While Hillary Clinton accelerates her presidential campaign with a focus on the Democratic primary, her front-running campaign is making general election plans that include Georgia.
The Clinton campaign is telling Georgia Democrats it considers the state to be in "Tier Two": not a major battleground, but a state that could become one.
"I don't believe by any means Georgia has been eliminated from consideration for activity and investment in the general election," Gordon Giffin, former U.S. Ambassador to Canada under Bill Clinton and a longtime Georgia Democratic insider, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I don't think we've been necessarily included either."
Republicans scoff at the idea that Georgia, which has not voted for a Democrat at the presidential level since Bill Clinton in 1992, belongs in the swing state column. After plenty of hype and millions of dollars in spending, no statewide Democrat broke 45.2 percent last year.
"Obviously, Georgia Democrats can't take the hint: 2014 was a shellacking," said Georgia Republican Party spokesman Ryan Mahoney.
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