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To: bentway who wrote (388870)	11/18/2018 5:01:25 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542043

Stacey Abrams Really Won November 16, 2018 / John Pavlovitz Stacey Abrams won. The fact that she officially announced she will not be taking the office she ran so beautifully for, is a mere technicality—one that good people who were paying attention, realized was likely a foregone conclusion before a single vote was ever counted. Today is less a terrible surprise, than a long-expected moment of grieving. For months, her opponent made sure this day would come. Already the beneficiary of years of insidious gerrymandering and historic voter suppression that had stacked the deck precariously in his favor—he resorted to blatant theft for safe measure. He chose the same filthy, soulless path that he has seen blazed by similarly small men when facing strong women they are outmatched by and unworthy of: lie and steal and fix the game until you win. Stacey Abrams won. She ran her race with the grace and skill and dignity of an Olympic athlete. Sadly, her adversaries had placed her in a crooked small town carnie game of chance, where her victory was never really a possibility. She was a clear-eyed optimist, believing that doing the work and trusting the process would be enough. It should have been. This is why Stacey Abrams won: because she reminded us that sometimes honesty and decency and character will not yield the results we desire; not because we fail in those endeavors, but because the system sometimes does. continues at johnpavlovitz.com