Georgia senate seats runoff(s) megathread

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"Subset" of a million is interesting phrasing

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The real question is if Ossoff/Warnock win, how quickly do Republicans drop the run off system.

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It seems in many of these rural counties Loeffler and Perdue are running just behind Trump, or perhaps even, though with slightly lower turnout.

[new_patomic]

Still think Perdue and Loeffler are slight favorites. We knew that Dems would likely outperform Biden in the early vote, but the e-day vote is still the big unkown.

Not really seeing as the e-day vote is also being counted, Dems are still largely outperforming expectations or it's a wash, and completed small rural counties show for the most part that R turnout is down and margins are not any better than they were for Trump.

Of course, turnout could also end up down in many of the Democratic counties too when it's all said and done, all those reports about Dekalb aside.

We'll just have to wait and see.

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Perhaps all the attacks on Warnock's faith actually backfired by motivating black voters to turn out.

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Maybe it wouldn't have made a difference.

But one can't help but wonder how it might have gone had McConnell just said **** it, what difference does another $400B make, and allowed $2000 checks.

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You have to admit that Mark Kirk was a good guy. Easily the most liberal Republican Senator this decade.

This isn't relevant to the thread but Mark Kirk ran a racist campaign against Tammy Duckworth in the closing weeks. Not a "good guy" by any means even if he is better than most if not all of his Republican colleagues.

He had a stroke that completely messed up his brain. Mark was extremely sharp before that, winning reelection to his House seat by 6 points in the middle of a massive Democratic wave year as Obama carried it with 61%. That speaks volumes about how strong he was.

It speaks volumes that the Chicago Tribune actually endorsed Duckworth specifically because they did not believe Kirk had the wherewithal to remain an effective Senator.