She was the victim of blatant thievery and voter suppression.

She's determined to make voting in GA a more equitable process. I truly admire her. Whatever she decides to do in the future, I'll be here for it! She is, hands down, my favorite politician at this moment.

Abrams is an amazing woman. I hope she runs again.

I grew up in Florida

The others may have been legitimate if disappointing outcomes (though given Florida's history of cheating, we may never know for sure)

the polls and the pundits. O'Rourke and Abrams were such impressive candidates too, but, you know...Texas and Georgia.

her. That lady could be President one day.

She struck me as someone who will go far, which of course made her "loss" that much more dissapointing.

Honestly, I knew O'Rouke was a long shot, but his campaign was impressive.

because I think he was robbed. And I live here.

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What I love about her is that she is courageous, honest, and never condescending. She has a lovely smile and manners but she can spit fire when defending the rights of the people.

It's a special quality and I don't think that she "just happens to be a black woman" who possesses these traits.

If she hadn't had all the experiences in life that she has had she would not as much gravitas as she does.

because I'm in Florida... and of the 3 races, I thought Gillum had the best chances of winning with Florida being considered a purple state and other 2 being considered solidly red and in the republican column.

At least until we take over the state and make elections honest. Mailing a ballot in Florida from a heavily democratic district is just inviting being ratfucked.

Now that we know how the FBI interfered by withholding the charges to those culpable, it's even more bitter.

The attacks go on unabated.

Don’t teach here until the political climate changes.

25 Years in FL. He can retire after this year. It's bad now but will only get worse. I'm so glad my kids are already through the system.

What boggles my mind is how many teachers regularly vote R. Talk about voting against your own interests!

And just as they cost us the Senate in 2016, when a few senate candidates went down with Hillary, they cost us Nelson's Florida senate seat in 2018 when he went down with Gillum.

the alleged scandal as soon as it ceased to serve their purpose. Conveniently, the real culprits in Tallahassee city government were indicted soon after the election:

[link:https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/fbi/2018/12/12/scott-maddox-indicted-paige-carter-smith-corruption-charges-fbi-investigation-city-hall/2294099002/|

Not so much her loss but cheating by kemp was insane, purging hunderds of throusands from voter registration rolls; unprecedented conflict of interest, etc. I hope he’ll pay for what he did one day. If the lawsuit helps improve election integrity in GA, Abrams will have excellent shot at senator seat. I am inspired by her intelligence and civility.

All of those losses proved once again how far we are from becoming a true Democracy.

because I SO wanted to see Cruz defeated.

But his loss was not unexpected.

she had it so together but she was running against a criminal.

won if some idiots didn't allow that stupid ballot.

Beto won Nationwide love, Abrams will have her day in court, but Gillum just got screwed.

And DeSatan is a real piece of shit.

The others have won national attention. I don't think Gillum's profile was raised that high and that's a shame.

I never bought into the Beto hype because I never thought he had a chance. Didn't want to get my hopes up.

The corruption was insane.

such a good candidate for President and had promised not to run for President while he was senator. At least for the first term I thought it was. I wanted him to run for pres - right away. And set the mood for the democratic nomination race even if he doesn't win this time. But if he does win the nomination this time great! I think he has that much to teach. So i was probably more let down by Abrams losing as she was so cheated on by the republican canadidate for governor. All three are great. Lots of talent there.

Because I can't stand the bombastic Cruz.

hope each of them and more people decide to run in these areas. I'm not happy they lost their races but I'm trying to remain positive and focused on the goals of our progressive field.

Her opponent is crooked. He's another guy that I'd like to see leave office with his head down.

Crooked and he did not recuse himself. Best thing for him is debarment.

because of this: https://www.myajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/how-brian-kemp-turned-warning-election-system-vulnerability-against-democrats/iLOkpHK3ea39t8Eh4PCGxM/

The cheating was deliberate and reprehensible.

Both were inspiring and both had there win stolen. I admired them both and the change they could have brought to their states is heartbreaking with their loss.

I thought both Gillum and Abrams were cheated
Abrams was cheated more flagrantly so she was the one I was most outraged about.

I can't stand Cruz and really wanted O'Rourke to beat him.

But I'm crushed by Abrams--all the cheating out in plain sight--and Gillum too.

Because I thought they would be most likely to win.

O'Rourke came much closer then I expected - I wasn't really buying the hype and thought he might hit 45%.

There was so much overt voter supression that we really don't know who won.

Obviously I'm broken hearted about Beto, but he ran one hell of a race. He'll be back. If someone doesn't tap him for VP, maybe he'll challenge Cornyn in 2020.

Because of the perversion of democracy

KKKemp used his power to purge and disenfranchise over 1 million voters in Georgia. And he got away with it. It really sucks. And on top of that, we had a runoff on 12/4/18 for Secretary of State... but I guess that one was either stolen or people didn't show up like last time. So another GOP criminal will be overseeing our elections in 2020.

Second place is Gillum because when you looked at the 2 guys on stage at the debates, Desantis looked unfit. Like a drug addict. He had no real plan for Florida and only won because he's white.

I took those two elections personally because going in to the election, they both had the lead. Then somehow it flipped, likely due to shenanigans. We always knew O'Rourke was an uphill battle.

Gillum was up in every poll since since he got the nomination. O'Rourke I predicted would lose by 5 points and Abrams by 3. I was pretty close.

Lucy McBath’s victory in a previously deep red district was huge and helped a bit. Abrams was a great candidate and hopefully will run again.

But I live in Georgia.

slimy smirk on his face with his too big hair doo. aaargh.

A split my hurt three ways.

They were all the results I expected.

But the good news is that they are all great Democrats and they will be around for a long time. One loss doesn't end a career.

I think she would have won.

I didnt think the other two had much of a chance but Gillum seemed like he really had something going for him. He could probably challenge Rubio when that comes around and win now that there is no potential scandal looming.

NT

I'd probably feel differently if I lived in FL or GA.

Based on the pure odiousness of those they were facing.

Or the senate races. Taking the senate collectively, regardless of which specific dems won it, would have been a true upset. Of those, the specific upset I wanted was Texas. Beto is Beto, but I wanted the symbolism of the Texas win. It was a blue election. But a Democratic senator from Texas would have truly scared the Right, where what happened was more or less expected and arguably still within range of their being able to steal the next election.

and if the left hadn't been ignoring talk radio.......

ARIZONA 3 Arizona St. 2, Arizona 1

FLORIDA 20 Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2

GEORGIA 14 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2

From republicanradio.org

Nelson added in.

3 of the four were robbed, especially Stacey Abrams.

I like Abrams better and am heartsick about the continued disenfranchising of African Americans.
But Florida keeps stealing elections and 18 years of republican rule have destroyed integrity of state that I grew up in.
It had GOOD government in the 60s, 70s, 80s — Reuben Askew, Lawton Chiles, Bob Graham — and good laws protecting Everglades, honest transparent government.
I haven’t trusted the election machinery there since the negative 17,000 vote “glitch” in 2000.
I’m sure the GOP stole the state for President Bush in 2004, too.

....hacking, manipulating, and every form of election fraud. It's been that way since 2000.

They were all bad in their own ways and I did half expect him not to win anyway, whether for real or with the help of TX Republican fuckery. At least O'Rourke helped get rid of Culberson in my district.

The overwhelming stink of voter suppression in the other races is awful.

I was pulling for her to make history as the first black woman governor, but then her opponent used the powers of his office - that he refused to resign from as is proper - to cheat his way to "victory".

Of course, all of the losses you mentioned were painful. I will add Phil Bredesen to my list, as he was a good governor when I lived in Tennessee years ago and I really did not want that racist scumbag to win...but she did, because that state is still red as hell.

He told me The Harpie would win. Tiny's visit there worked and internal polling showed visit that brought it home.

is a close second because of the racism.

Her "end of campaign" speech was so powerful. While being heartbroken over her loss, I'm excited at the what may lie in her future.

Because Texans had a chance to have a really decent senator for once and they turned it down to stay with Deplorable Ted

and that race was such a driving force, and he is such a great guy

On a moral level, Abrams definitely

That whole thing is just despicable.

Then there is NC-9 ....

I think Gillum lost to cheating, as well. So did what's-his-name in the FL Senate race. I'm not so sure Beto wasn't robbed, too. But, yeah. The ratfucking Abrams got was blatant, and the fact that Kemp got away with it is beyond abhorrent.

Because she won, but was cheated. Gillum would have won if ex-felons had their rights restored previously. O'rourke last because he did lose the race, but won the war. Dems won gained back a lot of ground at the State level

The political scene in GA will be dealing with her for a very long time...until it turns blue.

Basically because Abrams had no chance when she was running against the very man who was in charge of overseeing the election. It was clear to me from the start that she would never take office, even if she got 60% of the vote. Beto had a real chance, I thought. Not just because it was a Texas election, but also because Cruz disgusts so many Texans. But there are still too many in Texas who just vote "R" whether it's a person or an armadillo. But Beto would have spoken out like Al Franken on the Senate floor, and THAT is something I miss, no matter what state the Senator is from.

In my precinct there were a bunch of Cruz people. And I live in San Antonio. I can't imagine rural areas.
Cruz is repulsive to us, but not to them.

Well, for the fifteen days a year I'm actually in Dallas these days, anyway........

went for Beto

The outlying areas not so much

A statewide Democrat has not won my precinct since I moved here in 1994. I live in the city limits.


The only Democrats that win this precinct are the ones that are either unopposed or opposed by Libertarians. Here are the totals for my state rep:
1126 (D) 533 (L) (under votes) 477

Here is an unopposed judge:
1221 (D) (under votes) 915

They would rather not vote than vote for a Democrat!!!

Here is Cruz vs Beto:
Cruz 1101 vs Beto 1009

Make no mistake, a governorship is a valuable asset during national elections, with a team in place, exceeding fundraising goals, campaigning, etc. A Democratic Florida could oversee (and correct) issues such as ballot design (a serious problem in FL), and also maintain oversight re the collection/tabulation of ballots.

...about him winning.

And because his opponent made slimy remarks against him and against AOC.

I'm sad that any of them lost. Each was running against a slimeball who no sane person would vote for. However, Gillum was running in Florida, which has shown in the past that it can't run a fair election when there's a chance a Democrat might win. Abrams was running in a state with a Secretary of State who was actively trying to keep people from voting for her. O'Rourke was running in Texas, a state I had higher hopes for. Texas does have voter id laws IIRC, but its voting process didn't seem as corrupt as Florida's or Georgia's. O'Rourke's loss was due to his fellow Texans deciding that they were happy keeping that smirking waste of space in the US Senate.

O'Rourke's loss also affected me more directly. Who governs Georgia or Florida doesn't have much impact on me directly (until the rest of the country has to bail them out because of their gross incompetence). Having Cruz in the US Senate does affect me directly because he has a vote in who gets confirmed to cabinet and judicial positions.

Indiana, ND, MO and FL

I so admire this woman.

She will be back, I am confident.

Because Florida is (supposed) to be a purple state yet they elected a far right SOB like DeSantis as well as Scott for the senate....Scott barely won his governor races in GOP wave years and pulled another rabbit out of the hat to beat Nelson....

It's extremely frustrating to see Florida keep electing these people...And, of yeah, Dump won there in 2016 as well...

I think by a 65-35 margin, to restore former felons voting rights....

But i bet an Acura to an apple that the incoming governor DeShithead tries to stall or obstruct this.....Florida where most elections are 51-49%, this ballot measure passed with such a sweeping margin that it shows that many Republican voters supported this to...

I'm in San Antonio and it was a heartbreaker to not send Grandpa Munster packing. But we have a wonderful mayor, Ron Nirenberg, who I've met, and we kicked that ridiculous religious freakazoid DINO Ivy Taylor to the curb.

If only San Antonio and Austin had been allowed to vote in the Texas senate race, we'd have O'Rourke today.