I live in Washington State but my work cell phone has a number that once belonged to a woman who moved to Atlanta, and she handed that number out to everyone as her own. (After a year and a half I still get people trying to reach her and I know way too much about her children, debt, and so on.) I’ve been getting non-stop calls and texts for months. I can’t tell you how many people called me to poll me for the elections in Georgia that I had to let down.
I am so looking forward to a break from the damn circus. I live about as far from Georgia as you can be in the contiguous US and I’ve still been living through it.
I live in DeKalb, and, aside from a small enclave in the northern part of the county, it’s solidly Democratic. (And even Dunwoody, the city in the heart of the Republican part of the county, has a Democratic mayor. She’s a personal friend of my family, and a thoroughly competent woman, incidentally.)
To be fair, though, DeKalb has a history of mismanagement and governmental incompetence. This is the county where a sitting sheriff murdered his newly-elected replacement.
I so so so want this to be true but according to one of the comments: “I thought the same at first too. Except he was referring to Ossoff’s loss to Karen Handel.”
Not entirely. As @ISiddiqui pointed out, Loeffler energized the black vote against her. There have been Warnock volunteers with signs on the major intersection near my house for the past several weekends.
I was in a debate society at Georgia with Gabriel Sterling, incidentally. He was one of the conservative firebrands, but I’ve gotten a lot of respect for him for standing up to the Bully-in-Chief.
Sterling said on cnn trump suppressed the republicans and energized the democrats. Loeffler, now that was absolutely stupid and the reason why warnock is so far ahead.
Last night they were talking about her attack on the church.
There is a history in US politics at the national level of power flipping between GOP and Dems. Bush Sr. is the last time a party kept the presidency across candidates and he is one of the few one-term presidents. Obama and Democrats won handily in 2008 but eventually lost both houses.
I wonder if part of the reason is that when a party gets control they start moving away from the center, pushing a small number in the middle to the other side. If the Democrats move enough to the left the next GA elections will favor the GOP. 538 has already started a conversation on the Democrats losing the house in 2022.
As a moderate I have some vested interest in this being true, and maybe this would be a more interesting discussion in a separate thread.
Just a reminder: the Constitution states that, “Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members. . .” I would not be at all surprised if there was a Republican effort to refuse to seat certainly Ossoff, maybe both Ossoff and Warnock, on the basis that they were elected through massive fraud.
I don’t think this would be successful, but it could hold up seating one or both men for weeks or months while the Senate conducts an investigation of the election. And all that time McConnell would continue as Majority Leader.
No I haven’t heard anything. It must be something really bad to the most openly racist campaign EVER. But that would explain her loss. Did she use the n-word?
Yes indeed, that would be an interesting thread.
I will just say here that I am a moderate too, by international standards. In my native UK, I have voted for Labour, The Conservatives and The Liberal Democrats in various elections.
But the US doesn’t have Left and Right right now, it has a center-right party (the Democrats) and a fucking lunatic conspiracy theory party (the Republicans).
