# Georgia Governor's Race **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 6, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-governors-race/820917 "2018-09-06T23:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-governors-race/820917/1 "2018-09-06T23:09:34Z")
Looks like Republican Brian Kemp leads Democrat Stacey Abrams by less than half a percent in the race for governor (3% margin of error). > [@](#): > > Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state, holds the support of 45.3 percent of likely 2018 voters in the survey, slightly ahead of the 44.9 percent supporting Abrams, a former minority leader in the state’s House of Representatives. Some 7.6 percent of voters say they are undecided, while just under 3 percent say they will support a Libertarian candidate Ted Metz. - [The Hill](http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/405475-poll-dem-gop-candidates-for-georgia-governor-dead-even) The article goes on to say that Georgia’s disapproval rating for Trump is at 51%, and that Abrams would be the first black female governor in US history. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/georgia-governors-race/820917/2 "2018-09-07T13:06:05Z")
Georgia has been quite the tease for Democrats the last few cycles. Given the realities of Deep South voting(whites vote 80-90% GOP, blacks 90% Democratic), I suspect it’ll be close but a fairly comfortable GOP win. Predictit is far from sure though, calling it 61% chance of a GOP win, 42% Democratic.