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    In Georgia gubernatorial race, Stacey Abrams has a real chance to make history

    by Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times Oct 31, 2018 6 minutes

    THOMASTON, Ga. - For the first time in her life, Cathy Greenman has planted a blue political campaign sign in her yard on a quiet country road in middle Georgia.

    It's a lone sign here for Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor who is locked in a razor-close gubernatorial contest against Brian Kemp, a brash conservative Republican who aligns himself with President Donald Trump.

    Trump won this rural stretch of Upson County overwhelmingly in 2016. But the retired elementary school teacher is hopeful that some, at least, of her neighbors are now leaning toward voting for an entirely different kind of candidate. At an early-vote rally last week for Abrams at a historic African-American church in Thomaston, Ga., Greenman, who is white, was surprised to spot friends, former co-workers, and old high school classmates squeezed into the wooden pews.

    "Democrats for so long have been quiet," she said. "But people

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