Now comes the drama: Will Georgians choose Democrats for top state offices for the first time in nearly a generation?
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Georgia WIN List endorses candidates as issues include abortion, taxes
Georgia WIN List has unveiled a slate of Democratic female candidates for statewide office as issues including abortion access and tax cuts to state government emerge to energize Republican voters.
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Will Democrats’ ‘blue wave’ push in suburban city elections drown nonpartisan tradition?
From Tucker to Sandy Springs, the state Democratic Party is making good on plans to run candidates in suburban city elections. Think local ripples from the “blue wave” that already washed Republicans out of north metro Congressional and General Assembly seats, helped flip Georgia to Biden, and, Democrats hope, puts one of their own in the Governor’s Office in 2022.
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Georgia Senate votes to fortify gun trade
Senate to cops: sell confiscated guns or else
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Don’t expect a boring Georgia legislative session after the year we’ve had
There’s a good chance that this year’s legislative session will be less … boring.
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Two Black, Democratic women are the face of change in Cobb, Gwinnett counties
Two Black women, both Democrats, have changed the political dynamics in Cobb and Gwinnett counties in the 2020 election cycle. One is an incumbent county commissioner campaigning for the position of county chair; one promotes candidates and the GOTV effort as head of the county’s Democratic Party.
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Southern Co. governance, shifting sands of Democrats’ environmental agenda
Atlanta-based Southern Co. may be an early example of a power producer criticized by environmentalists for its pledge to comply with a provision of the Paris climate accord. Meanwhile, Joe Biden and the Democrats are trying to devise a climate platform to take on President Trump – one that satisfies the party’s centrist and progressive views on fossil fuels.
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Dems learn some campaign strategies, pick up policies from 2018 example
With almost 4 million votes cast, Team Abrams in 2018 demonstrated how many Georgia voters can turn up to vote Democrat, for the right candidate with the right ground game. The Democratic Party of Georgia is taking some things away from that example.
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If Democrats didn’t get everything they wanted out of Election Day, neither did Republicans
The day after Election Day, an email arrived in my inbox. Entitled “Victory Breakfast,” it came from the Gwinnett Democrats. Things have changed, but not everything has changed.
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Georgia’s 2018 elections brought out the best and worst in us
By King Williams On Nov. 4, 2008, in downtown Atlanta, I experienced one of the greatest moments of my life – the election of Barack Obama. Watching Obama’s victory in a friend’s apartment with a dozen others, there was a sense of collective joy that I had never felt in my life. People were celebrating […]
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Hillary in Atlanta: I’m not going anywhere except right into the middle of the debate
At least a half-hour before the doors opened at the Fox Monday night, folks lined up outside in the chill, ready to file inside and hear from Hillary Rodham Clinton.
