*Day 123: Florida Freedom Summer of 2024: Georgia and Young Voters on My
Mind*

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Until U.S. Rep.-elect Maxwell Frost (D-FL), the first GenZ member in
Congress gelled, I was writing these posts from a Cassandra “watch out for
the bad omens” frame of mind, in light of the polls predicting a Red
Wave.   Frost made me realize that the tide actually is coming in with more
young voters, as old-timers like me fade away.

So it was with a smile and pleasure that I began to write today’s post as I
listened to MSNBC-TV talking heads discussing the phenomenon of the young
voter turnout perhaps having resolved the election toward the Democrats,
and admitting that they were considering the idea  seriously for the first
time.

That was followed either on that channel or CNN-TV with an interview with
Michael Moore who has understood this nation better than most since he and
I were in Michigan observing the rise of a Youth Liberation movement in the
early 1970a.

The interviewer questioned him with awe about his assurances before the
election that the polls would be in error because they still fail to take
into account the simple numbers of young people voting, this time in light
of both the loony anti-abortion ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court,  and the
historic inept adult response to the climate change warnings.
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[image: FILE - Young people take part in a protest calling for the
government to take immediate action against climate change in Cape Town,
South Africa, Sept. 24, 2022. The climate change generation is saying
officials are talking too much, listening too little and acting even less.
And they are fed up. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht, File)]

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So with my newfound Pollyanna optimism, I humbly suggest that the
Republican voter suppression laws will work against them, rather than in
their favor, because such draconian poll tax and kindred restrictions will
incense youth antagonism toward that party, to an extent which will make
them the largest Democratic voting bloc for the next decade.

For the moment, GOP restrictions will have an explicit effect in the race
in Georgia on December 6th for the U.S. Senate between the Democrats’ Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., heir, and the Republicans’ Clarence Thomas
throwback, i.e., Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel
Walker.

See attached.  Recently passed legislation effectively prevents the
candidate campaigns from getting new voters registered in time to vote, and
shortening the run-off period, to limit reaching out to remind the public
to go to the polls.

Note that Chase Oliver, the Libertarian Party U.S. Senate Georgia spoiler,
is only 37 years old.  He is not supporting either Warnock or Walker, but
it should be noted here that the Party originally was a split off from the
Republicans in the 1970s, and tends to have members with more college
degrees than either of the two major parties.  That factor should result in
a vote for Warnock rather than Walker on Dec. 6th.  Also, those members
whose 2% forced the run-off, are likely to vote rather than abstain.  If
most Libertarians go for Warnock….

In the long run, nationally, Democrats quietly have taken over state
legislatures they have not controlled in the recent past.  They may begin
to make voter enhancement laws, to increase rather than limit the voter
pools in their states.    (See references attached to both proposed federal
legislation and constitutional amendments billed as “youth” acts, and model
expansions for voter registration, applicable at the state as well as
federal levels.)

Also it would appear that the Democrats have a better than 50-50 chance of
prevailing in Nevada or Arizona or both in the undecided U.S. Senate races
there, and, with strength showing in California, may show a gap of only 5
votes in the U.S. House and perhaps….no.  The Pollyanna spirit has its
limits.

Gabriel Hillel, for Florida Freedom Summer of 2024

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