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Common across the U.S. State legislatures create law, governors sign them. Your purpose in responding was to trash a particular candidate, nothing less.
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Originally Posted by Ringo1
Brian Kemp is following the law HE created if you are referring to the 'data match' program. Of course, he should recuse himself as SOS regarding any ballot issue since he is also running.
But I think we can count on Brian Kemp to do the wrong thing.
Common across the U.S. State legislatures create law, governors sign them. Your purpose in responding was to trash a particular candidate, nothing less.
What Kemp does stinks to high heaven, it's pretty clear I support liberal candidates, but I would be screaming at any one of them to step down in this case.
The thing to remember about Georgia is a runoff state. Abrams has to get over 50% to avoid a runoff, and with the third party candidate being a Libertarian, she would have a difficult time winning a runoff.
I have a liberal in-law in Georgia voting for Abrams and another in Texas who early voted for Beto. I don’t expect either to win, but I’ll be interested in how competitive they are and what it portends in those states going forward.
Something to keep in mind about the Georgia governor's race is that it may not necessarily be over on Tuesday. If neither Kemp nor Abrams achieve 50% of the vote, it will go to a runoff ... and we will be subject to the (often negative) campaign messages for another month.
Trump's involvement will also likely increase since his attention is currently spread out with ongoing races across the country, so he'll be firing off tweets that highlight Abrams' perceived flaws in addition to whatever else he feels like sharing. He has a lot invested in her being defeated as well as Gillum in adjacent Florida, who unlike the more cordial Abrams has not hesitated to respond to the president.
Easy to-be-holier than thou at a keyboard. Georgia legislature passed the law in question in 2017, which is allowed since Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was held to be unconstitutional, (Shelby County v. Holder), by a 5-4 vote of The Supreme Court in 2013. Now, we have another round of litigation, including the lawsuits from Georgia, making their through the federal judicial system. Expect one or more of the cases will make it to The Supreme Court. This is the way our system works, for ~239 years.
I can accept that. Can you?
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Originally Posted by bellhead
What Kemp does stinks to high heaven, it's pretty clear I support liberal candidates, but I would be screaming at any one of them to step down in this case.
Something to keep in mind about the Georgia governor's race is that it may not necessarily be over on Tuesday. If neither Kemp nor Abrams achieve 50% of the vote, it will go to a runoff ... and we will be subject to the (often negative) campaign messages for another month.
Trump's involvement will also likely increase since his attention is currently spread out with ongoing races across the country, so he'll be firing off tweets that highlight Abrams' perceived flaws in addition to whatever else he feels like sharing. He has a lot invested in her being defeated as well as Gillum in adjacent Florida, who unlike the more cordial Abrams has not hesitated to respond to the president.
If it goes into a runoff, it is going to be a long autumn.
I can't see Georgia electing a radical like Abrams, but we have at least two on this thread who voted for Abrams' extremism.
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