Only 37% of Georgians approve of fraudulently elected governor Brian Kemp - Polidicks

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/ajc-poll-shows-deeply-divided-georgia-and-tough-numbers-for-kemp/8dqIoXp1j5o0kujop427PN/ After an intensely partisan race for Georgia governor, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Friday shows Republican Brian Kemp may have a difficult task ahead in healing the state’s deep political divides. The newly minted governor’s approval rating sits at just 37.2 percent of registered Georgia voters, with nearly half of respondents giving him negative reviews. Only about one-third of women approve of Kemp, along with just 10 percent of black voters. That’s offset partly by his popularity among his party’s base. About three-quarters of Republicans have a positive view of him, along with 80 percent of conservatives. That contrasts with Stacey Abrams, the Democrat Kemp narrowly defeated in November. A slim majority of Georgians — 51.9 percent — have positive views of her. That includes about 60 percent of women, two-thirds of moderates and 90 percent of black voters. Kemp’s numbers largely mirror those of President Donald Trump, who was the model for his campaign for governor. Slight less than 38 percent of Georgia voters approve of the president, who won the state by 5 points in 2016, and just 1 in 5 independents back him. Among Republicans, though, he has an 86 percent approval rating.

This shit makes me sad. Brian Kemp was very obviously fraudulently elected and everyone knows it, yet this chode is the guy in the office. No mechanism to keep him out, he's just in. We used to make fun of countries that did this bullshit.

We still do. It's just that now, we're one of them.

This is nothing new in the area. Georgia used to have insanely rigged elections and still does after that race traitor Thomas gutted the Voting Rights act.

I read 'Georgia' as the country, and I couldn't help but feel like 'Brian Kemp' wasn't a very Eurasian name. Reading is hard sometimes.

The fact only 37% support Trump as well in freaking Georgia is pretty nuts.

The Guarantee Clause of the Constitution (in Article 4 Section 4) mandates the federal government guarantee to each state "a republican form of government". The Supreme Court has held that enforcing this guarantee is a duty of Congress - which was used during the Civil War and Reconstruction to radically overhaul state governments. Therefore, I believe in a fully-functional government, Congress would pass legislation declaring either Kemp's election to be wholly illegitimate, and force voting overhaul and new elections, or even to declare the entire government of Georgia to have failed, and force a rewrite of the entire state constitution. I think that's not going to happen because our federal government also is clearly non-functional or at least severely impaired. We're facing general problems of party politics run amok, which the framers of the Constitution did not think would be a severe problem and so did not design the system to withstand.

The shutdown is very quickly ruining him. Boil away all the water and all you’ll have left is the salty shit at the bottom that will always be there.

That's because Georgia is fairly diverse as southern states go. Less than 60 percent of the population is white, and you'll probably be hard pressed to find more than a sliver of non-whites that approve of Trump.

Which is, coincidentally, the preferred foriegn policy of Tennessee.

"Glass deserts" is the term I've traditionally heard (three guesses which part of the world they're referring too), but yeah, you're right on the money.

I haven't heard that too much, but then again I live about an hour east of Nastyville so I'm not all that far off in hickville. And I also tend to avoid social interaction, so it's entirely possible I've just walked right past the idiots that wanna glass an entire region of the world...

It's just that now, we KNOW we're one of them. I suspect that America's elections haven't been quite as fair historically as we'd like to believe.

Pick up a history book and you'll find oodles and oodles of corruption, particularly in the cities and below the Mason Dixon line. Both Kennedy and Nixon committed voter fraud in 1960 which is why Nixon didn't challenge the result.

The ones I heard use it were former co-workers. That's one of the reasons I had to quit my job: they kept getting worse in my second and final year of employment there, in large part due to the introduction of a new co-worker in our department that was a certified Alex-Jones believing lunatic. Between that and all the other things that changed between the first and second year, the physical symptoms of my anxiety were so agonizing that it took me over six months to recover AFTER I quit.

ya but he then went and committed a far worse form of fraud in 68 and won

Mmm. I feel like the same thing is hanging over my head right now, but for unrelated reasons. Also just left a shitty job for one that's only 20 minutes from my house. I do see a rather startling amount of MAGA bumper stickers around town, so....yeaahh.

This is why we need to rename one or both of them I propose we refer to the country as Sakartvelo since that's its name in the native language, and refer to the state as Sherman because they deserve another march to the sea.