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Georgia is not turning blue anytime soon

By Jay Caruso

Published June 26, 2017 9:16pm ET

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When Bill Clinton won the state of Georgia 25 years ago, it began a conversation that continues today, wrestling with the question of whether or not the state will go blue as we’ve seen with Virginia. Virginia, once a steady state for Republicans went to Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 as well as for Hillary Clinton in 2016. The state has two Democratic senators (Mark Warner and Tim Kaine), and the governor is a Democrat (Terry McAuliffe).

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