Will Georgia remain Blue?

After last week, there are many questions for Georgia. What will the state’s final numbers look like, post-recount? Will Georgia remain Blue? Why did Georgia turn Blue? What’s going to happen with the Senate run-off races? Will Georgia, then, remain Blue?

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Those of us paying attention & the democratic grass-roots organizations in the South are not surprised that Georgia flipped blue [even if it doesn’t stay blue, post-recount, but that likelihood is very slim.]

In what has seemed like a large sea of “red”, Georgia has fostered “blue” strongholds for years — with Atlanta and Savannah’s circles growing, growing, and popping off new little holdouts — Athens, Macon, Augusta. Do not forget that Jimmy Carter, was born here, in Plains, Georgia. Remember that we were the only Southern state to flip blue, for one of our own, in 1976. Sumter, Georgia, the county Plains is located in, voted Biden with a slim margin, Ossoff with a slim margin, and Warnock with a larger margin. Warnock, if either of the two democratic candidates stand a chance to win, seems the likelier of the two, having already fought off a large number of candidates to secure his position in the run-off, and resonating with a larger percentage of the…