White voter registration in Ga. dips below 60 percent
For the first time, white voters in Georgia will make up less than 60 percent of all “active” registered voters in the state, according to statistics just released by Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
White voter registration, which stood at 63 percent in 2008, has dropped to 59 percent of the 5.3 million signed up to cast ballots in this year’s presidential contest. African-American registration stands at 30 percent, just as it did in 2008.
The difference comes from the growing pool of voters who decline to identify themselves by race, or describe themselves as something other than white, black, Asian-Pacific, Hispanic-Latino, or Native American. That group grew from 3.6 percent in 2008 to 8 percent today.
The decline of the white vote in Georgia has been slow but steady. In January 2001, whites made up 72 percent of registered voters; in January 2007, they were 67 percent. Blacks in 2001 made up 26 percent of the electorate, and 27 percent in 2007.
As a whole, the number of registered voters is up 3 percent over 2008, when it stood at 5,198,971 . Here’s a demographic breakdown of the Georgia voters eligible to pick the next president, vote on a proposed constitutional amendment on charter schools, and elect two members of the Public Service Commission next Tuesday:
– Black female: 946,510
– Black male: 658,870
Combined black vote: 1,605,380 (30 percent of registered vote) (30 percent in October 2008)
– White female: 1,683,715
– White male: 1,484,820
Combined white vote: 3,168,535 (59 percent) (63 percent in 2008)
– Asia-Pacific female: 37,840
– Asia-Pacific male: 34,504
Combined Asia-Pacific vote: 72,344 (1.3 percent)
– Hispanic-Latino female: 49,934
– Hispanic-Latino male: 41,786
Combined Hispanic-Latino vote: 91,720 (1.7 percent) (1.4 percent in 2008)
– Native American female: 1,056
– Native American male: 841
Combined Native American vote: 1,897 (.03 percent)
Other voters: 413,137 (8 percent) (3.6 percent in 2008)
Total: 5,353,013 (up 3 percent over 2008)
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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203 comments Add your comment
Gary Burley
October 30th, 2012
5:26 pm
And this is why Georgia will be in play for Democrats within the next 10 years…
Jerry Gonzalez
October 30th, 2012
5:28 pm
The Latino Vote is under counted. In 2008, GA missed 50,000 Latinos. Please see here for details: http://www.galeo.org/report.php?report_id=0000000163
Drew
October 30th, 2012
5:38 pm
I’m sure that this is nothing that still more unnecessary and onerous registration and voting regulations can’t fix.
Doug
October 30th, 2012
5:43 pm
Who cares
JB
October 30th, 2012
5:49 pm
Whites are leaving the state while there is an influx of Blacks from the Northeast.
Charles Douglas Edwards
October 30th, 2012
5:57 pm
America is a democracy !!!
We would like to encourage all eligible citizens in the State of Georgia to register to vote and VOTE.
Your voice and vote counts.
White Female
October 30th, 2012
5:58 pm
Interesting that women vote more than men in every racial breakdown. So, why do they want to vote for the GOP who is trying to govern their reproductive organs?
J Throckmorton Malcontent
October 30th, 2012
5:58 pm
Ah, blood to blood
Ah, players to ladies
The last percentage count was eighty
You don’t need the bullet when you got the ballot
Are you up for the downstroke, CC?
Chocolate city
Are you with me out there?
GAININ’ ON YA!
Jussthinkin'
October 30th, 2012
6:03 pm
JB – you are correct. This white family is long gone (after 41 years!) as soon as the final sale papers have been settled and the money changes hands. It hurts but the demographics and politics have ruined this state and there ain’t no hope for the future. In 10 years Georgia will be among the Arkansas-Mississippi “also-rans.”
native atlantan
October 30th, 2012
6:04 pm
There goes the neighborhood we use to call Georgia.
Don Davis
October 30th, 2012
6:06 pm
The Dems class warfare strategy will continue to pay off. As more and more people line up at the trough, and vote for those who provide more feed, the Dems are a lock winner, not just in Georgia, but nationwide. I predicted this years ago. The tipping point has been reached. The demographics are a snowball rolling downhill, gaining mass and velocity.
Michael
October 30th, 2012
6:11 pm
Let the stupid ignorant racist comments begin. Thanks AJC
Rev Al
October 30th, 2012
6:16 pm
“The difference comes from the growing pool of voters who decline to identify themselves by race, or describe themselves as something other than white, black, Asian-Pacific, Hispanic-Latino, or Native American”……..I and many others learned this long ago…don’t let the racial overlords put you in a group then take your vote for granted…..
native atlantan
October 30th, 2012
6:17 pm
GA welcomes all those hard working folks that contribute to the states economy, not those that are looking for as many services as possible at taxpayers expense, or those that never get off welfare or unemplyment payments. btw, GA will soon be sending out debit cards instead of unempluyment checks to cut down on the expense of putting money in too many folks hands. Maybe I should just quit working or get let go too, and start getting my share.
Mayrenest
October 30th, 2012
6:18 pm
Totally agree with Michael!!! Let the ignorance begin…smdh
Amy Amor
October 30th, 2012
6:22 pm
What is WRONG with you white people?
Georgia
October 30th, 2012
6:22 pm
What’s the percentage of white single mothers who vote versus the percentage of single mothers who vote while black? (remember Jim Wooten? I think the right honorable Kyle Wingfield premises his partisanship on that data table too)
RGB
October 30th, 2012
6:24 pm
White Female,
Though it may break your heart, Republicans don’t wake up in the morning thinking about your reproductive organs. Can you name a single individual who has been denied oral contraceptives or abortions? Do you see any major candidate even campaigning on either of these issues? The answer is “no you don’t”.
It speaks volumes that OCs and abortions are front-and-center in your mind. Birth control pills are available at Wal-Mart for $9, and if you use them reliably you won’t have to end the life of an unborn child to avoid inconvenience to you.
For once in your life, use your gray matter–rather than your genitalia–to make decisions about whom is the better candidate.
You attempt to demean women when you bring up “reproductive organs” as the element of greatest importance. It may surprise you, but many women are concerned about the real double-digit unemployment rate in this country and the mountainous debt that will soon erode or eliminate social programs on which many people rely.
Thankfully, most women think using the facilities above their neck rather than below their waist. But there are exceptions and yours is duly noted.
Worried Republican
October 30th, 2012
6:26 pm
I’m a worried republican female from GA & I will not be voting republican this year. I’m very concerned that our candidate has not given clear concise details of any of his policies, budget, etc. I do not feel anyone should be dictating a woman’s reproductive rights. I do however, agree that we should have more equal acces to health care (I support OBAMACARE). I am saddened that our party does not have a true candidate in this election.
David H
October 30th, 2012
6:28 pm
And how many of those non-white registrations are dead people or family pets? Not that this person of paleness is a tad cynical…
Kris
October 30th, 2012
6:33 pm
Add me to the list, Sell the house take the money and run out of GA faster than a lobbyist can line the pocket of SHADY DEAL.
BTW unless I have to I never revel what race I belong to and as for sex…I always answer yes….
RGB
October 30th, 2012
6:40 pm
Worried “Republican”:
Nice try, but try your masquerade on Halloween.
Mr. Obama has no economic plan for the next 4 years and one cannot be specific about a plan that he does not have. Governor Romney wants to encourage business growth by lowering the breakeven point for all businesses. It’s a simple but compelling concept and history shows that it works.
And as the majority of Americans know, Obamacare makes healthcare more expensive thereby reducing access and quality.
Mr. Obama deserves to be fired for one simple reason: poor job performance.
jconservative
October 30th, 2012
6:44 pm
“Turn out the lights, the party’s over………….!”
cc
October 30th, 2012
6:47 pm
According to the latest information available, whites comprise 60.0% of voters and blacks account for 29.52%. The remainder of voters make up the remaining 10.48%.
These are the actual numbers as of March 1, 2012:
Demographic Total Voters Percentage
Black Female 997,989 17.19
Black Male 714,920 12.32
White Female 1,842,008 31.73
White Male 1,641,019 28.27
Asian-PI Female 41,215 0.71
Asian-PI Male 38,109 0.66
Hispanic-LT Female 52,524 0.90
Hispanic-LT Male 46,014 0.79
Indian Female 995 0.017
Indian Male 837 0.014
Other 429,182 7.39
Total 5,804,812 100
http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/voter_registration/vrgraphs.htm
Don Davis
October 30th, 2012
6:49 pm
Are you uncomfortable with the truth? Libs are results oriented. They don’t care about process. So, enjoy your victory. Just don’t pretend.
cc
October 30th, 2012
6:51 pm
Worried Republican:
Who are you kidding? You were an Obama fan from the get-go . . .
Fernando
October 30th, 2012
6:51 pm
Latino here.We will own this state before it is all over with our people. We will decide this coming electionyou wait and see.Legal or illegal. You folks let us steal everything from you,we have not paid into this country but we will take everything you give or let us steal..like the election.
Stupid white people.
onechris
October 30th, 2012
6:54 pm
so looks like Georgia could be in for major changes soon! I am curious of the age brackets for the voters? I bet several are nearing being very old thus once they die the change will happen fast … FORWARD
I sang dixie...
October 30th, 2012
6:56 pm
I think people should have to own property, and pay income taxes in order to vote…
Kris
October 30th, 2012
6:56 pm
Fernando, Y;all can have GA…You will have to fight the corrupt politicians for what is left…
Good fishing spot in Sonny dodo town.
Save Mama (Big Bird)
Re-Elect President OBAMA
Gina
October 30th, 2012
7:00 pm
Sad that in this day and time, we still worry so much abt people’s ethnic. Can’t we just be Americans.
cc
October 30th, 2012
7:00 pm
“The Latino Vote is under counted. In 2008, GA missed 50,000 Latinos. ”
Maybe when they tried to count them the Latinos thought they were being asked for their green card and they disappeared?
cc
October 30th, 2012
7:04 pm
“Fernando, Y;all can have GA”
Kris is leaving Georgia?
Where’s Big Bird?
Get the barbecue sauce and fire up the smoker!
Romney/Ryan 2012!
Guido
October 30th, 2012
7:04 pm
Well said, RGB. Bravo.
wumpy fish
October 30th, 2012
7:07 pm
Can we still have Nascar?Will this raise Georgia’s collective I.Q., will Governor Shady try to profit financially from this?Will cousins still be married when they visit Alabama?
cc
October 30th, 2012
7:07 pm
onechris:
You know what you can do with your “FORWARD”, don’t you?
Kris
October 30th, 2012
7:12 pm
@ cc I found you a big bird,,,
1. a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds …
http://www.gourmetostrich.com/recipes.html
Be sure to keep a bucket of water or working garden hose nearby
independent
October 30th, 2012
7:12 pm
The only whites who count in GA and the GOP are men, so they have been fewer than 60% for quite some time. It is just taking a long time for the other voters to all realize that they are second class citizens in this State.
cc
October 30th, 2012
7:14 pm
Kris:
Are you still “under the weather”? (This is a serious question!)
Kris
October 30th, 2012
7:18 pm
cc…slowley getting netter. Thanks for asking.
OnceARepub
October 30th, 2012
7:20 pm
Worried Republican I totally agree. This is the worse candidate by far for our party. Mitt is a big contradiction whose views change by the minute. Once he opens his mouth, it’s like you have to grace yourself and keep your fingers crossed hoping he doesn’t embarrass the GOP any more than he already has. He lost my grandfathers (a disabled vet who make ends met off govt assistance) vote with the 47% comment and then came with the binder full of woman’s statement. Not to mention the fact that he wants to control our bodies and has yet to give one detail of his 5 star plan that we are supposed to believe in just off his word. And he’s against FEMA which i can’t understand! The GOP must do better with their selections! Ryan as President if something happens to Mittbis an even scarier thought. I have to go with Obama Biden this run!
vw
October 30th, 2012
7:20 pm
Typical Atlanta Urinal and Constipation on top of the stats.
tyrone
October 30th, 2012
7:21 pm
where the white woman at?
cc
October 30th, 2012
7:25 pm
Kris, hope you’re well soon! I’ll invite to you to my first (and only!) Big Bird Barbecue Bash to be held on Thanksgiving Day. Will be leaving shortly for Sesame Street to bag the dinner. Wonder how you dress a Big Bird? I’ll figure it out . . .
Mabel, where’s my dang shotgun shells?
DBCOOPER
October 30th, 2012
7:27 pm
Who’s going to pay the bills?
Kris
October 30th, 2012
7:28 pm
@ Once
This is what Ronmesia Cut backs and Deregulation will cause.
“ A second Massachusetts compounding pharmacy surrendered its license after state inspectors found “significant” issues that could affect sterility, state health officials said.”
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/health/massachusetts-pharmacy-license/index.html?hpt=he_c2
Me too.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Larry
October 30th, 2012
7:29 pm
So, this demographic will most certainly vote for Obama:
Hollywood (you know those experts on life and government whose only contribution is a skill of pretending, “acting,” to be someone else?).
Government dependents
Atheists
Sexual perverts (yes, an attraction by one male to another’s male’s fecal filled rectum is perversion).
Double-digit IQ’s
Pimps like Biden, Obama, Clinton, Reid, Pelosi, etc., that has never held a job in the private sector and is empowered by the prostitutes that elect them so they can give you money for their vote.
Think I’ll vote for the businessman with good morals, values, standards and proven success managing money…his and ours!
Porkchopicus of Borg
October 30th, 2012
7:30 pm
RGB said — “For once in your life, use your gray matter–rather than your genitalia–to make decisions about whom is the better candidate.”
“Thankfully, most women think using the facilities above their neck rather than below their waist. But there are exceptions and yours is duly noted.”
White Female, please bear in mind that RGB’s *insulting you* for expressing what’s on your mind as regards the upcoming election.
Make up your mind in your own way and give his obloquy the consideration it deserves: none whatsoever.
Hiram
October 30th, 2012
7:33 pm
Fernando
October 30th, 2012
6:51 pm
“Latino here.We will own this state before it is all over with…”
And, you owe it all to the GOP elite – the carpet barons in Dalton, the chicken barons in Gainesville, the onion barons in S. Georgia, and it’s all abstract to the GOP serfs, who point their fingers at the Democrats. The disconnect is laughable.
.
S
October 30th, 2012
7:36 pm
Romney has said he is pro-life, Paul Ryan is pro-life to the extreme. Paul Broun of GA. was the Father of bill HR212 which could virtually do away with some birth control, its a Personhood bill that even backward Mississippi voted against. VP pick Paul Ryan co-signed this extreme bill along with 63 other Republican extremist in congress, Westmoreland, Kingston, just some on that list. This 112th Republican Controlled Congress has done nothing but try to pass bills taking Women’s rights away for the last two years. Anyone thinking differently must have been living under a Rock these last two years. Yes, Women would like nothing better than to be able to think of Jobs, the economy, their families, their health-care but when we have clueless Neanderthal Men trying to tell us what we can and can not do with our own personal business, and our Health-care, then they’ve gone too far and their going to hear about it from all the Women in this Country. Just who do they think they are? Those of us who have been paying attention, know exactly what these Extremist have been up to and we are going to make sure everyone of these Extremist will be voted out of office, if not this year then at the next election. These types of Politicians are not fit for dog catcher let alone Public Office!
All Women get out and vote, we have the majority, vote like your life and your families lives depends on it because it very well could.
White male
October 30th, 2012
7:39 pm
White Female, please…. please show some respect to the brains inside white females! Your comment is disgraceful and pitiful!
cc
October 30th, 2012
7:43 pm
“White Female, please bear in mind that RGB’s *insulting you* for expressing what’s on your mind as regards the upcoming election.”
She didn’t need your advice. She’s already decided how she will vote and it isn’t Republican. I do absolutely and totally agree with RGB, though, in all aspects but particularly when he said, “Though it may break your heart, Republicans don’t wake up in the morning thinking about your reproductive organs. Can you name a single individual who has been denied oral contraceptives or abortions?”
Unfortunately, she is either “programmed” dimocrat or has fallen victim to the propaganda of the leftist news media and folks like you.
Buymadeinusjobs
October 30th, 2012
7:45 pm
GA Voters:: Florida and Ohio have gotten about 200 million dollars each in investments in advertising on radio, TV, newspaper, many trips by politicians, their buddies all the media. They spend money in hotels, restaurants, gas stations etc muliplier effects, nice to have that money .Everybody knows Georgia is red state, always vote Republican so vote for President Obama this time, turn Georgia into swing state then get attention/money like Florida.
Georgia
October 30th, 2012
7:45 pm
I have a question. Why isn’t early voting considered pre-owned votes? Also, is it fair to release early voting poll numbers when they don’t call the election till California has had an opportunity to vote.
billyBobjacket
October 30th, 2012
7:50 pm
Maybe the scariest thing is that people who read this blog may actually vote, despite having their intellectual capacity diminished a little bit each time the read it.
Huckaberry Hound
October 30th, 2012
7:52 pm
You people do realize Georgia was Democratic from its existence until 1994. Its was Democrats that whipped black a$%!! in the streets, cracked John Lewis over the head and hung them from trees, also put in place separate but equal. Good ol Lester Maddox was a stomp raving Democrat and the black people involved with this party get the crumbs at their table and have no real power in the legislative agenda of Georgia or never will.
Hiram
October 30th, 2012
7:53 pm
cc/td
October 30th, 2012
7:43 pm
“Unfortunately, she is either “programmed” dimocrat or has fallen victim to the propaganda of the leftist news media and folks like you.”
You’re too funny. Have you considered being a comedian?
jay
October 30th, 2012
8:00 pm
Take Atlanta out of Georgia and you got Utah, a state full out imbreeding wacked out Bible thumpers on welfare.
midnight garden
October 30th, 2012
8:03 pm
Can’t wait for Ga to turn blue. Its inevitable and really it would be better if it happened sooner before they have all women submit to transvaginal probes to please the anti woman, antiscience nitwits under the Ga dome. We need people who are thinking about the future. Not people thinking about things that were decided a generation ago. Also, before they privatize every function of the government like schools, to some billionaire from another state.
mark
October 30th, 2012
8:04 pm
As a white mid dleclass, educated, professional, I want the govt out of my life, I find it hard to vote for the GOP who wants to dictate, what I or someone else does to their bodies. this includes the war on drugs!! The GOP preaches GOD!!! And ignores science, Strike 2!! The GOP believes that it is a white vs the world. Guess What GOP, The US is not the only country on the planet! Strike 3!! Get A Life GOP!! Sure the whites can move!! To the north!! Where unions, science and freedom reins. And those Libs, live in Freedom!! Away from back room Deals, and God Fearing Chippers.
An observer
October 30th, 2012
8:07 pm
All this race stuff is crazy. i am a decline to state race voter. Guess what race I am? Hispanics can be white, black, or Asian. Blacks are mostly a mixture of white and black.
Is it the author’s assumption that whites are republicans, blacks are democrats, Latinos are what?, and Asians are what?
Delta
October 30th, 2012
8:12 pm
While you in-fight for the White vote or Black vote we are still coming to America. The next President in 2016 or 2020 may be Hispanic.
Tap Out
October 30th, 2012
8:12 pm
Poor and middle class white Georgians tend to vote republican. The republicans have done absolutely nothing for the poor and middle class. Romney doesn’t even pretend to do anything for these voters. Since these voters won’t vote democrat, they really have no reason to vote.
Kris
October 30th, 2012
8:14 pm
I cannot wait for Ronmesia and his pet rhinnie (Moe) to flip flop on this after all it was
“”Romney is the one who said it was “immoral” of the federal government to provide disaster relief.””
Now for a quick story…..
“Knock Knock …at the Whitehouse back door… Mr. President OBAMA this is Paul and Smitty we are here for our handout to fix our hurricane damaged state…”
Don’t worry we will flip on this tomorrow and LIE bout it…
@ cc
Wonder how you dress a Big Bird? I’ll figure it out . . . (Yellow feathers looks good)
Mabel, where’s my dang shotgun shells? (shot guns make a mes and leave lots of lead shot…Not healthy).
OBAMA 2012
Snaps to RGB
October 30th, 2012
8:16 pm
RGB = Winning
(Snaps to you!)
White Female = fail
Signed,
Another white female that USES her gray matter
Alphare
October 30th, 2012
8:20 pm
Obama’s rescue money mostly goes to auto companies and big banks?
Who are those working in Michigan and Ohio’s auto companies? blacks?
Who are those working in the big banks? blacks?
The reason of Racists is ignorance, in case you don’t know.
cc
October 30th, 2012
8:22 pm
“As a white mid dleclass, educated, professional”
You may be white, and you may be professional but your post tends to bring your claim of “educated” into question.
Frankly, your sentence structure makes your post difficult to understand, apart from the obvious fact that you’re likely not voting Republican.
What a surprise . . .
AJC - Race-baiting much?
October 30th, 2012
8:25 pm
What’s the point in publishing this story this close to the election, AJC? Race-bate much, AJC? Shameless, transparent. Unbelievable. Can’t believe you people get paid to write this. Zero insightful, thought-provoking stories about how we can work together to meet the needs of Georgia and grow the economy – just the AJC bouncing to the right as fast as they !@#$ing can.
Buymadeinusjobs
October 30th, 2012
8:26 pm
Who made decision to put I- 95 exit between Woodbine exit and Dover Bluff Exit undeveloped area, little traffic. Does Rep. Kingston own property here, i do not know why money was spent there instead of aroun Atlanta or overcrowded areas/highways.
Scott
October 30th, 2012
8:27 pm
I care less about their skin color and more about their character.
Where's your Pulitzer now, AJC?
October 30th, 2012
8:32 pm
I’m curious AJC… where’s your Pulitizer Prize writing now? Aside from Mike Luckovich – you got nothing. Your move to the right may serve you financially (for the moment), but that “credibility” you like to print on the front page is earned – not printed.
Simple Vote
October 30th, 2012
8:32 pm
I love Obama/Biden their message states that American is about helping each other, lend a hand if need be, not like Rommey and Paul take what you can and forget the little man who was not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. My uncle told me republicans will starve you!!!!!!!!
hop
October 30th, 2012
8:37 pm
before you dems start counting your liberal votes,states like Texas,Florida are able to maintain a strong conservative view with asians,and spainish voters electing many republicans with strong majorities.
one example is gwinnett county that has been multible race population for some time,but it still run by republicans.
the conservative label can and does draw most intelligent people that know that the government does not have a clue how to create jobs and grow an economy.this transcends race because all groups want to take care of their family and have the freedom to make that choice for themselves
The dems will take a huge loss next week that will be reflective in georgia and most of the nation next tuesday.
Scott
October 30th, 2012
8:37 pm
“…I may be out of work and broke, but at least I can still get an abortion…”? Sounds kind of trite, methinks.
Alphare
October 30th, 2012
8:40 pm
Nathan Deal was voted “most corrupt” congressman, is he black? or blacks voted him to office?
Are those corrupt Gwinnett politicians blacks or dems?
Alphare
October 30th, 2012
8:42 pm
While male,
“Your comment is disgraceful and pitiful!”
yes, you know the best, don’t you? You sounded the most gracious in this planet, black or white.
Committed to freedom
October 30th, 2012
8:42 pm
They have figured out that freedom, liberty, small government and a restoration of everything that made america great is not going to come by playing the bankster’s rigged political game. An outright rejection of the system that is destroying america is truly the only peaceful way will will ever take our country back.
Kris
October 30th, 2012
8:44 pm
@ hop “one example is gwinnett county that has been multible race population for some time,but it still run by republicans.”
Yep and some of them are wearing stripped suits…(prison)….
Hope fully some more shady deals and the chipper will join them soon.
The GOP (slime bags keep your hands out of my privates) will take a huge loss next week that will be reflective in georgia and most of the nation next Tuesday.
OBAMA 2012
TYLER
October 30th, 2012
8:45 pm
America is a Republic not a Democracy…
cc
October 30th, 2012
8:48 pm
Kris (and anyone else critical of Romney on FEMA):
Try to put your sympathies and your emotions aside for one moment, and THINK with your head rather than your heart about what Romney said in this portion of his statement. After reading this particular portion of his statement, tell me how you disagree with what he said:
Romney replied: “We cannot – we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all.”
The U.S. is currently running a $1.4 trillion annual deficit, and already has an indebtedness exceeding $16 trillion. Do you want to continue to add more debt for your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to suffer, or do you want to try to bring the deficits under control and begin to pay down the national debt?
The following is most of the transcript with a source link at the end:
The topic under discussion was the role of the federal government, and which functions Washington keeps.
“FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we’re learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role,” Mr. King said. “How do you deal with something like that?”
Romney’s response: “Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better.
“Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut – we should ask ourselves the opposite question,” Romney continued. “What should we keep? We should take all of what we’re doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we’re doing that we don’t have to do? And those things we’ve got to stop doing, because we’re borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we’re taking in. We cannot …”
King interjected: “Including disaster relief, though?”
Romney replied: “We cannot – we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2012/1030/Did-Mitt-Romney-suggest-eliminating-FEMA
MysteryMoves
October 30th, 2012
8:49 pm
White folks are so obese that they’re unable to register to vote or vote. Eating is too important!
Truth Squad
October 30th, 2012
8:49 pm
Smart Republicans realize they need to change their ways. Sadly, they are kept in check by the more extreme elements of their party.
Georgia use to be a place that welcomed hard working people, that is what drew people to the state. Now folks want to leave because they believe those that don’t look like them just want to live off of others. What a sad and angry worldview that must be. Fortunately most people do not want to live with that much darkness in their hearts.
TYLER
October 30th, 2012
8:49 pm
Simople Vote…your comment about Romney/Ryan is ABSURD!!!! The only reason you believe that is because youve been brainwashed by genrational curses making you think that the rich white man is out to get you and control you, while you totally ignored the opportunity toi educate yourself on what, in fact, their message is…btw…have you ever been employed by a poor person…no??? Well, you never will because they cant provide obs…the 1%’s that are the angry rich (many times white male, many times not) are the ones that provides jobs…dont bite the hand that feeds you…and for Gods sake…start educating yourself and stop listening to the hatred talk.!!!!!
TYLER
October 30th, 2012
8:50 pm
sorry for the typos..typing too fast..
Buymadeinusjobs
October 30th, 2012
8:51 pm
I hope everyone registers and votes, but be careful voting for Republicans who want to be in your bedroom. wife’s doctor office.Check C-span for votes, bills, Ryan budget 2011, Rommey’s video 5/14/12, Rommey’s primary debates CNN archives no FEMA, private, why aren’t private handling Sandy mess? All the Republicans in Senate and House voted for Ryan Budget 2011 which cuts 17 billion from veterans, cuts food stamps, medicaid, changed medicare to voucher, cut tax for rich and Rommey said he would sign it. To find out what Republican Tea Party House, Senate and Rommey will bring you , check what house voted for on c-span.. The Supreme ?Court has been favoring corporations:: look at united citizen case which said corporations is person, said wealthy said they can give all the money they want to American Crossroads/Karl Rove, American Prosperity/Koch Bros, Reed, Freedomworks 600 more super pacs. 75% of super Pac money is being spent against democrats check their records yourself. Remember Walmart against workers Supreme court said they could not use class action, what worker can go against their employer by themselves?
cc
October 30th, 2012
8:51 pm
“America is a Republic not a Democracy…”
Anyone you must tell that is too ignorant to ever understand it!
Kris Jones
October 30th, 2012
8:53 pm
GEORGIA IS SOLID REPUBLICAN AND WE AIN’T GOING BACK DEMOCRAT….NEVER….EVER!!!!
Janet Honesty
October 30th, 2012
8:58 pm
Why is this NEWS?????
cc
October 30th, 2012
9:00 pm
Buymadeinusjobs:
“I hope everyone registers and votes”
I’ve been working hard on that very issue. So far, I have gotten twenty-six new voters registered, have shown them how to mark their ballots (from a sample in the newspaper) and am providing transportation for them to and from the polls. That doesn’t count the seventeen I got to request absentee ballots!. I’ve been working really hard! Aren’t you proud of me?
A.B. Normal
October 30th, 2012
9:01 pm
Wow! I never knew the voting machines could tell what color the voters are. Ya learn something new every day!
Kris
October 30th, 2012
9:03 pm
Thank You cc!
Don Abernethy
October 30th, 2012
9:07 pm
Diversity will be the downfall of the US.The majority of born again Christians are white and when the Christians are gone all hell will break loose in the US.
Dirty Dawg
October 30th, 2012
9:09 pm
The first post here said something about ‘why Georgia will be in play in the next ten years or so’…I’m a 68 year old white male that was born here and grew up here. I can recall, and it hasn’t been all that long ago, when Democrats ruled the roost…even after the Southern Strategy was initiated by an extremist Republican Party interested only in winning elections Nationally and didn’t give a damn what kind of decisive hatred they had to use to do it. They knew that bigotry still existed, in the South especially, and could be used to their benefit. The fact that whoever posted that ‘in play’ thing seems to think that Democrats are only people of color – minorities as it were – and what I believe you’re afraid of is that when these ‘minorities’ become ‘majorities’ they’ll treat the new, white, minority the same way that they’ve been treated’ all their lives. Sadly, perhaps you’re right. Those that have practiced bigotry all these years may well have screwed things up so badly that ‘they’ just might have a hard time getting over it, but the rest of us will try to help it along…but you must come to accept the fact that this country must derive its strength from the diversity of our population. So get over it folks, we’re all in this together whether you like it or not. And as for the rightwing Republicans, they’d better move back to the center cause the Country is moving that way regardless of what you want.
Dirty Dawg
October 30th, 2012
9:09 pm
The first post here said something about ‘why Georgia will be in play in the next ten years or so’…I’m a 68 year old white male that was born here and grew up here. I can recall, and it hasn’t been all that long ago, when Democrats ruled the roost…even after the Southern Strategy was initiated by an extremist Republican Party interested only in winning elections Nationally and didn’t give a damn what kind of decisive hatred they had to use to do it. They knew that bigotry still existed, in the South especially, and could be used to their benefit. The fact that whoever posted that ‘in play’ thing seems to think that Democrats are only people of color – minorities as it were – and what I believe you’re afraid of is that when these ‘minorities’ become ‘majorities’ they’ll treat the new, white, minority the same way that they’ve been treated’ all their lives. Sadly, perhaps you’re right. Those that have practiced bigotry all these years may well have screwed things up so badly that ‘they’ just might have a hard time getting over it, but the rest of us will try to help it along…but you must come to accept the fact that this country must derive its strength from the diversity of our population. So get over it folks, we’re all in this together whether you like it or not. And as for the rightwing Republicans, they’d better move back to the center cause the Country is moving that way regardless of what you want.
Old Snarky
October 30th, 2012
9:10 pm
To once a repub: what is your take on living in a socialist state? You sound like someone planning to vote with something other than your allotment of common sense. Why do you think it’s ok to kill little
Babies. You wouldn’t kill your 1 year pld would you? So, what is the difference. It is extremely selfish to vote for a candidate just because his party is all for destroying the unborn which allows you to be promiscuous and have a good time and just kill the results. Arent you just so glad your parents didn’t share your views before you were born?
Wally
October 30th, 2012
9:14 pm
Obama killed Bin Laden
And a US Ambassador
Gunluvr
October 30th, 2012
9:14 pm
Who cares? As long as the majority’s percentage stays over 51% during voting season in most of GA’s 159 counties Dems can vote until they’re blue in the face and they’ll never make a difference in a senate or presidential election. Winner takes all.
Never doubt that a small group of citizens can change the world
October 30th, 2012
9:18 pm
@TYLER
October 30th, 2012
8:49 pm
Simople Vote…your comment about Romney/Ryan is ABSURD!!!! The only reason you believe that is because youve been brainwashed by genrational curses making you think that the rich white man is out to get you and control you, while you totally ignored the opportunity toi educate yourself on what, in fact, their message is…btw…have you ever been employed by a poor person…no??? Well, you never will because they cant provide obs…the 1%’s that are the angry rich (many times white male, many times not) are the ones that provides jobs…dont bite the hand that feeds you…and for Gods sake…start educating yourself and stop listening to the hatred talk.!!!!!
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CONS YOU will cut off your nose to spite your face
MEANING:
To hurt yourself in an effort to punish someone else.
Disadvantage yourself in order to do harm to an adversary.
Yudont Nomey
October 30th, 2012
9:19 pm
If someone has to show you how to mark a ballot then perhaps you shouldn’t vote. This is the problem with democracy. Regardless of ethnicity, the majority of the human race is stupid. They should really spend their time watching Jersey Shore and leave the voting to people with half a clue. Speaking of Jersey Shore, has anyone seen Snookie?
Agree with RGB
October 30th, 2012
9:19 pm
As a white female, I’m throwing my “snaps” in for RGB’s response to White Female too. With the economy as it currently stands, it is mind blowing to me that anyone’s top priority is access to birth control and abortions (reproductive rights)… or ANY social issue for that matter. Quite frankly, I don’t really care what anyone else does with their body and their free time, and as such, I will not let those “issues” dictate my vote. I’m more concerned with the fact that my once incredibly successful employer (pre-2008) has had to downsize by two-thirds in the past four years (and is on the verge of shuttering its doors altogether) due to new regulations and the deteriorating state of the economy. I’m concerned for my college-educated friends that have been jobless for 6 months to a year + (I can’t even imagine how difficult the hunt must be for those without a degree). For those fortunate enough to be offered jobs, they are making significantly less while doing much more work. BUT, you can’t complain because you just have to be grateful to have a job. Get your priorities straight ladies – there is a giant problem to facing our country, and it is not social in nature. Neither candidate is going to make reproductive rights/access their priority, and neither should you.
Buymadeinusjobs
October 30th, 2012
9:22 pm
Why does Rommey say 2 trillion more for Defense to police the world if there is no American Taxpayer money for Americans to have during crisis or for rebuilding America. I am sick of paying for unpaid for wars and rebuilding other countries with middle class taxes. Rommey is talking sweet now to get votes about staying out of wars. Look at his advisors- Bush war mongers, Go see what he was saying when he was hanging around with his friend Netanhayu, Israel, what he said during primary debates, previous speeches. Do not believe what politicians say just before elections when they are after your vote. check what they did in past, how many good paying manufacturing jobs has Rommey/wealthy created in USA??? Action speaks louder than words. They took tax cuts Republicans gave them. That is why they are buying your vote for Republicans. What has Republicans done for you.??? 41% of Georgians fit under Rommey’s 47% he scorned in his video. see c-span 5/14/12. Do you know what entitlements are?? medicare, tricare, medicaid, food lunches, food stamps etc Are you ready to take care of grandma/disabled when she cannot get in nursing home because Ryan’s budget cut medicaid, white guys who are unemployed/low paid workers, how will you get healthcare for your kids, medicaid pays for that. Does any of your family receive food stamps, can you afford to feed them?
Georgia , The "New Mississippi"
October 30th, 2012
9:28 pm
I actually like R-money but he scares me with his lack of integrity ( lies ) . He should have stuck to his true beliefs ( whatever they are ) . The GOP base was going to vote for whoever the nominee was anyway so there was no need to try and cater to them just because they are loud and obnoxious . He was an Repub Governor in a Dem state and by all accounts is a very capable man that did an excellent job of taking care of his states business.. I trust Obama’s integrity a lot more then R-money. I think R-money would get more things done but I don’t know what he really would try and do because he has changed his positions so often depending his audience.
Daniel
October 30th, 2012
9:28 pm
J Throckmorton Malcontent is George Clinton and Parliament Fan!!! It’s just good to see the entire State growing in Diversity.
td
October 30th, 2012
9:33 pm
All you libs promising to leave out beautiful conservative state. I hope you are not teasing us because we really do want you and your low test scoring children out of our great state. The sooner the better.
Never doubt that a small group of citizens can change the world
October 30th, 2012
9:34 pm
@Wally
October 30th, 2012
9:14 pm
Obama killed Bin Laden
And a US Ambassador
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You are a LIAR.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make
an effort to deserve the name.
stan
October 30th, 2012
9:43 pm
Wow, less than 60%…..maybe Republicans will actually grow a brain and stop pushing these laws meant to target people who have broan skin and a last name ending in a Z or Vowel
Swoopin
October 30th, 2012
9:45 pm
Love how this was moved from the list of links earlier today to the featured story on the home page.
AJC depends on stirring the racial pot these days. Must be part of their new survival strategy.
Never doubt that a small group of citizens can change the world
October 30th, 2012
9:46 pm
@Georgia , The “New Mississippi”
October 30th, 2012
9:28 pm
I actually like R-money but he scares me with his lack of integrity ( lies ) .
=============================================
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has
a chance to put its pants on.
The world is watching.
Image what they are saying about Mitt Romney who is a
pathological liar.
“Can this man be trusted?”
What a way to start a presidency being thought of as a liar.
Honesty doesn’t always pay, but dishonesty always costs.
Kris
October 30th, 2012
9:46 pm
@ Gunluvr Dems (democrats) can vote until they’re blue in the face and they’ll never make a difference in a senate or presidential election.
And how many times did the GOP slime vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act….
33 times where they could have voted to do something for the American people…
Thats about 33 times too Many.
OBAMA 2012
Sick & Tired Of Being Sick & Tired
October 30th, 2012
9:48 pm
@RGB……It is real obvious that you get your facts from Fox News……just saying!!!!!
The same folks who want to control women’s rights and claim to be pro-life are the same ones that will yell the loudest when their taxes are increased to provide for those same children…..you can’t have it both ways!!!!…..just saying!!!!!
Don’t buy into the hype and scare tactics folks!!!! I see the whole premise of this article to be nothing other than a scare tactic too!!!!!
Never doubt that a small group of citizens can change the world
October 30th, 2012
9:54 pm
@td
October 30th, 2012
9:33 pm
All you libs promising to leave out beautiful conservative state. I hope you are not teasing us because we really do want you and your low test scoring children out of our great state. The sooner the better.
======================================
The typical CON is a LOW INFORMATION VOTER.
Low information voters, also known as LIVs or “misinformation voters”,
are people who may vote, but who are generally poorly informed
about politics.
Low information voters feel insecure about their opinions
and are easily intimidated by Libs.
Some low-information voters think the GOP nominee is named ‘McRomney’
TRANSLATION:
UNEDUCATED
claytondawg
October 30th, 2012
9:56 pm
The presidential race is not so much a concern to me as both our House and Senate. These are the REAL IDIOTS of government for whom we consistently vote in office. This country’s electorate has “dumbed-down” itself; I’m not ashamed to admit that I am one who has been a sheep to a Congress that has its own agenda and greed in fleecing Americans. The electorate has the ability to change and strengthen this country, and it’s called Term Limits for elected officials. Congress will not have any part of term limits, so it’s up to a smarter electorate to create it.
Biff Clinton
October 30th, 2012
10:02 pm
I am white and left Atlanta in 2007. Why? Racist Blacks and filth and pollution. I moved to an area with white people. Atlanta is the next Detroit. A black infested urban jungle that will decay. Anything blacks touch eventually turns to garbage. Good riddance you can have the once great Southern City it is ruined by blacks, Yankees and political correctness.
Dr Dave
October 30th, 2012
10:07 pm
This is so sad folks…I read in the paper the other day that prejudice has increased in the last 4 yrs..We,re heading for something real bad…This doesnt look good…What are we leaving our kids?
stinky sullivan
October 30th, 2012
10:12 pm
Please. The term white is offensive. Can you please call me a Northern European American? Thank you.
JANICE
October 30th, 2012
10:14 pm
I wish people would not the race issue———-and I mean ALL. I wish there was not a check list for any race/nationality—————————it should not matter who is voting, taking a test etc. We are people and that should be enough!!
GaBlue
October 30th, 2012
10:16 pm
What a pathetic defense some of these alleged women offer:
“My right to make decisions about my own body, and my ability to access necessary health care for my particular set of organs, are simply NOT important… because… because… there aren’t enough good jobs in this economy?” Seriously?
Please do NOT send me your resume!
td
October 30th, 2012
10:21 pm
Never doubt that a small group of citizens can change the world
October 30th, 2012
9:54 pm
@td
The typical CON is a LOW INFORMATION VOTER.
Low information voters, also known as LIVs or “misinformation voters”,
are people who may vote, but who are generally poorly informed
about politics.
Low information voters feel insecure about their opinions
and are easily intimidated by Libs.
Some low-information voters think the GOP nominee is named ‘McRomney’
TRANSLATION:
UNEDUCATED
Let me see if I have this straight. The lowest preforming schools in the state are in Democratic controlled voting district. The children of Democrats score the lowest on the CRCT, GHSGT and the SAT and you are trying to tell all the readers that it is the Republican voters in this state that are uneducated and uninformed.
Tell us some more of your so called truths.
Hiram
October 30th, 2012
10:21 pm
@claytondog
“Congress will not have any part of term limits, so it’s up to a smarter electorate to create it.”
Congress is untouchable until Citizens United is overturned, and Romeny will appoint more insane right wing justices to the Court. The Supreme Court is the most important factor of the election. Electing Romney will insure our government’s conversion to a plutocracy.
Kris
October 30th, 2012
10:22 pm
Janice, I’m with you race statistics and polls…who cares who does what! If you do not have enough statistics, race and polls to prove what you want then you do not have enough race,statistics and polls….what a crock of Malarkey
Mary Elizabeth
October 30th, 2012
10:24 pm
Everyone in Georgia could benefit from seeing the movie version of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific,” which was on Broadway 60 years ago. Rent it on Netflick or find it where you can. It is one of America’s great musicals. It will open hearts and minds as to the waste of racial prejudice in lives. Hammerstein, especially, had an egalitarian vision for our world, which he made come alive through his lyrics, and Rogers (whom I talked with as an 18 year old outside of a Broadway theatre in the summer of 1961) created beautiful, lasting music.
Changing minds and souls in such a positive, entertaining way were the invaluable gifts of these two American icons of musical theatre to our nation and to the world.
Thogwummpy
October 30th, 2012
10:27 pm
Hmmmm….so to read these posts, we’re to believe that abortion is the most important issue for women (which is odd…as I doubt the majority of women are hoping they’ll get abortions in the next four years); or FREE birth control products. Eh…not buying it. Career women want politicians who are not anti-success and openly hostile to the business community [let alone, they wonder about a President who said he considers the private sector to be the "enemy"]. And mothers have concerns about the kind of debt choked nation we’ve become, knowing their children will be slapped with the consequences of the reckless entitlement culture. I dunno, I’m not a woman. Maybe hatred of babies—and the need to kill ‘em (I’m being facetious, for liberals frame their arguments in fabricated “hate” context…so I’m seeing how they like having it tossed in their face….FYI, I’m actually a pro-choice Libertarian conservative; there’s legions of us) is the most important thing on the female mind. But if women want a country where they and their families can flourish and prosper—-then I’m guessing they have a rightful fear of the Party which is growing government into a totalitarian state. LIKEWISE, it’s the pinacle of hypocrisy for Leftards to complain about someone else making decisions about a woman’s body; while endorsing Obamacare…which puts the Federal government in that very role! The priority in this election…ultimately isn’t about abortion. It’s about whether or not Americans will have liberty in our future; or be controlled by an authoritarian Progressive State.
woodrow
October 30th, 2012
10:27 pm
Maybe the white people don’t have anybody to vote for. That’s how I feel. None of the candidates seem to reflect what I would like to see in the government. We have two extremes.
double
October 30th, 2012
10:31 pm
Old people bad about repeating.
MittWho
October 30th, 2012
10:38 pm
Will the REAL Mitt Romney please stand up? This man has changed his views a thousand times. How can anyone vote for him? Who or what are you exactly voting for? Cut FEMA but give more to the military thats not in need. Thank you President Obama for bringing me home from a war that me or my comrades supported! If you want to support us troops, vote Obama Biden!
Hagatha
October 30th, 2012
10:40 pm
I”M MOVING!
Hiram
October 30th, 2012
10:44 pm
thogwhopee,
Were you in td/cc’s “Rush Limbaugh Listening Club” at Kennesaw Jr. College, or have you become sophisticated enough to recite Rush’s insightful political commentary all by yourself?
Top School
October 30th, 2012
10:45 pm
There’s just not enough room in the GEORGIA basement for all those BROWN BABIES.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TopSchoolAtlanta?v=n9mBrrgQOpU&lr=1
td
October 30th, 2012
10:48 pm
Hiram
October 30th, 2012
10:21 pm
” Electing Romney will insure our government’s conversion to a plutocracy.”
Are you trying to tell us the wealthy are not running this country now?
Name us one civilization in the history of the world where the poor controlled the politics of the country?
td
October 30th, 2012
10:49 pm
Hagatha
October 30th, 2012
10:40 pm
I”M MOVING!
Can you please hurry up and get the heck out.
JBarrett
October 30th, 2012
10:54 pm
@OnceARepub and @WorriedRepublican, let other paint you as a closeted democrat but you and I know the truth. I, too, have never voted anything but Republican but am unable to do so this election for the same reasons you stated. As such, I’ve been just about shunned by my family who think that its enough just to be Republican, platform be damned. For a Party who believes in less government intrusion in our lives, I can’t see the justification to be upset about the imposition of the cost of insurance for health care (I’m forced to have car insurance as well) than they are about the government’s intrusion into my bedroom and doctors office. The staunchly right social platform has lost my vote.
jim
October 30th, 2012
10:54 pm
this article is an absurd waste. thank goodness that AJC.com is free.This is race baiting and the writer should find relevant topics.
Sad
October 30th, 2012
10:55 pm
Sad…so incredibly sad. I’ve watched my beloved Gwinnett head downhill for the past decade. It saddens me so much.
double
October 30th, 2012
10:55 pm
Romney has a point about leaving debt for our children to pay.If Bush had thought that way,then we would not have the debts we now have.Bill Clinton and Newt worked together.I don’t believe Newt shed a tear during those 4 years.(Not in public at least.)
Kujohn
October 30th, 2012
11:01 pm
To Larry the redneck Who thinks gay people are perverts
But doesn’t think twice about humping his daughter
that’s normal for him an his godly southern values
His motto
Incest is kept in the family
LydiasDad
October 30th, 2012
11:02 pm
Love these idiots who are posting as “former Republicans who’ve seen the light” just so they can bash Romney. It’s so pathetically transparent.
AmVet
October 30th, 2012
11:07 pm
Very bad news for the Lily White GOP…
Great news for Georgia…
Jim in ATL
October 30th, 2012
11:41 pm
Dirty Dog – you are wrong, we are not “all in this together”. It is clear that we are now the Divided States of America and it will only get worse after next Tuesday. Romney was right in that we have whole segments of the population that are leaching off of government because they don’t have the brains or skills to do well enough on their own. Your idea of “being in this together” is that people like me who work hard and do well give up a large portion of our earnings to others who don’t. Well let me tell you something, there are a whole lot of us out there who don’t buy in to your liberal babble and race baiting rhetoric. We see what is happening to the country and recoil from it. Our priority is ourselves and our families not your welfare state.
Atlanta...the next Detroit
October 30th, 2012
11:42 pm
It’s coming. I am out of here as soon as I can.
Atlanta...the next Detroit
October 30th, 2012
11:44 pm
Compare Hiroshima 50 years after the bomb and Detroit. Ask yourself why. We all know why.
Atlanta...the next Detroit
October 30th, 2012
11:48 pm
Hey Jim,
If this house ain’t divided, I don’t know what is. I have said it for a long time now.
Cherokee
October 31st, 2012
12:04 am
Biff Clinton – trust me, you aren’t missed.
The Hammer
October 31st, 2012
12:18 am
Has anyone slowed down to think that the difference could simply be [White] people who refuse to divulge their race? From the article:
“The difference comes from the growing pool of voters who decline to identify themselves by race, or describe themselves as something other than white, black, Asian-Pacific, Hispanic-Latino, or Native American. That group grew from 3.6 percent in 2008 to 8 percent today.”
The percent of Black voters remained the same (30%) and Hispanic voters increased from 1.4% to 1.7%. So, it only stands to reason that some large percent of White voters simply checked “other” or nothing at all when they filled out their voter regisration cards.
Can't Believe It
October 31st, 2012
12:24 am
Was this article written to create turmoil prior to the election? Otherwise what was the purpose???
tyrone
October 31st, 2012
12:27 am
Where the white women at?
Dirty Dawg
October 31st, 2012
12:31 am
Jim…as for people leaching off government, we all at one time or another rely on one another – including government – you’re probably right that there are plenty like you that for whatever reason don’t see it and, I guess, don’t want it. What’re you gonna do? Head for the hills and resort to a survivor mode? Fortunately there are way more that don’t agree with you and will keep working to make it work. Galbraith once said that ‘conservatism’ is merely the search for a better excuse for selfishness…apparently you’ve found it, or simply don’t need an excuse. Tell you what, just stop paying your taxes – taxes that are at an all-time low (certainly in your lifetime) as a percentage of income, by the way – maybe you’ll get away with it for a while even. See if that makes you happy, cause you come across right now as one miserable human being.
Huckaberry Hound
October 31st, 2012
12:31 am
Racial hatred from all sides is getting worse because of Obama and his class warfare rhetoric. This is what Marxist use to pit brother against brother, the sign of a devil. Poor people get jobs from rich people and rich people need poor people for their economic investment but Marxism looks only at classes not the individual. Both democratic and republican parties will cause the next US civil war and its will be bloody, brother against brother over class identity.
Hiram
October 31st, 2012
12:42 am
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.”
strom
October 31st, 2012
1:00 am
Enter your comments here
Gunluvr
October 31st, 2012
3:21 am
@Kris; the Repubs in Congress voted and kept getting the same results. The only time when something is assured to pass without any backtalk is when the NRA wants it to happen. Now that’s real power and political authority.
MASR
October 31st, 2012
4:49 am
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
sleestak63
October 31st, 2012
5:27 am
yes! Clayton county is great example of what is in store for a future DemocRAT Controlled state of GA.
Attack Dog
October 31st, 2012
5:34 am
Chest thumping Dixiecrats forget that McCain-Palin got 52.4% of the vote in 2008. Now, they have a worthless candidate, and have alienated more women, minorities, and folks under 40 than ever before.
Former Dummycrat
October 31st, 2012
5:34 am
I was a memeber of the Dumbocrat party, but I realized a party who promotes NOT working, NO personal responsibility, get your living from others work, was an abomination and destroyed the human spirit. If you are a woman and your priority is making sure you can kill your baby in your womb, you are sick and less than human. Dummycrats love killing babies. How sick is that? Who will pay the bills when the White people leave? Even blacks don’t want to live with blacks.
disgusted
October 31st, 2012
5:36 am
Who gives a @#%*…
You still act as if being White is some elite status and the whole World revolves around you. You are a minority on the Planet and regarded in most places around the Globe as not to be trusted, dishonest, heinous, etc….
Get a real prospective people!!!!!
Former Dummycrat
October 31st, 2012
5:39 am
Dekalb county, Clayton county, Detroit, Chicago, NY, entire state of California, all places controlled by Dumbocrats and all bankrupt govt’s with worthless populations that look to conservative, White majority states and counties to bail their worthless butts outs. Blacks are actually o.k., its “black values and culture” that is destroying the country.
Attack Dog
October 31st, 2012
5:39 am
Liberals, want to see how crafty Georgia Dixiecrats are? Compare the percentage of popular vote by party on November 6th to the percentage of U.S. House representatives.
DHD
October 31st, 2012
5:41 am
People are tired of being labeled. That is why this number means NOTHING. Just stop it.
Former Dummycrat
October 31st, 2012
5:43 am
Minority on the planet, yet the best on the planet. When will Blacks be equal? When they consider themselves equal instead of constantly being a victim. Get some “white values” and live it for a while and you will realize you can rise above all this victimhood adn be a productive citizen But only you can do it, not the gov’t. Your Dummycrat masters need you to believe you are inferior, and you believe them!
1SG B
October 31st, 2012
6:05 am
Why does it matters? When will this country STOP basing everything by the color of ones skin. Everyone just vote for whoever you choose and I hope you are voting for the right one by you and your family needs and situations and not based on skin color. Wow, only in the United States of America.
disgusted
October 31st, 2012
6:06 am
To Former Dummycrat…..You are obviously a card carrying member of Cracker Nation.
You think Blacks want to be equal…you are sorely mistaken. You are a very scary race of people…lets make a little list:
You screw your daughters ( on a reg basis I’m told)
You aren’t happy unless you are starting a war somewhere on the Planet ( they have it, we want it, let’s invent a reason to go to war and take it)
You have actually enslaved other human beings throughout history (and you are damn proud of it! That one is major scary
You steal national elections….Remember Bush/Gore/hanging chads?
Your idea of a good time is sitting in a tree stand aiming to kill something..anything
Your idea of a great time was hanging your enslaved humans in trees…who the #@& are you people?
The list goes on and on and on
Current white world population : 1.376
Current black world population: 1.7
And in case you have never heard this, please let me enlighten you….A Black person’s greatest nightmare would be to have been born white..honest to God…That is a scary thought…gives me chills
Former Dummycrat
October 31st, 2012
6:22 am
You got one thing right- sitting in a tree stand hunting deer is a big activity in the Fall. You are afraid of being White? Why, because then you will be expected to produce and support the unworking of this state and country. Me, I do not have nightmares of being born black. I wish I was black, as I would stand out, with a strong work ethic and refusing to be a victim, I would be a real standout among my peers. As is, I am just one of many had working crackers who make this countrry work adn pay all you liberal pukes bills. You are welcome.
Former Dummycrat
October 31st, 2012
6:27 am
How the heck did a mentally and physically superior race (blacks) end up below the mentally and physically inferior race (whites)? Heck of a trick. Those damn whites are so inferior they done did trick us.
Buymadeinusjobs
October 31st, 2012
6:34 am
Great topic, it got us taking part in a dicussion we need to have. We need to research what our Senators and house members in Washington have really been doing. Check on bills Broun, Kingston, Atkins, Bachman, Ryan budget 2011 where he cut 17 billion from veterans programs, medicare to voucher, cut medicaid etc., cut taxes for wealthy. All Republicans in Senate and House voted for Ryan budget 2011 and Rommey said he would sign it. check c-span for yourself for bills, hearings, votes. One of last about 260 Senator Mcconnel filibusters , which all most all republican senators including Saxby and Isakon voted to block was jobs bill for veterans, they also blocked bill to tax tax breaks from wealthy/corporations who hire overseas and give break to companies who hire here.. Rommey/wealthy are ones who have their money invested overseas and in Tax Havens like Cayman Islands, they take tax cuts Republicans give them and do not create jobs in USA. You can cut all taxes/regulation but get sworn affadavits they will hire in USA. Any person who is not stupid knows that Americans can not work for a $1.00 an hour, no heath insurance, air like China;;Republicans are already bitching about 26% low earners who are in Rommey’s 47% moochers[c-span-video 5/14/12] who have to get entitlements like foodstamps, healthcare etc from government for their families to survive. If you only have Republican to vote for, write in Mayor, veteran, Ron Paul, someone but do not mark Republican unless you like what they are doing to you if you are not a millionaire.
We also need to check out state and local officials, votes on this site, you can also google them by name, see what they have been doing..
Georgia Politics, Campaigns and Elections – Georgia Politics, Campaigns & Elections for October 31, 2012 – Georgia Pundit
October 31st, 2012
7:03 am
[...] Daylight saving time ends Sunday, November 4th at 2:00 a.m., when clocks are set back one hour. We were about to change all the batteries in our smoke and CO2 detectors because somewhere in the house, one of the blamed things is chirping just often enough to drive me insane while I work from home, but not often enough to figure out which one it is. Commissioner Hudgens is a great public servant for Georgia and we don’t get to say that often enough here because he seems to keep a pretty low profile in the media. Not what we’ve come to expect from that office. Jim Galloway brings us the news that white voters now constitute less than 60% of all registered voters in Georgia for the first time. [...]
Georgia
October 31st, 2012
7:48 am
Daylight Savings Time in an Election Year? The wording is important, so, “I think the clocks are supposed to “not Fall Forward” unless you failed to spring forward which means you’ve been an hour behind for six months, then dont fall backwards but do nothing and everything will be perfect.”
Civil War 2....it's coming
October 31st, 2012
8:00 am
It has to. There is a tipping point when we say enough.
Actually, long before, I believe the rogue states(look it up) decide to ban together to hit us. No way we can completely defend ourselves on many fronts. I would just as soon give it to Iran as most of the people in Clayton. Controlled dictatorship, or the freaking zoo that is Clayton. Even Iran would not elect a sheriff with 37 felonies (ok, a few less now) to serve again. How insane.
Steve Perkins (De Kalb Democrat)
October 31st, 2012
8:07 am
People seem to forget that white does not equal Republican.and that Registration is not the same as Turnout. 35% of Whites are voting Democratic. The 65% of the “WHITE Vote” that is lock step Republicans support in this state ends,
You folks have pushed so far to the right on issues like Reproductive rights and immigration and education that no one else wants to join you. You are wrong on the issues and you are cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The GOP is not growing in this state at all. You have no ability to expend your base. You think you are because you folks are so loud and shrill but the GOP bubble you are living in will most assuredly burst and that is going to happen far sooner than you think. So you just keep on thinking that you are going to continue to rule this state, those of us who know how too do math know what is coming.
honested
October 31st, 2012
8:13 am
ALEC will have to modify their long term voter suppression plan.
Or import a huge new number of hard headed, backward looking, conserrrrrrvative white people.
native atlantan
October 31st, 2012
8:22 am
How many black folks vote for Obama solely because he is black ?
honested
October 31st, 2012
8:31 am
na,
Who cares?
As long as they vote for him knowing he is more competent and less compromised than his opponent.
Hiram
October 31st, 2012
8:32 am
@ Dummy
What you see in all of the places you referenced, Detroit, Clayton Cnty, etc., is where the Mittens of the world want you to reside, and you will – it’s his model for utopia Only the chosen ones, like Mitten, and the Koch brothers et al. are worthy to share the wealth. Dummies, like yourself, will be shown the door – you will be joining the masses, for whom you hold so much disdain, in the ghettos. The Mittens will be coming by to take your guns before it’s over with – dummies with guns will pose a threat to the chosen ones.
Bubba from Newnan
October 31st, 2012
8:56 am
Newnan Football is a perfect example of the good ole boys running things into the ground. 90% black football team.Most all the coaches white. Whats wrong with this picture. Change is coming to athletics also. We will have a black or hispanic coach soon. Change is a beast.
tiredofIT
October 31st, 2012
9:04 am
Larry: Think I’ll vote for the businessman with good morals, values, standards and proven success managing money…his and ours!
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Which of those does constant lying fit into?
Whirled Peas
October 31st, 2012
9:04 am
If you are on welfare, get food stamps or free school lunches, you should not be allowed to vote. You will be voting for whomever picks your neighbor’s pocket to provide you with “free” stuff. It is how we got into this $17 trillion debt anyhow.
tiredofIT
October 31st, 2012
9:06 am
native atlantan
October 31st, 2012
8:22 am
How many black folks vote for Obama solely because he is black ?
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About the same number that vote for Willard because he is white.
Porkchopicus of Borg
October 31st, 2012
9:31 am
cc — “She didn’t need your advice.”
Nor did she need RGB’s.
“Unfortunately, she is either “programmed” dimocrat or has fallen victim to the propaganda of the leftist news media and folks like you.”
Either that, or she thinks for herself; something you’re clearly not doing.
Vote for Obama cause he's black
October 31st, 2012
9:32 am
Just take a look around at the city of Atlanta,Decatur.
The whites that have moved into black neighborhoods have built up those area,attracted major retail chains,new shopping centers,great restaurants,improved green space.
Decatur property values have increased,property taxes have been driven up,schools are great,quality of life has increased ten fold.
Where there are no whites,kudzu,vines are growing everywhere,houses are boarded up,total confusion on who own most all of the vacant properties,crime is everywhere,no pride at all,complete deterioration.
White sububs like Kennesaw which were all white are filling up with blacks that don’t want to live with other blacks and watch their homes diminish in value,don’t want their kids in terrible schools.
The proof is in the pudding.
It’s just better when it’s white,period,the end.
Porkchopicus of Borg
October 31st, 2012
9:41 am
F. Dummycrat — “I was a memeber of the Dumbocrat party, but I realized a party who promotes NOT working, NO personal responsibility, get your living from others work, was an abomination and destroyed the human spirit.”
You are a liar. And lies make Baby Jesus cry.
AmVet
October 31st, 2012
9:52 am
Vote for Obama cause he’s black and you other sons of Klansmen,
Too long! Keep it short.
Segregation yesterday! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!!
deegee
October 31st, 2012
10:19 am
If you can read anything into this it is that African Americans that never registered before are now registering to vote. A lot of this is backlash over the Voter ID laws and the noise over voter fraud. There are a few nationally broadcasted radio shows with very well respected hosts that are driving national voter registration campaigns. Judging from the high participation of African Americans in early voting I would say that their work is paying off. This is a good thing for Georgia and the US.
Church of the painful Truth
October 31st, 2012
10:33 am
People we are in serious trouble after reading the above comments!Black,White,Latino,Repub or Demo is does not matter in the condition our country is in.If we do not put aside our views on race or party we will sink together.Other countries would love to have what we have in America.Keep on fighting and not pulling together will cause this country to fall in the next 20 to 30 years.We better get our act together or your childern and grandchildern will not live in the same country as it is today.Yes we have our problems,but we still have the best country in the world.Stop and ask this question.Would you like for your childern to live in China,Russia,Middle East? Keep on with these views about race or party and we will be run by one of the above. We owe China 7 trillion dollars so they are in the lead to take over. Oh and by the way,you want not be able to blog or complain about the conditions of our country if it happens.They(China,Russia,Countries in the Middle East) do not care what you think.You will be told what to say or think.God bless the USA because we do need his help now.
Birddog13
October 31st, 2012
10:34 am
Fernando. I did not know the Klan has decided to hide in brown sheets now instead of white.
TheLazyComic
October 31st, 2012
10:38 am
Maybe they just figure… what’s the point in going through the pomp and circumstance of voting in the Untied States? In my heart… I know the elections are fixed and/or rigged.
Ann
October 31st, 2012
10:46 am
We are NOT a democracy!!! We are a Democratic Republic. If we were a democracy, the popular vote would determine the election results instead of the electoral colleges. However, we are close to a democracy, not what the founders intended. Our stupid push toward democracy is what is part of what is going to destroy this country. As soon as the receivers of government benefits outnumber the working people in this country. (Not including those receiving social security retirees,.) and realize they can vote themselves more, it is time for productive people to throw in the towel or take the country back – another revolution, even armed, maybe. No true democracy has ever survived this economic reality. PERSONAL compassion is what we need to have. Honestly, government causes a drop in personal charity contributions.
VoteThat Counts
October 31st, 2012
10:56 am
Can anyone out there explain to me why we can’t vote on-line?
If we can:
1. Date
2. File Taxes
3. Bank
4. Shop
5. Make Car, Airline, Hotel and travel reservations
6. Game
7. Communicate with each other
ON-LINE
WHY IN THE HELL CAN’T WE WE VOTE ON-LINE………….? (YOU DON’T NEED A PHOTO IDEA TO FILE TAXES OR BANK – SO PLEASE DON’T USE THAT AS A REASON….
tiredofIT
October 31st, 2012
11:37 am
Can anyone out there explain to me why we can’t vote on-line?
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I don’t believe there are any technical reasons, would require some type of national ID.
zeke
October 31st, 2012
11:37 am
Forward is code language for progressives and communists! Look it up!
I can be thankful of one thing, by the time that Caucasians are less than 50%-1, I will have been dead for a couple of hundred years! Nothing worse could happen to the USA! Turn it into just another scum third world pit! One positive is that of all the minorities, Asians and Cubans are conservative and contribute!!
VoteThat Counts
October 31st, 2012
11:41 am
We can also:
1. Operate a business
2. Participate in various surveys
3. Subscribe to magazines
4. Trade
5. Sell
6. File a Complaint
7. Report a Crime
8. Talk to a Lawyer, Doctor, Police Officer etc.
9. Track a package
10. Just about anything you can imagine.
ON-LINE – but we can’t VOTE ON-LINE
This is CRAZY…
VoteThat Counts
October 31st, 2012
11:44 am
@tiredofIT
You don’t need a national ID to BANK or File your taxes ON-LINE –why would you need one to place a vote?
sang dixie remixed with Jezzy's 'My President'
October 31st, 2012
11:53 am
I think people who are known,out in the open racists shouldn’t be allowed to vote.For the sake of themselves,as well as all man-kind.
VoteThat Counts
October 31st, 2012
11:57 am
Ok one last point on this….
If we can register and track sex offenders (with photo IDs) ON-LINE; then why can’t we register voters (with their Photo IDs) and allow them to go to a website and cast their votes.
Wow a convicted felon has more rights (consideration) than the law abiding citizen.
AGAIN I ASK MY FELLOW READERS (UH AMERICANS) WHY IN THE WORLD CAN’T WE VOTE ON-LINE????????????????????????
Big Hat
October 31st, 2012
12:02 pm
Buy stock in coat hanger factories now, before the prices go up after Romney / Ryan are elected.
VoteThat Counts
October 31st, 2012
12:04 pm
@Big Hat
I asked you a question….do you have an answer for me?
ROTFLMFAO
October 31st, 2012
12:47 pm
As a native of Arkansas, I find the words, “be among the Arkansas-Mississippi “also-rans.”” offensive. Also, as one of Georgia’s 60% white male registered voters, I think that the white family is far from being “long gone.” As long as breath fills our lungs, we white male voters will continue to dominate politics in Georgia. Get over it losers.
ROTFLMFAO
October 31st, 2012
12:51 pm
VoteThatCounts — We can’t vote online because there is certainty that Obama’s “chicago-style” Democrats will be registering long-dead Democrats and using on-line voting to steal elections from the Republicans.
Bill Campbell
October 31st, 2012
1:08 pm
Democrats are only looking for Republicans to take care of their lazy butts!
Attack Dog
October 31st, 2012
1:22 pm
Obama “Chicago Style” Democrats may get long-dead Democrats registered, but Dixiecrats have a proven track record of finding ways for their departed to actually vot absentee and at the polls, so online would be a snap.
Rhett Butler
October 31st, 2012
1:37 pm
This explains why Phil Kent is in such a panic.
Jason
October 31st, 2012
2:00 pm
Where are you rednecks going. You can’t go north because you will not stand a chance and you can’t even go west or southwest, the typical Georgia redneck mentality will not even fit into that of Dallas, or Houston or any other real major city.
native atlantan
October 31st, 2012
2:46 pm
Time to repaint all the walls white in the White House.,
Richard Bagge
October 31st, 2012
3:54 pm
Count me as another Republican who will not be voting for Romney. Except I don’t count, according to commenters here – I must assuredly be a Dem in disguise!!
I will be voting for the Libertarian candidate, Gary Johnson, tomorrow. I would have been happy to have voted for Ron Paul, for Rick Perry, for Herman Cain, for Newt Gingrich, but not Romney. Nor Santorum, who, thank God, did not win the nomination. Our party nominated the wrong man, and we’re going to lose the White House because Romney is not in any way qualified to be president.
That's the way it is
October 31st, 2012
4:06 pm
Why is facts always racist?