The right’s Georgia disaster: How outsourcer David Perdue could really blow it

The DSCC is dumping cash into Georgia, one of the few potentially bright spots on Dems' Senate map
By Jim Newell

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And then there’s Georgia, where David Perdue’s constant chatter about how much he loves outsourcing jobs appears to be… hurting?… his image with voters? Who’d have believed it.

A couple of weeks ago, a 2005 deposition surfaced in which Perdue talked about how he’s spent “most of [his] career” outsourcing. He went on to describe how, among other things, his work as a consultant setting up American footwear factories in third-world countries. When asked shortly thereafter how he’d defend himself, he said he was “proud” of his work. The New York Times fleshed out further bits from the Pillowtex bankruptcy lawsuit deposition, like the part where Perdue “expresses more concern with his own financial security than with the tanking business and the 7,600 jobs that were going down with it.”

It’s always helpful for a campaign when hundreds of smoking-gun pages of rapacious capitalist ravings from your rapacious capitalist opponent surface. It sort of ties the whole thing together. We recently suggested that these revelations could turn the otherwise sleepy, pathetic Georgia general election into the most interesting race on the map. That’s still the case.

Perdue is still leading in the Real Clear Politics poll average, but the trend in recent polls — including the most recent, which shows the race tied — is clear. And a couple of days ago, Nunn’s campaign released yet another ad, this one incorporating the “proud” response.



Jim Newell covers politics and media for Salon.
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/15/the_right_could_lose_georgia_how_outsourcer_david_perdue_could_really_blow_it/