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Glad we left 20 years ago.
Horse hockey! The democrats have learned to scam elections and control all of the legal systems! That's what happened.....
Welcome to New Jersey.
Why do I say that ? Because places like Georgia, Virginia and North Carolina are going through what we went through in the 1980’s. New Jersey was once a Republican state and in many areas deep red Conservative.
Republicans dug their own graves in a way. The constant push for more and more development (business & residential) along with tax breaks to developers led to rampant building and influxes of huge numbers of new residents (many coming from the New York City area. This coupled with large numbers of immigrants from Asia really changed the dynamic politically over time. I have nothing against people moving and immigrating but their social and political views were quite alien to old Jersey. It took a couple of decades but now these same people and their kids basically call the shots here and they are largely democrat leaning.
To make matters worse the still Conservative rural areas are completely blown away at election time by the densely populated urban and suburban regions. Now that democrats control the legislature, they amend voting districts to dilute the Republican strongholds by adding liberal urban or suburban precincts. Scott Garrett congressman from NW New Jersey was one of the most conservative members of Congress and very popular in his district but during redistricting, his district was diluted by adding much more liberal areas far to the east. He is now a former congressman.
Va, NC & Ga are seeing the same thing happen now. Rapidly expanding suburbs attract people with different values and given enough time they radically shift the political dynamic. The state’s economic successes eventually punish the people who originally made it happen.
If it were a blue state, Republicans wouldn't have still won easily at the state level.
Bull! Georgia is a red state with two blue senators. If you want to know how this happened, his name is Donald and he lives in Florida.
Any other Republican candidate would’ve waltzed across the finish line with Brian Kemp.
It's been trending that way for while.
Blue state = more free stuff. Too many GA residents want more free stuff, even at the expense of their freedom.
Except the GOP won every other statewide race in Georgia in 2022 and Kemp himself received the highest percentage of the vote for any gubernatorial candidate in the state since Sonny Perdue in 2006. Maybe the problem was Walker?
Not at all— but there are large population centers, corrupt as hell and they are “blue” Fulton, Cobb counties for example.
A lot will be happening TO Brian Kemp. and that a@@hole Chinese tool Raffensberger Sec. State.
No, Georgia is not a blue state. Evil people, both democrat and republican, threw everything awful they had at Herschel Walker and he still barely lost in a runoff that had phenomenal turnout.
The current Georgia Lt. Governor plus the current Georgia Secretary of Agriculture (a man whose 13.3% in the Republican primary was a far second place to Walker’s 68%.2) appeared in a TV ad against Walker and it was aired over and over.
These Georgia Republican so-called leaders negated the voice of Republican voters in Georgia with their own vindictiveness, sour grapes, and entitled attitudes.
This has to end. “Leaders” are not the ones to pick, the voters are. I voted for Walker in the primary, in the general, and in the runoff. I donated to his campaign. All my meager efforts didn’t stand a chance against a constantly aired commercial featuring GA Republican statewide office holders urging the state to NOT vote for our 68.2% nominee.
This is what really pizzes me off.