When she laid out her vision, this idea that we were going to add a million people to the

voter rolls, I tell people I had 33 reasons why this would never work.

She had like 34 reasons why it absolutely would work and she was right as usual.

This is Ense Ufat, CEO of the New Georgia Project, talking about a chance encounter in 2014.

A mutual friend said, are you coming home for the holidays? And I was like, yes of course.

She said I would love for you to meet this state rep. Her name is Stacey Abrams, she's

doing some incredible things and I think you guys need to connect.

And I was such an asshole. I'm really coming home to hang with my family. I don't really

need any new friends. Like there's just a lot. And then she was like, no you guys should

really have brunch. And I was like, well, should have led with that. Of course I have brunch

with this random state representative because that is the national pastime in Atlanta.

We had brunch on New Year's Day and 2014. I had packed my truck by August, drove the 24

hours from Ottawa and Canada where I was living at the time back home to Atlanta. And now

we are here where we are today.

Today, Georgia looks very different than it did on New Year's Day in 2014. Surrounded

by five states that went red, Georgia is a blue state for the first time since 1992.

To understand this shift, journalists, pundits, and everyday Americans have rightfully reflected

on Georgia's 2018 gubernatorial election.

Hello. On September 18, thousands of Georgians began casting absentee ballots, determined

to lift their voices in the democratic process of electing our leaders for the next two years,

the next four years. A few weeks later, more than two million Georgians declared their choices,

heading to polling places for early votes. And then on November 6, more than a million

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