Boring, chaotic, concerning — and, in at least one case, described with an expletive after the word “cluster.” Those are some of the ways Georgia’s current campaign season is being characterized as the state heads toward the November midterm elections.
That assessment comes from a recent political roundtable featuring Devin Barrington-Ward, a progressive community organizer and managing director of the Black Futurists Group; Greg Bluestein, politics reporter and author with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Fred Hicks, an Atlanta-based campaign strategist and demographer; and Saba Long, executive director of the Atlanta Civic Circle. Each offered insights and observations as the May 19 primary approaches and early voting gets underway.
At the top of this year’s ballot is the race for U.S. Senate. Republicans are vying for the chance to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, hoping to flip the seat in November. Another major contest is the race for Georgia’s next governor. The state has not elected a Democrat to the governor’s mansion since the tenure of its 80th governor, who served from 1999 to 2003.
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