Is it time to resurrect the "Georgia will go blue" threads from 2008? (live in, office)

[Saintmarks]

Georgia (and much of the rest of the country) going much more red.

House Map - Election Results 2010 - The New York Times

[cityrover]

It doesn't matter if they go pink... The only local race i cared for was the gobernatorial.

If the choices weren't appaling enough, the result is inconceivable. If this is the best we can put on the ballot... aaagh let me out of here.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by Saintmarks

Georgia (and much of the rest of the country) going much more red.

House Map - Election Results 2010 - The New York Times

Sure ... people are voting against the current party in power. Not a surprise.

[Saintmarks]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

Sure ... people are voting against the current party in power. Not a surprise.

There were numerous threads on here after the 2008 election of Georgia going blue, the south going blue, red states were done for, etc, etc. I posted on many of them that politics goes back and forth, that America is a center/right country and the 2008 election was a swing and the pendulum would come back.

Feel like digging them up and reposting them, my responses that is.

[FlyiMetro]

Is this a good or bad thing for Georgia?

[jhtrico1850]

This is an abomination. If the scandals every year aren't enough, I wonder when if ever the tide will turn...

[K-SawDude]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

Sure ... people are voting against the current party in power. Not a surprise.

Except that in Georgia--defying all the logic you lay out here--voters DIDN'T vote against "the party in power." Republicans have been running the show here over the last decade, and now there's even a stronger one party dominance here.

If this is really all about Barack Obama, Georgia voters just aren't thinking very clearly IMO.

Not that Barnes was great, but Deal is an awfully flawed candidate. And the Republican party hasn't done all that great a job managing the state's finances in recent years.

[afonega1]

This state just stepped back in time thats all i can say.I have no problem with a Republican wining office but THIS one(Deal) is a racist crook.People in this state for for the most inept people for the worst reasons.Most of those reasons are run solely by insecure that more are less think individually about their future instead of the futures of the entire state and whats best for the state.I hate extremes.I dont like Newt Gingrich,Ralph Reed,and "No Good Deal".Thats the same for Nancy Pelosi,Henry Reid.Un compromising people with bigger egos than whats good for everyone.
Im sick to say I live in Georgia under this governor.

[LovinDecatur]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

Sure ... people are voting against the current party in power. Not a surprise.

Yes, which is typical of a midterm election...what is atypical is the unprecedented magnitude of the swing. It is a complete rebuke of the President's policies and the unbridled hubris of a Congress that has at every turn thwarted the will and desires of the people that it was elected to serve.
The Republicans should not be breathing a sigh of relief just yet. They are clearly still on probation.

[suprascooby22]

Originally Posted by Saintmarks

Georgia (and much of the rest of the country) going much more red.

House Map - Election Results 2010 - The New York Times

Is there even a Democrat party in this state or the South anymore? I have said it before and I will say it again, the ONLY place a Democrat can win in this region is in a black district.