctant to vote, but rather a lot of fed-up conservatives disinterested in speaking with Kelly Loeffler for a GOPe photo-op. All of them had more interesting things to do.

2. Atlanta is known as the City of Trees. If you fly into ATL you can see this from the air. So yeah, if you venture farther than your downtown condo, Starbucks and the Amazon Fresh store, you’ll experience “leafy.”


12 posted on 10/24/2022 5:38:55 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: Blueflag

There’s a possibility this time around - crazy Lin Wood hasn’t been heard from. That improves the odds a bit.


13 posted on 10/24/2022 5:41:28 AM PDT by Fury
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Lies of a rigged 2020 election (Associalist Press)

OK, if somebody can adequately explain why counting centers in 5 states shut down (amazingly, Philly actually stayed open) on Nov. 3-4, and if they can prove that nothing untoward actually went on during that time, AND if they can adequately explain all the statistical anomalies that showed up, maybe there wouldn’t be as many “election deniers.”


14 posted on 10/24/2022 5:43:42 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Fury

Indeed. Is he out of jail and financially solvent? ;-)

/ s


15 posted on 10/24/2022 5:47:26 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: FLT-bird; BobL

Better to have Governor Ding Dong than a fat racist and probable neo-Marxist who keeps claiming her own election was stolen in 2018.

The secretary of state is the one upon whom the true wrath should be poured, but only if you know that the Democrat nominee is not a vote-rigging Communist.


16 posted on 10/24/2022 5:47:32 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: qaz123

I’m guessing that if she wins, whatever Kemp’s problems are, every decent populated area in Georgia will become as crime-riddled as the city of Buckhead.


17 posted on 10/24/2022 5:51:17 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I always qualify my remarks: I am a certified GA vote official (just not able to work this election cycle.)

I can so swear and attest that it is REALLY hard to cause a cheat at a polling site IF GA PROCEDURES ARE FOLLOWED and the LAWS ARE ENFORCED. There are good electronic checks and balances between the check-in system and the vote tabulation (scanners) and documentation system and processes.

LEGALLY you simply cannot close your poll for the day or submit total vote counts and ballots - across early and election day - unless ALL the numbers match between two separate systems (and databases) AND your hourly count. EVEN IF YOU ACT ILLEGALLY, there’s NO WAY to keep scanning preferred ballots over and over and have those numbers match up to the voter intake system and the hourly counts. CHEATING would have to be across the board and deliberately enabled/ignored to cheat at a local polling site. It’s so hard to do, I doubt it happened there.

WHERE *I* believe the cheat went deep and wide was in the Ga Dome (Fulton County) and in the mail-in/absentee ‘no-chain-of-custody’ and ‘no-oversight’ sh!t that was ALLOWED to occur after hours, without public witnesses. Gwinnett and DeKalb also used similar means, but not nearly as blatantly. 2000 mules only showed the outside events, not the inside-the-room events. It disgusted me that was allowed to occur.

NET: Metro Atlanta is a vote-integrity graveyard.


18 posted on 10/24/2022 6:04:05 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: FLT-bird

I held my nose and voted for Kemp but I wrote Jody Hice in for Secretary of State!!


19 posted on 10/24/2022 6:10:14 AM PDT by southernerwithanattitude (New and Improved Redneck!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Both parts of the Ga state gummint are solidly Republican. Stacy can’t effect many of her desired policies unless the house and senate fund them. Also the local counties and communities can tell the Gov to buzz off.

The Dem-aligned counties around the cities of Atlanta, Athens, Augusta and to some extent Savannah would try to become Portland, but little else.

*IF* Abrams gets elected and can enact her policies to much any degree, she’ll be a one term governor. Then she’ll run for Prez as a victim (of racism, sexism and every other ism) as the next Michelle O. And lose there as well.


20 posted on 10/24/2022 6:11:06 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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