# Who is favored in the Walker/Warnock runoff for the Georgia Senate seat? (Updated: Warnock wins) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 10, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691 "2022-11-10T13:44:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/221 "2022-12-08T02:07:52Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think that the key difference between the parties is that we Democrats don’t have folks like Walker, at least not in the general election. Nor Boebert, nor Greene, nor Gaetz, nor Trump himself. Maybe the closest is “Guam can tip over” and “imagine a world without balloons” Hank Johnson in the House. But he’s not **dangerously** bad, just amusingly so. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/222 "2022-12-08T10:10:14Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think that the key difference between the parties is that we Democrats don’t have folks like Walker, at least not in the general election. For one strange moment 12 years ago, Democrats had Alvin Greene. Still not entirely sure how that happened. > **[Alvin Greene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Greene)** > > Alvin Michael Greene (born August 30, 1977) is an American political candidate from the state of South Carolina. He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 2010 United States Senate election in South Carolina, and was defeated by incumbent Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, 61.48% to 27.65%. Greene is the first African-American to be nominated for U.S. Senate by a major party in South Carolina. > Greene is notable for the suspicions among members of his own party regarding the legitimacy of his 2010... ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/223 "2022-12-08T10:52:57Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I’m more talking about folks who didn’t vote for him in the primary but voted for him in the general, because they believe he’d advance policy that they believe is critical. > **[Well, they were wrong then, Weren't they - Frankenstein Igor - Meme Generator](https://memegenerator.net/instance/50649532)** > > Well, they were wrong then, Weren't they - Frankenstein Igor Seriously, though, I gotta vote for the one who’s going to make people’s lives better rather than worse. The answer to “which one is that?” isn’t even controversial. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/224 "2022-12-08T15:38:21Z")
One small difference: > At multiple points during the campaign, the South Carolina Democratic Party called for Greene to withdraw his candidacy. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/225 "2022-12-08T21:11:35Z")
I thought of a potential equivalent: Gweneth Paltrow. I imagine her politics are vaguely liberal, but she’s batshit insane. She hurts people pushing woo on them. She’d be an absolute disaster as an elected official. But if she was running against say, Liz Chaney, who is principled and honest and competent. I’d vote for Paltrow all the way. Because she would probably mostly do as she was told, and she wouldn’t actively work against my own political goals. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/226 "2022-12-10T17:10:35Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > And the farther down the chain you go, the more likely I might lean that way. Insurance commissioner? More likely than governor. etc. You’re more generous than I. On my ballot were two minor offices where a Republican ran unopposed, Mine Inspector for one and something I forget – Constable, maybe – for the other. I undervoted them. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/227 "2022-12-10T17:42:53Z")
Eh, not sure how that’s a big deal… I never bother voting in any unopposed race, no matter which side it is. I mean, maybe if it were someone I knew personally, a friend or family member or something, but otherwise, why would I? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/228 "2022-12-10T17:55:18Z")
Neither do I unless, as you said, it’s someone I know or really, really like. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/229 "2022-12-10T18:21:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think that the key difference between the parties is that we Democrats don’t have folks like Walker, at least not in the general election. Nor Boebert, nor Greene, nor Gaetz, nor Trump himself. The closest examples I can recall of similar buffoonery and corruption on the Democratic side were the LaRouchies who infiltrated the Illinois party (firmly opposed by the Democratic party leadership when they realized what was going on), Jim Traficant (expelled from the House by a nearly unanimous bipartisan vote), and Gary Condit\* (defeated in the next primary). \*Small-World Note: Condit was the one vote against the expulsion of Traficant. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/230 "2022-12-10T21:15:57Z")
Walker is devastated that he didn’t get 100% of the votes in his home county. He is reported to have said that he’s going to have the sheriff find out who didn’t vote for him. > **[Defeated Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker was 'absolutely...](https://www.businessinsider.com/herschel-walker-johnson-county-georgia-100-percent-vote-shocked-kemp-2022-12)** > > Last month, Walker easily defeated Warnock in Johnson County 74%-26%, but the Republican was still taken aback by the result, per The Daily Beast. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/231 "2022-12-10T21:53:59Z")
Probably Georgia Tech fans. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/232 "2022-12-10T21:55:28Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > He is reported to have said that he’s going to have the sheriff find out who didn’t vote for him. Can’t Walker just go house-to-house, flash his badge, and make everyone tell him who they voted for? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691/233 "2022-12-10T23:59:37Z")
What a total buffoon. Jeez. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-favored-in-the-walker-warnock-runoff-for-the-georgia-senate-seat-updated-warnock-wins/974691.md?page=11)