Marjorie Taylor Greene Holds Big Lead for Re-Election

[brooklynite]

Political Wire

An internal poll provided to the Washington Examiner shows Rep. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) with “an enormous lead in her 2022 midterm election primary” and “53% would back her regardless of who challenges.”

Greene holds a stunning 68% to 10% favorable rating, according to the poll.

Every day I get an email from someone saying they're going to beat MTG. I won't give them a penny. I'm under no illusions that she isn't actually popular in her district (R+28) and a shoe-in to win next year.

[hlthe2b]

1. Just when I thought I'd regained some faith in humanity...

Nope.

[jimfields33]

3. Doesn't like 95 percent of the house get re-elected every two years

I think it is a huge number.

[enough]

2. Depressing

[TheBlackAdder]

47. It's only a stunning lead if you don't watch this video and see why she got elected.

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[walkingman]

4. OMG - for real? Who likes that kind of crap?

[at140]

8. From the numbers from OP

majority of her district only. She is not popular much anywhere else.

[Effete Snob]

19. The people of Northwest Georgia who love her

[Bristlecone]

5. Think of all the bills she's sponsored and all she's done for GA....

Oh, nothing? We’ll she has my vote anyways. She’s a complete zero, but she’s OUR zero!

Sincerely,
GA voter who sits in a diner all day and complains.

[dem4decades]

17. Nothing? You can't be serious, think of all the liberal tears she's responsible for. That's all

that counts, 1000's of unvaccinated Georgians die, that's great as long as their being unvaccinated pisses off the liberals.

[BlueJac]

6. Stupid can't be fixed!

[Eyeball_Kid]

7. The optimist in me says:

MTG has peaked. She’ll be ensnared in the J6 investigation beginning in the first quarter of next year.

[PatSeg]

10. I hope you're right

Her enormous popularity is inconceivable to me. She doesn't even do her job.

[Takket]

9. there's no reason to believe she would lose

i know we'd like to believe she's some sort of aberration that slipped through the cracks, but she is not. she is the template of everything rethugs believe a politicians should be. she accomplishes nothing but is an unabashed opponent of "woke" and "cancel" culture (not that anyone can even tell you what that means). She opposes anything Democrats would do and no one who votes for her can name a single thing she stands for on issues that affect their lives.

When I say she is the template, I mean she is what rethugs will be looking for in their future candidates. Expect the number of MTGs to only expand in the coming years as the rethugs fascist takeover of government marches on. There will never be another McCain or Romney type as the GOP purges anyone anywhere near the center.

[Ninga]

11. ...an internal poll PROVIDED (source?) to the Washington Examiner....

Does the Washington Examiner do reporting, or do they only regurgitate and spin articles from other ultra conservative sites?

Just asking.

[Ninga]

16. Her newly drawn district.....

Until this week, when state lawmakers approved a final version of the maps, Greene’s 14th Congressional District spanned a dozen sparsely populated counties in the northwest corner of Georgia. It was overwhelmingly white, rural and Republican. In 2020, President Donald Trump — who lost Georgia and nationally — captured the district by nearly 50 percentage points.

The new boundaries make it slightly less conservative, yet still a safe haven for Republicans. But instead of snatching parts of rural Haralson and Pickens counties, the new boundaries curl around exurban Paulding County to pick up portions of southwest Cobb that include Austell and Powder Springs.

They also just happen to be some of the most solidly Democratic, and most diverse, portions of the suburban county. The area is home to the first Black mayor in Cobb County and the launching pad for the county’s first African American commissioner.


https://www.ajc.com/politics/sneak-attack-new-map-pairs-greenes-district-with-outraged-cobb-residents/BDCNTHB5CVBF7B4BJP6XKF2L6E/

[ibegurpard]

12. This is what Reblicans are now

People need to get over their fantasies that they're somehow going to come to their senses.
Maybe we can peel enough who are disgusted in marginal districts but the deep red ones? Talibornagains and christofascists prevail.

[bearsfootball516]

13. People have to realize she is in an extremely heavily red district.

Nobody is beating her there. It'd be stunning if she won by less than 30.

[hlthe2b]

21. Red doesnt HAVE to mean hate-filled and lunatic-embracing...

I'd still like to know what happened to the physician opponent that abruptly dropped out of the primary race against her in 2000 AND MOVED out of state. I smell a story not fully reported and I'd certainly expect nothing less than a truly ugly episode...

[Mr. Ected]

14. If DOJ thinks she aided in the insurrection

Her freedom, much less her lead in the polls, will be threatened.

[DonCoquixote]

15. her county needs

to be cut off from anything the govt gives them...Starve the beast!

[Dial H For Hero]

20. Starve those who didn't vote for her as well?

[maxrandb]

49. I would say yes

Sure, it may be cruel, but isn't having this absolute amphibian turd in Congress even crueler?

I guess the reason that folks say; "fuck that district that voted 70% for that racist asspickle" is because she's a racist fucking Asspickle.

We are not going to reach these people. We are not going to reason with them. There should be consequences for people sending the liked of MTG to represent them. If not, they will just keep sending traitorous POS to Congress.

Maybe, instead of worrying about the economic harm to the people in her district that didn't vote for her, maybe those people need to have a serious chat with their "neighbors" that did vote for her.

I would encourage Dems in her district to move. Those that can't move should dedicate themselves to spending their money elsewhere and putting as many white supremacist in her district it of business.

It floors me when I hear that we "can't boycott, or inflict pain on these fucking districts, because it will harm the 25% that don't support her".

The voters that voted for MTG...AND I MEAN ALL OF HER VOTERS would gladly slit the throats of any Dem in their district while they sleep.

[Dial H For Hero]

52. I can only presume that you will acknowledge that your proposal doesn't have the slightest chance of

actually coming to pass.

[maxrandb]

53. Sure, but I would like to know what corporations and businesses are based in her district

and start working to affect their bottom lines.

I will say this until I am blue in the face; "NONE of this shit...the racism, the misogyny, the fascism, the Union busting, the hatred and the cruelty...NONE OF IT...will stop, unless and until their are financial hardships for the corporations and businesses that fund it"

Sending the likes of MTG to Congress needs to be unprofitable.

We can pretend all we want that it's going to be hearts and minds and reason that changes things, but it's NOT.

[Dial H For Hero]

62. Easy enough to Google it, I presume.

[Tomconroy]

18. My in- laws live there. It's a very lonely place to be a Democrat.

[Effete Snob]

22. Now do Kim Jong Un

"An internal poll provided to the Washington Examiner..."

I'll betcha Arirang has gotten some favorable indicators for Kim too.

[ColinC]

23. New district?

[Atticus]

24. I will wait to see who her Democratic opponent is.

There is such a thing as a "self-fulfilling prophesy and some fights need to be fought even when you're greatly outnumbered.

[leftstreet]

25. She ran unopposed last time

The Dem candidate dropped out

[DBoon]

33. Didn't the Dem drop out after threats to their family?

[leftstreet]

34. No

"personal and family reasons" but if that included threats he never stated so

He moved shortly after

[Atticus]

41. Maybe because they lacked funding. nt

[brooklynite]

28. "some fights need to be fought even when you're greatly outnumbered."

...and sometimes, its better to find a fight that's more winnable.

[Atticus]

43. I contributed to Hillary in 2016 and still consider it money well spent. nt

[brooklynite]

55. While Hillary lost, she was never a hopeless cause.

[Atticus]

56. It is difficult to respond without violating the TOS, so I will simply inquire just

how you acquired such unerring wisdom which enables you to characterize opposing mtj a "hopeless cause"; not just a "long shot" or an "uphill battle", but a "hopeless cause".

Apparently, Howard Dean's "50 state strategy" was embarrassingly foolish for advocating that we field and support a candidate in EVERY race and concede nothing.

[brooklynite]

59. How can I identify a hopeless cause?

First, understand that I collect a lot of data which I crunch to identify races worth supporting and races which I’ll ignore. I look at the PVI of the District, the ratings of analysts of Charlie Cook and Larry Sabato, the relative abilities to raise money, etc.

In the case of Hillary Clinton, she was, in aggregate clearly competitive, and in a system where the popular majority selected the candidate, would have won. The flaw in her campaign (which I’ve been told by multiple State Party leaders) was assuming 1) that a voter for Obama would vote for her (which lead to not reaching out to them to confirm that point — I worked the lead-up to the Election in Ohio and discovered that wasn’t the case) and 2) framing her campaign message around Trump’s negatives rather than her positives.

In the case of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the reality is that her district has been gerrymandered so much (R+28 as I mentioned before) that absent a criminal conviction or a massive moral scandal, it’s virtually impossible to find enough Democratic + open-minded I+R votes to compete.

[Atticus]

66. Perhaps you believe that condescension and name dropping are a substitute for

a reasoned response.

I do not.

[brooklynite]

67. And what was unreasonable about my response?

And whose name did I drop?

[PortTack]

29. Exactly! I give a little bit to Marcus Flowers. It takes a lot of gumption to put yourself out there

And I fell he deserves support! Especially when you’re so outnumbered

[brooklynite]

68. And which competitive candidate in another district did you NOT give to?

That's the hard reality of electoral politics.

Our goal isn't to beat Greene or Boebert or Gaetz or Jordan; it's to win a majority of seats in the House.

[uponit7771]

54. right ?!

[alphafemale]

26. Her district is about hard white as they come.

Sorry.

[roamer65]

40. Hard core deplorable.

That’s my preferred name for them.

Hillary was right.

[Initech]

30. Fucking gross.

[Progressive Jones]

31. Obviously, her district has an infestation of

right wing , trump loving,, redneck trash. Probably mostly related through incestuous inbreeding.

[smirkymonkey]

58. Only 15% of people in her district have a college education.

There is no way a Democrat has a chance in hell against her there.

[Progressive Jones]

64. Yeah, those Democrats with their reading skills and pro-education agenda just aren't

right for our little county.

I don't think it's so much the low numbers of college education.
There are plenty of educated Washington haters, and racists.
This is just part of something I rant about constantly: There are pockets of confederate traitor residue down there that will never, ever evolve.

Thankfully, the State of Georgia is now a train that will not stop rolling toward a progressive future.

[Dirty Socialist]

60. How dare you?

The Dalton, GA folks would get real upset with you denigrating inbreeding.

[Progressive Jones]

65. * queue banjo player nt

[dawg]

32. We mustn't get distracted by shiny objects.

Who cares if the squidbillies of NW Georgia send their (carpetbagger) village idiot back to D.C.

We have actual competitive districts to focus upon.

If anything, MTG is useful to us on a national level as a cautionary example of what a Republican House would look like.

[Mike Nelson]

35. I think...

... she would only lose in that district if she announced she was having an abortion and becoming transgender.

[BluesRunTheGame]

36. Shoo-in

[Emile]

37. Gerrymandered districts allow monsters a seat in Congress!

[LiberalFighter]

38. That part of the state is not likely to vote Democratic.

[Blue Owl]

39. Not so much 'winning' as 'Darwinning'

Maybe she'll win this battle, but I doubt she'll win the war...

[bluestarone]

42. How can she lose?

Hard to lose when you're a SNAKE living in a SNAKE PIT, with mostly SNAKES voting in that district. Reminds me of a HUGE bunch of GARTER snakes wrapped in a ball!

[PCIntern]

44. I'm certain that she's vaccinated so

you can’t hope for that…

[MFM008]

45. Proving

Where the morons are.

[Dirty Socialist]

46. Dalton, Georgia

Shithole town full of shithole people

[Dirty Socialist]

48. The Squidbillies are set in the Georgia hills

‘Nuff said

[andym]

50. Not surprising-- Republicans who are the majority in her district have been brainwashed

The repercussions throughout the country of increased partisanship and the quest for power without scruples by the GOP are serious and damaging to the country.
Here's a story of how her kind of supporters are ruining lives.

https://news.yahoo.com/first-fought-masks-then-over-161832247.html

[wellst0nev0ter]

51. This is what a weak opposition party looks like

[brooklynite]

61. No, this is what a concentration of conservative Republicans in a district looks like.

[DFW]

57. Not sure what her footwear has to do with anything, but.....

I do indeed fear that she is a shoo-in for re-election. It's not the sort of district you or I would want to live in, but there are more districts than one in this country that easily match that description.

[a kennedy]

63. OFFS.......really??? That's it, I'm gonna try to get into my lineage country....IRELAND.