Georgia: Ticket-Splitting On Our Mind (with Molly Ball)
The Focus Group Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Georgia is a closely divided state, but we're likely to see a lot of ticket splitters there this year - specifically a lot of people voting for arch-conservative Gov. Brian Kemp and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. Partly because they think Kemp is doing a good job, and partly because Warnock's opponent, Herschel Walker, is a total mess. TIME Magazine national political correspondent Molly Ball joins Sarah to discuss her reporting out of Georgia and listen to a group of Georgia swing voters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Focus Group podcast. I'm Sarah Longwell publisher of the |
| 0:14.4 | bulwark and this week we are talking about Georgia the state most likely to |
| 0:20.2 | determine which party controls the Senate, which makes the impact of recent |
| 0:24.5 | revelations that Herschel Walker allegedly paid for an abortion all the more high |
| 0:29.0 | stakes and his attempts to unseat Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock. |
| 0:33.6 | We're going to hear swing voters discuss how Walker's controversial past is influencing |
| 0:38.1 | their thinking about this race. |
| 0:40.2 | We're also going to explore the lost art of ticket splitting. |
| 0:43.7 | We've seen some of this in Arizona, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, |
| 0:47.6 | but Georgia may be ground zero for the 2022 ticket splitter. |
| 0:52.0 | Republican Governor Brian Kemp is probably on track to beat Democrat Stacey Abrams again. |
| 0:58.0 | He's leading by 5.5 points in the latest 538 average, which is practically a landslide in narrowly divided Georgia these days. |
| 1:06.6 | There was actually a poll out this week from the University of Georgia that has Kemp leading by 10 points. |
| 1:13.6 | That seems too high to me, but point is he's up. |
| 1:17.0 | My guest today is Molly Ball, |
| 1:19.0 | National Political Correspondent for Time magazine. |
| 1:21.8 | She had a great piece recently for the magazine titled |
| 1:24.2 | Brian Kemp's Revenge. So who is Kemp getting revenge on? All of his |
| 1:30.6 | haters and isn't that what we all would like? |
| 1:33.6 | That's the dream. |
| 1:34.8 | That's the dream. |
| 1:35.8 | Well, but specifically former President Trump who thought he was going to get his |
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