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Let’s Help Stacey Abrams & Fair Fight: Curing Ballots in GA

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I saw this yesterday evening but I figured we were not quite mentally in a place to take action yet, but figured that we would be this morning.

Stacey Abrams asked for help – for people who can help cure ballots IN PERSON.

I’m also willing to bet that they could use some money toward that effort. Donate to Fair Fight

Let’s help them Count Every Vote.

Update:  and help drag Perdue down to less than 50% + 1 so we can have a second run-off for Senate in Georgia.

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  1. 1.

    Nicole

    She’s so inspiring. As I’ve seen said of her on Twitter, to have an election stolen from her and her response to be to make sure that never happens to anyone else… that’s definitely someone who subscribes to the campsite theory of life.

  6. 6.

    MazeDancer

    Biden is likely to take GA today (knock wood).

    But the ballot cure can help Ossoff push Perdue into a run-off.

  7. 7.

    Kathleen

    @Nicole:  I heard Bakari Sellers say this morning that she is the reason Georgia is competitive for Dems and she deserves a parade in her honor.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    @MazeDancer: I agree, that’s where I landed last night.  I think Biden will take GA, but I am hoping/praying that the cured ballots help drag Perdue under 50% + 1.

    I think Perdue was at 50.2 % last night, but I might have that number wrong.

  9. 9.

    Citizen Alan

    Stacey would make a great governor, but honestly, I wish she’d become head of the DNC. We haven’t had a good one since Howard Dean.

  10. 10.

    Baud

    @MazeDancer: I need to get work done today, but I want to know right away when the right combination of states gets called to make Biden’s win official.  I wish I had more self discipline.

  12. 12.

    SenyorDave

    My rant for the day.  About 20% of black men voted for Trump.  WTF!!! How effin stupid are they?  I know that white males are stupid sacks of crap ( disclosure: I am a white male, but I am Jewish so Trump suppporters probably wouldn’t even consider me white), but now we have to add a portion f black males to that mix.  And apparently Hispanic males as a whole might have even favored Trump over Biden.  Maybe men shouldn’t be allowed to vote or hold office – no woman who could get elected could ever be as bad as Trump.

  18. 18.

    mvr

    Thanks WaterGirl. I was trying to figure out what I could do to push from Nebraska and where it would be most effective to send money.  I sent $100 just now.

  19. 19.

    MazeDancer

     

    @WaterGirl: GA Election Chief, finally, at 8:15AM, corrected his earlier whopping error of number of ballots left to count to around 51K.

    Trump has a 18.5K lead.

    Biden has been getting around 75% of the votes counted.

    You do the math. Okay, I will: 50,000 x .7 = 35,700!

    Stacy Abrams elects a President!

    But you are right in your math, she needs help taking the Senate.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    @SenyorDave: I saw that statistic refuted in one of the threads last night – more like 12%.  And even when Barack ran the first time, 10% voted for Hillary.

    Both of those are better than 20%!

  22. 22.

    clay

    @SenyorDave: I wouldn’t trust exit polls, if that’s where your figures come from.  They’re unreliable in a good year, but this year even more so because of the huge quantities of mail-ins and early votes.

  23. 23.

    Kathleen

    OT but I saw AP article online that said Biden and Kelly took Arizona. They’re still waiting for results for down ticket races. Did anyone else see that? I’m like a Republican trying to keep in time with the “Stop and/or Count The Votes” chant –  3 threads behind the beat.

  26. 26.

    clay

    @WaterGirl: Sadly, I still think “familiar white man squeaking to Georgia victory” is a much easier lift than “black woman winning governorship”.

    I would love to be wrong.

  27. 27.

    Felanius Kootea

    @Nicole: She is amazing.  I’ve been giving to Fair Fight monthly and this election has really brought home to me how necessary the work they do is.  I hope she takes Kemp on again in 2022 and wins.

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    @JPL: You just added the “Abrams did it!”

    Not sure if you’re saying that Biden won GA, that Perdue is already below 50% + 1, or just generally that she is why GA is where it is.

  31. 31.

    Jinchi

    @MazeDancer: That math is pretty tight though.

    If 18.5 K separate them, and Biden picks up 35K while Trump picks up 15K we’re at an optimistic scenario with Biden winning by ~1.5K.

    I find it exasperating that Biden, currently winning nationally by 3.5 million votes, is considered only barely likely to win the election, and the multi-million voter edge he built in California is worth about as much as a coin toss in Nevada.

  32. 32.

    Felanius Kootea

    @SenyorDave: If this is based on Election Day exit poll data, the stats are skewed to those predisposed to vote for Trump.  The vast majority of early voters skewed a Biden and probably didn’t get polled in the same way.

    That said, it is sad that there’s a substantial group of men of all races, especially white men without a college degree, who view Trump’s pathologies as strengths.

  33. 33.

    p.a.

    Here’s a chance for some quick cash: someone develop a location app that tells tRumpublicans whether they should be rioting FOR or AGAINST counting votes based on where they are! Won’t someone think of the children!!????

  35. 35.

    James E Powell

    Just woke up. Thought this would be done by now. What’s the buzz, tell me what’s happening?

  36. 36.

    JPL

    @WaterGirl: She was able to mobilize the black vote.   Democrats need to remember that we don’t need to win back rural white votes, we need mobilize the black vote.   If GA does flip, it is because of Stacy Abrams.

  37. 37.

    Immanentize

    @SenyorDave: That piece of data is bullshit of the first order.

    People: polls are way off, they suck so bad!

    You:. Except exit polls based on small samples of people who voted in person on election day.  And now I can hate on blacks!

    We ought to wait until about 6 months go by, when all votes are counted, etc., before anyone starts hating on people because of one day exit polls.  K?

  38. 38.

    Elizabelle

    Bringing this forward.  Do any of you have any interest in a working meetup in Georgia??

    If the Georgia Senate races come down to run-offs, (please, please, please — although an outright Dem win is always welcome, too), we could do a masked, contactless meetup down there.

    It may be important to walk the neighborhoods and put informative info on the doors; talk up the importance of voting to those we find out in the yards and neighborhoods.

    With the Spanberger campaign, we did contact-less lit drops to our voters’ doors — no knocking the door, so not a canvass, per se — but it was a pleasure to talk to several of those voters, when they turned out to be in the yard or came to the door once they saw us — usually to announce they had already voted!  Our voters rocked this year.

    We can check for interest a little closer to the date.  I think being out there, and being visible supporters for Rev. Warnock and Jon Ossoff, could help turn out a few votes.

    We can find out where we would be most appreciated with the lit-dropping.  Could be a smaller town or city.  Very likely to be suburbs.

    [I was sad that COVID prevented our meetup in Maine to support Sara Gideon, and even sadder that g-damned furrowed brow Susan Collins won re-election.  Maine!]

  39. 39.

    Jinchi

    @James E Powell: What’s the news?

    Georgia headed for something close to a tie. Biden edge shrinking in Arizona and Trump edge shrinking in Pennsylvania. Still waiting on Nevada (currently Biden up 8,000).

    It’s 2020. Life can’t be easy this year.

    Should get the next batch of numbers at 10:30, noon and 9 PM Eastern.

  41. 41.

    Felanius Kootea

    @clay: I think she may have just built an “unpurgeable” Georgia voter base.  Kemp won with about 55,000 votes after incorrectly purging over 300,000 voters as GA Secretary of State, including over 150,000 who would have been more inclined to vote for Abrams. Many of those disenfranchised voters will never forget what he did.

    She’s added way more voters this cycle and his handling of the coronavirus had him rated one of the worst/least trusted governors in the US.  If she wants to take him on in 2022, I think she has a great chance of winning.

  43. 43.

    James E Powell

    @Jinchi:

    Are we still beaming with confidence about AZ, NV, and PA?

    Are the Republicans still sending out mobs and lawyers

    The campaigns have more precise knowledge, so their actions should reveal a bit of what they know. If someone is trying to stop the count, maybe they know how it will end.

  44. 44.

    Yarrow

    Stacey Abrams is just the best. I’d be thrilled if she wanted to be head of the DNC but we’ve got other great possibilities for that role too. I can totally see her heading up some new Fair Elections commission or running for Governor of Georgia, or doing pretty much anything she wants to do.

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    @p.a.: I think that’s a brilliant idea.  Someone with a lot of followers should tweet that.  Even if we don’t make the app, people should talk about it as a way to (rightfully) mock the Republicans for their bullshit.

  50. 50.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @SenyorDave: Not for nothing, but even if it’s true, what those numbers mean to me is that over 80% of black men are still a reliable vote for Democrats. If 80% of white men would do likewise, this country wouldn’t be in the shape it’s in.

  51. 51.

    topclimber

    @clay: Let’s see what happens in the Senate runoff(s).  Elect a black man senator and you can elect a black woman governor.

  55. 55.

    Nicole

    @Elizabelle: I put in an order for 200 postcards last night, anticipating doing some writing through Postcards to Voters to Georgia in December.  I sure hope it’s for 2 campaigns.

  56. 56.

    Jinchi

    @The Thin Black Duke: Not for nothing, but what those numbers mean to me is that over 80% of black men are still a reliable vote for Democrats.

    Agreed. I don’t understand Democratic obsession with kicking their base. Black men overwhelmingly voted for Biden. Save your anger for the groups who voted for Trump.

  57. 57.

    Baud

    @James E Powell: If you trust the experts, PA is a lock.  The only question is about when Biden overtakes Trump in the count and whether some combination of AZ, NV, or GA will give Biden the official win before that happens.

  59. 59.

    narya

    @Baud: I actually heard about it first from Dan Savage, who prescribes it for folks who get involved with someone much younger than they are.

  60. 60.

    japa21

    Here’s why I would feel good about runoffs in GA. Trump will not be on the ballot.  I have difficulty understanding his attraction to voters but he brings them out when he is on the ballot.

  63. 63.

    Bill Arnold

    @germy:

    Presidential spiritual adviser Paula White is currently leading an impassioned prayer service in an effort to secure Trump’s reelection.

    Yeah, a lot of activity in those realms. Not just on Demon Trump’s side.

    (To be clear, Paula White’s camp is attempting large scale magic spells in service of a Prince of Lies; nothing at all to do with G_d.)

  65. 65.

    JPL

    Georgia Senator David Perdue (R-Inc) has now fallen below the 50% mark. With outstanding ballots to be counted coming from primarily Democratic-leaning precincts, it is likely that Georgia will have two runoff races for U.S. Senate

     

    or what Gin and Tonic said

  70. 70.

    germy

    This is going to be wild:

    JUST IN: Trump campaign will hold a press conference in Philadelphia at 10:15 a.m. with with Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and campaign Senior Advisor Corey Lewandowski

    — Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) November 5, 2020

  72. 72.

    hueyplong

    @germy: That’s all you need to know regarding whether Biden is going to win PA.  Trump himself thinks litigation is his only path.

  73. 73.

    Redshift

    @germy: Reminds me of a favorite quote (which I thought was from Ladyhawke, but I’ve never been able to track down):

    “I’ll pray for you.”

    “Whatever you pray to, I don’t want to be brought to its attention!”

  75. 75.

    Baud

    @James E Powell: Mostly.  I think AZ got a little worrisome late last night but the odds are still in Biden’s favor.  The biggest change this morning from what I’ve seen is more confidence about a favorable result in PA.  GA is inching closer but it’ll be tight. And NV is a black box until they announce their results today, so no change there.

  78. 78.

    germy

    @WaterGirl:

    If Biden wins and control of the Senate comes down to those two Georgia seats, GOP hopes of winning them/the majority will likely hinge on whether a defeated Trump would invest himself into turning out his voters in races where he’s not on the ballot and wins won’t benefit him— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) November 5, 2020

    Latest numbers in Georgia have Perdue sitting right on 50%, the exact amount he needs to avoid a runoff, with remaining votes likely to nudge him just under. pic.twitter.com/YzRDNyBKhc— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 5, 2020

  80. 80.

    Redshift

    Relevant to both the previous thread and this one, one of the ways Stacy Abrams has been building a multiracial coalition (building in the work of Dr. King and others) is by showing people that when politicians gain power by suppressing poor Black folks, they always turn it on all poor people.

  81. 81.

    hueyplong

    @germy: Bwahahahahahaha.  A defeated Trump would not venture into public to be pointed at and laughed at by a million Nelsons.

  82. 82.

    Jinchi

    @germy: hinge on whether a defeated Trump would invest himself into turning out his voters in races where he’s not on the ballot and wins won’t benefit him

    So that’d be 2 more Democrats in the Senate.

  87. 87.

    WaterGirl

    @germy:

    GOP hopes of winning them/the majority will likely hinge on whether a defeated Trump would invest himself into turning out his voters in races where he’s not on the ballot and wins won’t benefit him

    hahahahaha

    GOP winning wold depend on Trump doing something to help others that won’t help him?  Good luck with that!

    But someone could pay him to do it, and would probably jump right on that.

  90. 90.

    AWOL

    @SenyorDave: Sadly, many of our fellow Jews, whether in the Trump Administration, serving the Trump legal team, donating heavily to Trump, using their media positions to pimp for Trump, aligning with white-nationalist fiends, supporting Israel’s horrific human-rights violations, doing anti-Covid Mask Wearing rallies, or terrorizing a BJ commentator on the Cuomo Bridge is not looking too good for us as a culture. Plus, I believe, black males skewed only 10 percent for Trump, not 20 percent. We have to clean our own house of “Jews Without Mercy,” as Adam Silverman noted, quoting a classic book from 1981 that foresaw this horror.

  91. 91.

    WaterGirl

    @germy: Every time I see one of your tweets, I end up going to google and typing “Who is [insert name here]”

    Because I don’t know whether it’s somebody’s next door neighbor or someone who would really be in the know.

    I am here to report that the 5 times I had to do that last night and so far this morning, everyone has been someone who would be in the know.

  92. 92.

    James E Powell

    @Baud:

    I am very anxious about NV. Ralston says Biden underperformed in Clark county and it will be very tight. Expects first reports today to be from rural counties, which may give Trump the lead.

  93. 93.

    germy

    @WaterGirl:

    I try to avoid the twitter random people, unless they’ve posted some funny comedy  (last night’s cat nodding along with bongo music, for example)

    If it’s political, I try to stick with people with real credentials (legal or news) rather than the hot take crowd.

  96. 96.

    hueyplong

    @Baud: I’m sort of making this up, but it’s possible that Biden isn’t hitting Hillary’s numbers in Vegas because voters there are anxious for the city to be open to tourists/suckers and they know Trump is less likely to lock them down than is Biden.

    [Sort of a hot take that isn’t actually very hot.]

  98. 98.

    germy

    @Barbara:  This is not a serious legal team.

    You’re right.  And that’s what gives me hope, that he’s scraping the bottom of the barrel.

    Kushner said he’s looking for a “James Baker” to help them with the legal stuff.  But they’ve got Rudy.

  102. 102.

    Barbara

    @James E Powell: My only comment is that the disparity in population between Washoe and Las Vegas, on the one hand, and every other county in Nevada, on the other, is just vast.   But I agree, it is certainly not mathematically impossible for Trump to take Nevada. That is the main reason I wouldn’t allow my husband to put champagne on ice.

    This is just a grueling process, the one we were really, really hoping to avoid.

  107. 107.

    artem1s

    @p.a.:

    That said, it is sad that there’s a substantial group of men of all races, especially white men without a college degree, who view Trump’s pathologies as strengths.

    Wonkette is covering some pretty awful viral video mixes of Biden that the GOP flooded FB and social media with. They targeted young BIPOC voters in swing states.  They are clips of Biden reading transcripts in hearings and are designed to make him look like a virulent racist douche. So we may want to give our young BIPOC male brethren a break here.  This kind of disinformation has worked pretty well on White people too.

    https://www.wonkette.com/gop-use-social-media-to-smear-biden-dems-as-racist-which-they-dont-believe-is-a-thing

    trigger warning about these clips – This is an official proceeding (and also 1985) so no one would’ve thought to use the “n-word” euphemism, which didn’t yet exist. (I think that’s another thing we owe the O.J. Simpson trial.) Biden himself isn’t dropping the “n-word” like a presumptuous white character in a Quentin Tarantino film.

  108. 108.

    Bill Arnold

    @artem1s:

    Wonkette is covering some pretty awful viral video mixes of Biden that the GOP flooded FB and social media with. They targeted young BIPOC voters in swing states. They are clips of Biden reading transcripts in hearings and are designed to make him look like a virulent racist douche.

    I will never forgive the GOP for these advertisements, and for the spanish-language compaigns in FL and Texas. (Those had Columbian involvement too, and maybe others.) These mean that we need not feel even a slight bit guilty about using ruthless electoral tactics. (Though truth in service of ruthlessness is best.)

  114. 114.

    artem1s

    @germy:

    Kushner said he’s looking for a “James Baker” to help them with the legal stuff.

    too bad for Jared, “James Baker” caliber lawyers don’t work for people who don’t pay their bills.

  115. 115.

    artem1s

    @WaterGirl:

    They’ve got Rudi and we’ve got Bob Bauer and an army of thousands of attorneys.

    Talk about bringing a knife to a gunfight.

    speaking of which, has anyone heard from Barr lately?  He’s been suspiciously quiet the last couple of days.

     

  119. 119.

    Don K

    @WaterGirl:

    Last I saw just a minute ago, Perdue is at 2,436,975, Ossoff + Libertarian are at 2,438,457, so yeah, looks like there will be a second runoff in GA.

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