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hueymahl

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3. If I had to guess

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2014, 02:18 PM

Nov 2014

Zell Miller was a big part of Carter's loss. Him supporting Deal and calling him the "savior" of the Hope scholarship swayed a lot of undecideds, many of which only paid attention at the very end. Also, all the libertertarian votes appeared to go back home to the republican party because they did not want to "waste" their protest vote.

On the Michelle Nunn side, I can't tell you how many liberal-mined women said they just did not like her. Maybe they did not bother to vote.

Don't really know. Frustrating to watch. But I still think this may be the dying gasp of hard-core republican control. Things ARE changing, even if it is not as fast as we wish.

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SO.... what happened? [View all] groundloop Nov 2014 OP

Not sure because we were also seeing close exit polls. Dawgs Nov 2014 #1

We answered the polls but didn't vote upaloopa Nov 2014 #2

If I had to guess hueymahl Nov 2014 #3

one white male republican was reelected, another white male republican... Phentex Nov 2014 #4