Gubernatorial Race 2018 (trash, application, trails)

[arjay57]

Whoever wins, I hope they govern with the understanding that 50% of the population preferred somebody else.

[BELMO45]

Gwinnett continues to be only one counting or at least only one that actually is doing work this morning. Since 5am they’ve added 15,000 votes or so but the gap of 67-70,000 hasn’t budged. I have no clue if the others are all wrapped or not. My understanding is DeKalb an Cobb are done so it may just be Fulton now

[WanderingImport]

Originally Posted by arjay57

Whoever wins, I hope they govern with the understanding that 50% of the population preferred somebody else.

This obviously applies to the 2016 election, too...

[atltechdude]

Originally Posted by markjames68

That’s what I see as well. Unless something surprising happens she’ll be my Congresswoman. I hope she can rise above her single message campaign and vote with her brain not the party line because the difference in qualifications between the two candidates is huge.

Haha, I didn't even look at the qualifications, I just cast my ballot against the maniac.

[atltechdude]

Originally Posted by wasel

I am disturbed that we only had 60% participation from registered voters in Georgia. There are so many ways to vote, I just don't understand why more folks didn't do it.

I'm also disturbed that someone in charge of elections was allowed to remain in his professional post while running for office. Shouldn't there be a law that requires the Secretary of State to step down from overseeing the elections and have it be handled by an outside third party?

That's actually not bad for a midterm though.

[atltechdude]

Originally Posted by -thomass

Interesting that GA-6 looks like a flip after all that money was spent last year.

It's like I've said before, a lot of the Dem base just does not turn out for special elections.

It's doubtful the demographics shifted that radically in this district just from last year, and I think Handel won by 5 or 6 points in that election. So the difference was clearly just more Dem voters turning out.

[BELMO45]

Update...Clarke county reported 5K absentees at 1155am. Obviously mostly went Abrams way but no dent made still...

[atltechdude]

Originally Posted by LTCM

It's funny, they said the exact same thing about deal when he was elected. About how extreme he was going to be. They will also say it about the next Republican governor elected, and the next, and the next and the next...

Yeah, I still remember Deal's extremely nasty commercials demonizing gays when he beat Handel in the 2010 R primary. He marketed himself as a far right social con but that's not how he governed. I hope Kemp will be the same, but we'll have to see.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by CaliDreaming01

Yes, Metz got less than a percent of the both whereas Libertarians usually get 2-3% of the vote. Usually that vote would throw the result to the Republican.

Libertarians generally do abandon their candidate in the face of an election as close and critical as this. They can hardly be blamed for such.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by atltechdude

That's actually not bad for a midterm though.

Nationally, there were 20 million more voters than there were in 2014.