After all, “winning doesn’t always mean you get the prize.” If the “prize” is the quantifiable electoral majority, the victory she embraces arose from her campaign’s activation of the “New American Majority - that coalition of people of color, young people and moderate to progressive whites.” Nevertheless, she considers her campaign to be a success. Abrams is not governor of Georgia, and she begins her speeches reminding audiences of this stinging matter of fact. “Our Time Is Now” is not a political memoir or a long-form résumé rather, it is a striking manifesto, a stirring indictment and a straightforward road map to victory. Eventually the situation was sorted and the woman, Stacey Abrams, cast a historic vote for herself as the first black woman to represent a major political party as a gubernatorial candidate. This woman was educated, prepared and determined to participate in the democratic process. Scores of voters were purged from the rolls and others were forced to wait in lines for hours. Such snafus were rampant, and not just in the state of Georgia. When she arrived, she was refused a ballot because records showed that she had already voted absentee. In 2018, a black woman arrived at her polling place to cast her vote for Stacey Abrams in the Georgia gubernatorial race. OUR TIME IS NOW Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America By Stacey Abrams
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