Will the South rise up for GOP? | TheHill

The Republican Party’s path to Senate control runs straight through the South, leaving Democrats fighting not to be wiped out completely in the region.

“You’ve got a number of the key races in the South this year,” said Emory University Professor Alan Abramowitz, who’s studied the region’s political history extensively.

In Georgia, businessman David Perdue (R) seems to have the edge against former charity executive Michelle Nunn (D) in the heavily Republican but Democratic-trending state. Three of the last four public polls have him with a small lead, though many of those same pollsters missed badly on the open primary.

Democratic groups haven’t spent as heavily in Georgia as in other states, a sign of their reluctance to commit resources to the expensive state. Nunn has a cash edge in the race that she’s been leveraging in recent weeks with harsh attacks on Perdue’s business record.

“I think it’s going to be hard for Democrats to hang on to these seats,” said Abramowitz, of Emory. “These candidates like Grimes and Michelle Nunn, they’re running as more traditional moderate to conservative Democrats distancing themselves from the national party, but it’s much harder to do that now than it was 30 years ago when there were a lot of them down here.”

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