Good catch, thanks. I’d much rather be Ossoff, he gets six years to build his record while Warnock will be back on the ballot in 22 months.
I thought I had read somewhere that if the House passed articles of impeachment, the Senate would have to be called back into session almost immediately. But on further searching, that seems to be wrong, and you are right.
So I take back my implied apsersion of Raffensperger’s motives. On this point only. He and his boss, Gov. Kemp, are still vote-suppressing assholes.
No doubt, but Perdue was the more difficult Senator to dislodge. So higher risk, higher reward, I guess 
Just sent to me by a friend:
A black guy and a Jew walk into a redneck bar in Georgia. The bartender asks, “What’ll you have, Senators?”
No, clearly they are communists! 
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A day after she called for peace and healing following the riots at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem called Georgia’s two incoming Democratic senators communists.
Noem made her comments about incoming Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in an op-ed published Friday by the conservative online magazine The Federalist. In her piece, which focuses on her views about what the Republican Party must do going forward, Noem criticized the election of Ossoff and Warnock in Tuesday’s runoff election.
Funny that she’s got so much time on her hands that she can comment on two new U.S. senators from another state: Kristi Noem is playing politics while Covid-19 burns through her state | CNN Politics
Insane woman who wants to kill off her own constituents.
Well, when you don’t take COVID seriously, that frees up a lot of time. No need for press briefings, looking out for people who don’t wear masks, ordering hand sanitizer, tracking superspreader events…
You’ll notice Andrew Cuomo hasn’t called them communists. That’s because he has his hands full dealing with the virus.
Or something.
Georgia Republicans want to do everything they can to avoid losing again, and I mean everything:
It’s not going to help Kemp and Raffesperger. I think they’re both done. They’ll either get primaried or lose in the general election when the hardcore Trumpists abandon them.
oh no.
kemp and raffensperger might lose.
how terrible.
Depends on who beats them.
The overall lesson of the Trump era is that it can always get worse. . .
From someone living in Georgia, a Governor Doug Collins would terrify me.
Jeez. I was having one of my rare moments of optimism, thinking about the potential of a Governor Stacey Abrams 
. I think she has a decent shot, probably around 50/50 at worst, if she decides to run.
Considering the voter suppression bills making their way through the Georgia Senate and Georgia House, my optimism for 2022 is fading fast.
I’d put money Abrahms becoming govenor even in the face of vote-restricting efforts, if she decides to run. Her brand is that strong. Why wouldn’t she run?
That’s the million dollar question. Georgia isn’t the only state with a Republican legislature passing voter suppression efforts. It could be she ends up deciding to spend her time fighting those efforts on a national level rather than focusing on Georgia. That’s one reason she might not, but I’m sure it’s not the only one.
Georgia might be approaching the tipping point where Pubbies can’t suppress enough of the vote to win at the statewide level. Yes, it’s still too damn close but if Dem voters remain disciplined and follow the hateful rules, they can win. The overall numbers are on their side.
A Dem governor would be a massive achievement but, as usual in too many states, there’s a terribly gerrymandered legislature that will take years to overcome.
I don’t think there’s any reason to think this at all. A state going from red-to-blue isn’t linear. It was already highly likely that Georgia Democrats would see some downturn in turn out given that 2022 is a midterm election. With voter suppression Republicans could lock that in for years to come. It’s easy to say that if Democrats remain disciplined and follow the new rules that they can still win, but voters are people. They have other things to do besides vote, and not as many are going to turn out if they have to take a bus across town to wait in line for six hours to cast a vote that’s rejected because they didn’t have the proper form of ID.