Georgia senate seats runoff(s) megathread

[LabourJersey]

Well predictit has flipped now and quite considerably.

Quite a shame. The last thing the country needs is 1 party domination at the federal level, divided government would have been so much better.

What monster will we have in 2024 now.

Genuinely can't tell this is satire or not, but having a legislature and executive that are on the same page is good, actually.

[LabourJersey]

How long has it been since there was a clergyman in the Senate? I know there are some in the House, but for the Senate do you have to go back to John Danforth?

I think James Lankford from OK is an evangelical minister IIRC

[LabourJersey]

McConnell in particular 100% deserved losing his Senate majority after blocking the 2k checks. F*** him..

Are you looking forward to having the most powerful Senator?

Doubly hilarious as Manchin and West Virginia in general faces a lot of criticism on Atlas..

Unjustly!

West Virginia will surpass Delaware as the most politically relevant state of the Biden administration!

[LabourJersey]

McConnell in particular 100% deserved losing his Senate majority after blocking the 2k checks. F*** him..

Are you looking forward to having the most powerful Senator?

Doubly hilarious as Manchin and West Virginia in general faces a lot of criticism on Atlas..

Unjustly!

West Virginia will surpass Delaware as the most politically relevant state of the Biden administration!

I can't wait for 2024 rentier state West Virginia, full of gleaming high rises and monuments.

Charleston WV becomes the new destination for hipsters, connected to DC via bullet train.

[LabourJersey]

I am now projecting Stacey Abrams has won the governor race in 2022.

At minimum I fully expect Biden, Warnock, Ossoff, Obama, and Harris to do everything in their power to help her.

She handed the Democrats the White House and the senate and turned Georgia into a blue state much faster than one thought.

I get we all want to give Abrams credit right now, but there are hundreds or thousands of staffers and volunteers for the Georgia Democratic party who deserve just as much. They all worked pretty tirelessly in this race, in November, and in 2018 to build up the ground game and the infrastructure to make these wins happen. Don't forget to recognize their work!

[LabourJersey]

late ballots push Ossoff over 60% in Gwinnett

Still shocking to me considering Bush got 67% there. 16 years is a while, sure, but it still blows my mind as a Fulton County native.

The localized realignment is really interesting to look at. It feels like the nation as a whole has barely realigned since 2000, there are a few differences but most of the Jesusland states are still voting Republican and most USC states are voting Democrat. But in pockets like the Atlanta suburbs, the realignment is very much like the transitional periods in previous party systems.

Meh, I disagree. There's been a realignment in much of the country. Colorado, NM, Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina and even Texas have seen very significant swings, as have Missouri (the perennial swing state), Iowa, Ohio, western Pennsylvania and rural parts of Wisconsin and Michigan have seen rapid shifts.

Orange County CA voted for a Democratic presidential candidate by nine points! A Republican won Mahoning County! We've been some shifts that would have shocked someone from 2000 or 2004