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You go, Donny! Tell your psychophants to boycott the election.
You go, Donny! Tell your psychophants to boycott the election.
So, all Perdud us really willing to offer Georgia voters is to not be a democrat for 6 years.Sen. David Perdue 'invites' AOC to state to campaign for his opponent | Fox News - "Incumbent offers to buy congresswoman ticket to help his campaign in high-stakes runoff election"
So, all Perdud us really willing to offer Georgia voters is to not be a democrat for 6 years.Sen. David Perdue 'invites' AOC to state to campaign for his opponent | Fox News - "Incumbent offers to buy congresswoman ticket to help his campaign in high-stakes runoff election"
Kinda like Bush I mostly promised not to be Dukakis for four...
Hell of a mandate.
I am fully for a campaign to say "Don't vote in the runoff! tRump isn't even allowed to get his name on it! It's a sham!" And see how that fares. Apparently some right wing group has already tried similar, to boycott the election so, high hopes?
When Long Tran, a liberal organizer of Vietnamese descent, hosted a meet-and-greet for Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff in early 2017, he was hoping in part to engage more Asian Americans like himself in politics.
Not a single other Asian person showed up to his event.
Nearly four years later, that has dramatically changed. Georgia’s hand recount and vote certification confirmed that Asian American and Pacific Islander voters — who make up the fastest-growing demographic in Georgia — helped swing the state for the Democrats for the first time since 1992.
While AAPI voters comprise only about 4 percent of Georgia’s population, that amounts to roughly 238,000 eligible voters, more than enough to determine races in the narrowly divided state. Georgia saw a 91 percent increase in AAPI voter turnout over 2016, according to an analysis by the Democratic firm TargetSmart, and exit polls showed Asian American voters preferred Joe Biden to President Trump by 2 to 1.
“We are that new electorate,” said Stephanie Cho, executive director of the Atlanta chapter of Asian Americans Advancing Justice. “Us along with Black woman voters, along with Latino voters, along with young people, really have changed the trajectory of what Georgia looks like.”
The Advocacy Fund launched an “Asians for Ossoff & Warnock” campaign last week and after Thanksgiving planned to resume door-knocking, something it avoided during the general election because of the pandemic.
When it comes to AAPI outreach, some things “won’t cut it” anymore, Tran said. Campaigns can no longer create ads with a token Asian figure or run their standard English ads through Google Translate, he said, and they likely need to hold several events with multiple groups within the AAPI community.
Tran added that the “model minority” myth — which portrays Asian Americans as uniquely successful and well-integrated — can obscure the economic challenges faced by many. More than 50,000 Asian Americans in Georgia lack health insurance, and more than 40,000, including a third of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, live in poverty.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/asian-americans-georgia-senate/2020/11/28/28521068-2ad2-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html
The Advocacy Fund launched an “Asians for Ossoff & Warnock” campaign last week and after Thanksgiving planned to resume door-knocking, something it avoided during the general election because of the pandemic.
When it comes to AAPI outreach, some things “won’t cut it” anymore, Tran said. Campaigns can no longer create ads with a token Asian figure or run their standard English ads through Google Translate, he said, and they likely need to hold several events with multiple groups within the AAPI community.
Tran added that the “model minority” myth — which portrays Asian Americans as uniquely successful and well-integrated — can obscure the economic challenges faced by many. More than 50,000 Asian Americans in Georgia lack health insurance, and more than 40,000, including a third of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, live in poverty.
Since I live in a small city that is mostly made up of Black and White people, with a very small percentage of Asian and Hispanic voters, I didn't know much about the impact of voters of Asian backgrounds in Georgia. I do know that parts of the districts north of Atlanta are extremely ethnically diverse. It's good to know that Asian Americans in Georgia are becoming more actively involved in politics, and according to this article about 2/3rds support Democratic candidates. So again, it appears obvious, that the results of this election will be all about turn out. Right now, it almost appears as if the Democrats are more enthusiastic about this election compared to the Republicans, especially the Republicans who are sulking about the Trump loss.
It's really sad that the Republicans can only resort to nonsensical scare tactics to try and win this election.
I've never seen a candidate not mention their own name or plans, but instead try to make their opponent look really scary.
So Ossoff is campaigning today at some vegan joint on Ralph David Abernathy.
[tweet]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Back in Atlanta, Democratic candidate for Senate Jon Ossoff kicks off a Small Business Saturday tour with a stop at Slutty Vegan, a vegan burger joint. “We got Jon Jon running for Senate in the building!” a staffer calls out as Ossoff enters, prompting cheers. <a href="https://t.co/UTjjCX8hjr">pic.twitter.com/UTjjCX8hjr</a></p>— DJ Judd (@DJJudd) <a href="https://twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1332737895229239297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/tweet]
I would think he and Dems in general already have a lock on both the vegan crowd and on the mostly black SW Atlanta. Would it not make more sense to try to reach other parts of the city and people not into veganism? What a missed opportunity!
Why would it not make sense for Ossoff to campaign in places where he might encourage people who are more likely to vote for him to actually get out and vote for him?
It wouldn't make a lot of sense for Perdue to campaign at that restaurant, but your logic seems to suggest that it would. This election is really going to be about convincing potential supporters to vote in the runoff, since most people already voted for their candidate in the general election already. Now they need to get their base supporters back for another round.
So Ossoff is campaigning today at some vegan joint on Ralph David Abernathy.
[tweet]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Back in Atlanta, Democratic candidate for Senate Jon Ossoff kicks off a Small Business Saturday tour with a stop at Slutty Vegan, a vegan burger joint. “We got Jon Jon running for Senate in the building!” a staffer calls out as Ossoff enters, prompting cheers. <a href="https://t.co/UTjjCX8hjr">pic.twitter.com/UTjjCX8hjr</a></p>— DJ Judd (@DJJudd) <a href="https://twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1332737895229239297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/tweet]
I would think he and Dems in general already have a lock on both the vegan crowd and on the mostly black SW Atlanta. Would it not make more sense to try to reach other parts of the city and people not into veganism? What a missed opportunity!
Mounting political strain between Gov. Brian Kemp and Donald Trump reached a new phase on Sunday when the president said he was “ashamed” that he endorsed the fellow Republican in a tight race for governor in 2018.
Trump’s remarks came during a Fox News interview on his false claims of rampant voter fraud in Georgia, which Joe Biden captured by less than 13,000 votes. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified the vote on Nov. 20, refuting Trump’s claims, and hours later Kemp signed his approval.
During his Fox News interview, Trump repeated allegations of widespread fraud in Georgia and called Raffensperger a “disaster.” Those attacks, along with Trump’s insistence the election was “rigged,” have unnerved Republicans worried they could dampen GOP turnout in the runoffs.