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Why Warnock won
https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/07/3-u...ia-runoff/
Ballot harvesting, smart spending, litigation
"...There are several Georgia-based leftist nonprofits that engage in ballot harvesting and curing. America Votes, a left-wing get-out-the-vote group, knocked on 4 million doors leading up to the Georgia runoff (in contrast, the Walker-backing Faith and Freedom Coalition aimed to knock on just 400,000 doors) and made more than 1 million phone calls encouraging likely Democrat voters to cast ballots. Other Democrat groups such as Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight and the New Georgia Project have engaged thousands of volunteers to push their GOTV efforts, including registering largely non-white Georgian residents to vote. VoteBuilder, a voter registration database run by the Democratic National Committee and each respective state’s Democratic Party, gives such activists the information necessary to group and target Democratic voters and contact them about filling out and sending in their mail-in ballot....
<America Votes and one other organization contacted our kids several times. We had two people knock on our door in a very blue neighborhood>
Despite what corporate media pundits tell you, Georgia is not a swing state. Republicans overwhelmingly swept all other down-ballot races this past election cycle. Nationally, Democrats were focused on control of the Senate, and accordingly focused their strategy and efforts on keeping their Georgia Senate seat. They did this by pulling out their most effective ground game tactics such as harvesting (and curing) ballots, spending millions of dollars in various get-out-the-vote efforts, and going to court to expand and cement their radical post-2020 election law changes. And it paid off. If Republicans can’t stop their tactics, then the GOP would do well to mirror them."
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RE: Why Warnock won
(12-08-2022 02:57 PM)bullet Wrote: https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/07/3-u...ia-runoff/
Ballot harvesting, smart spending, litigation
"...There are several Georgia-based leftist nonprofits that engage in ballot harvesting and curing. America Votes, a left-wing get-out-the-vote group, knocked on 4 million doors leading up to the Georgia runoff (in contrast, the Walker-backing Faith and Freedom Coalition aimed to knock on just 400,000 doors) and made more than 1 million phone calls encouraging likely Democrat voters to cast ballots. Other Democrat groups such as Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight and the New Georgia Project have engaged thousands of volunteers to push their GOTV efforts, including registering largely non-white Georgian residents to vote. VoteBuilder, a voter registration database run by the Democratic National Committee and each respective state’s Democratic Party, gives such activists the information necessary to group and target Democratic voters and contact them about filling out and sending in their mail-in ballot....
<America Votes and one other organization contacted our kids several times. We had two people knock on our door in a very blue neighborhood>
Despite what corporate media pundits tell you, Georgia is not a swing state. Republicans overwhelmingly swept all other down-ballot races this past election cycle. Nationally, Democrats were focused on control of the Senate, and accordingly focused their strategy and efforts on keeping their Georgia Senate seat. They did this by pulling out their most effective ground game tactics such as harvesting (and curing) ballots, spending millions of dollars in various get-out-the-vote efforts, and going to court to expand and cement their radical post-2020 election law changes. And it paid off. If Republicans can’t stop their tactics, then the GOP would do well to mirror them."
In what you quoted, that's not ballot harvesting. BH is illegal in Georgia. Only physically disabled voters are allowed to have someone else return their ballot. And even then, it has to be a relative or household member.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_harvestin...te#Georgia
There is nothing at all wrong with knocking on doors and calling voters, etc.
Here's the real reasons Warnock won.
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RE: Why Warnock won
no fk’n shite … ballet harvesting coupled with muh muh mail-it-inns and the dregs that associate are all by design…
@>270guaranteed’24
(This post was last modified: 12-08-2022 03:31 PM by stinkfist.)
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RE: Why Warnock won
Meh - who cares at this point.
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RE: Why Warnock won
Multi faceted:
1. McConnell didn’t fund it enough
2. Orange man bad
3. State is trending blue either way
4. Ballot harvesting and banking votes early is better than hoping they turn out on ED.
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RE: Why Warnock won
With the MASSIVE difference in money spent, coupled with the media squarely on Warnock's side, it's amazing the race was even close.
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12-08-2022 04:17 PM |
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RE: Why Warnock won
Could it be that Walker simply wasn't a good enough candidate?
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RE: Why Warnock won
(12-08-2022 04:26 PM)VA49er Wrote: Could it be that Walker simply wasn't a good enough candidate?
Not when outspent $126 million to $48 million.
And I'm guessing that doesn't count all the third party anti-candidate commercials which were dominated by Democratic ones.
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RE: Why Warnock won
(12-08-2022 03:57 PM)WalkThePlank Wrote: Multi faceted:
1. McConnell didn’t fund it enough
2. Orange man bad
3. State is trending blue either way
4. Ballot harvesting and banking votes early is better than hoping they turn out on ED.
yep, exactly.
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RE: Why Warnock won
(12-08-2022 03:57 PM)WalkThePlank Wrote: Multi faceted:
1. McConnell didn’t fund it enough
2. Orange man bad
3. State is trending blue either way
4. Ballot harvesting and banking votes early is better than hoping they turn out on ED.
Well Kemp won 50-49 in 2018 and beat election denier Stacey Abrams 53-46 this time.
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12-08-2022 04:30 PM |
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RE: Why Warnock won
Republicans won the other 8 statewide races by between 5 and 10 points. Further down the ballot, the margins tended to get bigger.
Interestingly, the Sec. of State, who was very unpopular with Republicans, won by 10 points against a Democrat who promised to remove any controls to make sure votes were legal.
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12-08-2022 04:32 PM |
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RE: Why Warnock won
(12-08-2022 04:30 PM)bullet Wrote: (12-08-2022 03:57 PM)WalkThePlank Wrote: Multi faceted:
1. McConnell didn’t fund it enough
2. Orange man bad
3. State is trending blue either way
4. Ballot harvesting and banking votes early is better than hoping they turn out on ED.
Well Kemp won 50-49 in 2018 and beat election denier Stacey Abrams 53-46 this time.
Yes, candidate quality matters as well. Should have included that. Interestingly enough the Dems candidates sucked too which was why it was still relatively close.
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RE: Why Warnock won
(12-08-2022 03:02 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: Here's the real reasons Warnock won.
This is it exactly, and the fact that even some of the more intelligent posters on the right can't/won't see that fills me with great hope for future successes. By all means, please double down as it is working so well and we are getting lots of great things done.
More witches, more Walkers, more winning!
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RE: Why Warnock won
1. Walker is a ridiculous candidate.
2. Dems completely own Reps.
3. Dems are willing to do whatever it takes to win.
4. Reps are too p^ssy to stop Dems from doing anything to win.
5. Reps are lazy and tend to sit back and watch things play out.
6. Reps are more concerned about keeping their own position and as long as they keep getting their checks, they dont really care about policy... "we tried but we were outvoted" kind of bull****.
7. Personally I am so sick of p%ssy Reps that I will never vote for a Republican again, for any reason.
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RE: Why Warnock won
To answer OP:
.... Warnock won because Herschel Walker was a terrible candidate who ran an even worse campaign. If you replace Herschel Walker with garden variety Country Club McBoring Republican they win easy.
And the polls make it crystal clear and now on a bipartisan basis: hitch your wagon to Trump anywhere but the deepest of reds and you'll lose or run an uncomfortably close unnecessarily expensive campaign.
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Why Warnock won
Atlanta. That's why Warnock win. Too much urban stupid for conservatives to overcome at this point.
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RE: Why Warnock won
(12-08-2022 11:30 PM)memtigbb Wrote: 1. Walker is a ridiculous candidate.
2. Dems completely own Reps.
3. Dems are willing to do whatever it takes to win.
4. Reps are too p^ssy to stop Dems from doing anything to win.
5. Reps are lazy and tend to sit back and watch things play out.
6. Reps are more concerned about keeping their own position and as long as they keep getting their checks, they dont really care about policy... "we tried but we were outvoted" kind of bull****.
7. Personally I am so sick of p%ssy Reps that I will never vote for a Republican again, for any reason.
All this too.
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RE: Why Warnock won
Problem republicans have now is that any candidate backed by Trump, including probably himself, can win a primary but cannot win a general except in a very few states.
Part of that is because Trump seems to be the only republican who us not a pv$$y and wants to win.
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Why Warnock won
Gary Black had experience in state wide elections
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12-09-2022 07:18 AM |
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RE: Why Warnock won
(12-08-2022 04:26 PM)VA49er Wrote: Could it be that Walker simply wasn't a good enough candidate?
No, there was imaginary ballot harvesting and fraud. Perhaps check your junk or spam folders for your daily talking points?
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