Georgia Back On Our Minds

Stacey Abrams is running for governor of Georgia again.

The press, no doubt pushing a narrative to pleases their media-baron bosses with no regard to how it could threaten democracy in America, is already making Abrams the long shot in next year's gubernatorial election because she is a Democrat who will be running in a Republican year in a state where the voting laws have been tweaked to all but ensure a Republican victory.  I agree that, as of now, her election to the governor ship is highly unlikely - but not for the reasons above. Read on.

On the Republican side, Governor Brian Kemp - who rigged the last Georgia gubernatorial election in his own favor as the state's Secretary of State, the office with power over the voter registration lists - is facing a challenge from former U.S. Senator David Purdue, who has gotten himself in solid with Donald Trump while Trump is angry at Kemp because Kemp accepted Joe Biden's win of the state's electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election.  Kemp's supporters, however, point to his strong conservative record as a reason to give the governor another term.  Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, who is not running for re-election himself, supports Kemp and says it's time for the GOP to admit that Trump lost and move on.  Georgia Democrats are counting on a big Republican bloodbath in the primary campaign before the GOP picks a nominee in the Georgia gubernatorial primary on May 24 while the Democrats get behind Abrams and present a united front throughout.

So why do I think Abrams will be unsuccessful, if it's not because of trends favoring Republicans - again, pushed by media narratives - or voter-suppression laws?  Simple  It's because there are a lot of white people in Georgia who will go through hell and high water to make sure that a black woman will never sit in the governor's chair in Atlanta.

It comes down to that simple fact.  Sorry.