2020 is not over until 2021. Have breakfast and a cup of coffee, then get back to work.
Georgia may actually go blue. Democrats need it to go bluer on January 5 if they expect Joe Biden to have leverage in the U.S. Senate.
Stacey Abrams is not done yet:
The people leading the effort to flip the state — a group composed of Black female elected officials, voting rights advocates and community organizers — understood why Democrats had often fallen short in the South the past decade. Topping the list of reasons: the region’s long-running conservative bent, voter suppression tactics by the right and the failure by Democrats to mount a sustained voter outreach program.
But something changed in 2018. Abrams’ razor-thin loss in Georgia’s gubernatorial election made clear to her and other liberals in the state that demographic shifts in the suburbs had reached a tipping point. Their argument to the national party was simple: Democrats could win more races by expanding their coalition to include disengaged voters of color, as opposed to continuing the focus on persuading undecided, moderate, often white voters.
Abrams had come close with the strategy: Her campaign and its allies registered more than 200,000 new voters in the run-up to the 2018 election. When Fair Fight and the New Georgia Project, two organizations founded by Abrams, tried again this year, they quadrupled their gains, registering more than 800,000 new voters.
This vast new coalition of first-time voters, many young and of color, put Joe Biden over the top in the state by more than 7,000 votes as of Saturday. The expected win in Georgia would bring his Electoral College total to over 300 votes.
The fight for those two U.S. Senate seats from Georgia will be more concentrated than the campaign that just concluded, but even more fierce. With any luck the Biden win will have knocked the wind out of the sails of Republican voters. But not grassroots Democrats’.
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