Ga. suddenly in play for Democrats in 2020

[kadee79]

Republicans have had a hammerlock on Georgia for a generation. It could slip away — if Democrats decide to make it a fight. 


The state is a must-win for President Donald Trump. Republicans are defending two U.S. Senate seats that may swing control of the chamber. Democrats remain underdogs, but population growth in the diverse and booming Atlanta area, along with the exodus of educated women from the GOP, have made them competitive in a state they’ve carried just once since 1980. 


The Democratic National Committee announced this week it would hold the fifth presidential debate in Georgia. Party spokesman David Bergstein proclaimed that Georgia is “a defensive liability for Republicans and it’s rapidly emerging as a battleground state.” 


Trump super-PAC America First Action has placed Georgia among its six “tier one” states that it will compete heavily in — along with the perennially competitive swing states of Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Michigan. Now they say they’re prepared to pour resources into hanging on to what has been a conservative bastion.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-10/gop-bastion-georgia-is-suddenly-in-play-for-democrats-in-2020

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Democrats are the underdogs, is significant at this time, in a Trump voting enviroment.  

[djAdvocate]

how is the voter suppression going in GA?

[kadee79]

They are still trying, Stacey is still fighting and more & more are becoming educated.  

I'm betting on either a record turn out in 2020 or close to it.
I'm seeing more & more cracks locally....many educated GOPers are getting fed up with DT & his constant lies and not taking credit for all the screw ups.  I may be wrong, but this is what I'm hearing & seeing locally...and I'm in the most agricultural county in the state.

We will be hosting our big ag expo next week.  Our local population has about doubled now with venders here setting up their displays...all kinds of displays but heavy on ag equipment...which many farmers can't afford now with all of DT's mess with tariffs.
I'm wondering what many of these farmers are going to do that took good row crop land out of production to plant pecan groves cause the Asian market was growing by leaps & bounds every year....now it's not doing much of anything.  And I'm talking about thousands of acres converted, not just a few hundred. 

[kadee79]

DJ, you just jogged my memory of something I saw today coming home from town.  A tractor pulling a water tank with sprayers...watering a cabbage field.  Only problem with that is that field has irrigation in it...the big thing that moves all around the field.  So 2 possibilities....either the farmer can't afford to run the big irrigation or it broke down & he can't afford to fix it right now.
We are in a draught...it's getting bad.   The tiny amount of water that the tank/sprayer was putting down won't do anything for those small plants.  They need a good, deep soaking.