This is very encouraging:
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Early voting on Sundays has been one of the biggest fronts in the voting wars of recent years. Some of this past Sunday’s early voting numbers make the reason quite clear.
Data from two states that permit Sunday early voting, Georgia and North Carolina, show that 53 percent of the 25,000 early votes cast on Sunday were from black voters, compared with 27 percent of early voters across the two states since voting began for this year’s midterm elections.
“Souls to the Polls” drives are a big part of the explanation. Black churches often promote voting after services, sometimes even taking church members directly to the polls. Such drives are traditionally most popular on the Sunday before an election, when black turnout might be even higher than it was on Sunday. - New York Times, 10/29/14
Senator Kay Hagan (D. NC) and candidates Michelle Nunn (D. GA) and Jason Carter (D. GA) need high African American turnout in order to win and it's no wonder why the GOP has been doing everything they can to suppress the vote. Right now, Republicans, especially in Georgia, are getting very nervous. Here's a sign:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/...
The head of Coca-Cola Enterprises has given at least $100,000 to a super PAC aimed at beating Georgia Democratic Senate Candidate Michelle Nunn, and now he's seeing the results.
Georgia One PAC, registered early this past August, just made $215,000 independent expenditure for a TV ad that links Nunn to President Obama. The semi-animated 30-second spot that labels Nunn a fan of Obama, Obamacare and higher taxes. It's running in the Albany, Columbus and Chattanooga markets.
Pre-general election reports paint a partial figure of where Georgia One is getting its funding. The group had raised $125,000 as of Oct. 15—$100,000 of which came from John Brock, Chairman and CEO of Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Enterprises. It's only other donor was a private equity firm Phoenix Financial Holdings Inc., which specializes in leveraged buyouts and secondary direct investments. - National Journal, 10/28/14
Now it's clear that Georgia One is a pro-Perdue Super PAC and that Coca-Cola's headquarters are located in Atlanta. But here's something you may not know:
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/...
Our AJC colleague Aaron Gould Sheinin points out that Brock makes a good six-figure foil for former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who gave $350,000 to a pro-Nunn Super PAC that has attacked Republican David Perdue.
You may recall that Bloomberg is no friend to soda, or as it’s called in these parts, Coke. - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 10/29/14
Womp womp! But Nunn keeps on hitting Perdue on outsourcing:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Now, Nunn's campaign is releasing a four-minute version of the ad that it plans to send to supporters in hopes that they will pass it along to friends and fellow voters. Campaign aides believe the ad has been their most effective attack on Perdue and has helped bring the race to a statistical tie.
In the video, a woman recalls Perdue's arrival at Pillowtex and says that "There was a lot of promise when he came in, and then within eight months, he was gone."
Toward the end, the former workers are asked what they would want to tell Georgia voters.
"Beware. I don't see where he can help you at all," one man says.
"Do your homework and investigate what this guy has done. And look into the businesses he's been in, the money he's left with," says another woman. - Washington Post, 10/28/14
Now in the Georgia Governor's race, both Carter and Deal are campaigning all over the state:
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/...
Democrat Jason Carter and his famous grandfather made incursions into Gov. Nathan Deal’s backyard, signaling they wouldn’t concede any part of Georgia in the race to lead the state. The governor, meanwhile, trekked deep into Democratic territory to mine for votes with a message that the economy was on the rebound.
Former President Jimmy Carter campaigned for his grandson in Sandersville, the middle Georgia town where Deal grew up. After mentioning that he won Washington County when he ran for governor and president, the elder Carter said Georgia is failing to realize its “tremendous potential” under Republican leadership.
“We are going downhill instead of uphill,” he told a crowd at a Sandersville restaurant. “Why in the world does Georgia have the highest unemployment rate in the whole nation?”
At about the same time, Jason Carter was greeting voters as he strolled through downtown Gainesville, the governor’s base and an area Deal represented in Congress.
“Two votes in Gainesville are worth the same as two votes in Atlanta,” Jason Carter told my AJC colleague Jeremy Redmon. “When I’m the governor, I want people to know that I am going to be the governor for everyone, whether they voted for me or not. We are getting ready to win and it is going to be important for us to bring the state together.”
Deal stumped across the state in Blakely, a town of about 5,000 souls in a southwest Georgia county that narrowly went to President Barack Obama in 2012. It seemed an interesting choice for a Deal campaign event sandwiched between stops in Columbus and Albany. - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 10/28/14
And in North Carolina, this guy is trying to save Thom Tillis' (R. NC) campaign:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Mitt Romney is hitting the airwaves in North Carolina with a closing pitch for Republican Thom Tillis, who is in one of the closest and most consequential Senate contests in the country.
In a new commercial from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce shared with The Washington Post on Wednesday, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee calls Tillis is the candidate who will "shake up" Washington by "solving the mess of Obamacare" and boosting job creation efforts.
"From paperboy to short order cook to executive of one of America's great companies, Thom Tillis has proved he can get the job done," says Romney.
Romney, who narrowly won North Carolina, is scheduled to campaign for Tillis in Raleigh on Wednesday. He endorsed the state house speaker in May on the day before the primary election. - Washington Post, 10/29/14
We can win all three of these races. We just have to get the base out to the polls. Click here to donate and get involved with Nunn, Carter and Hagan's campaigns:
http://www.michellenunn.com/
https://carterforgovernor.com/
http://www.kayhagan.com/...