Georgia senate seats runoff(s) megathread

[Benjamin Frank]

This hasn't been mentioned. Don't forget that even Joe Biden isn't at 50% in Georgia.  The Libertarian Party is around 2.5% of the vote in Georgia (in the Perdue-Ossoff Senate race) and historically their voters go heavily to the Republicans in any runoff.

I'm sure some of that 2.5% (114,483 votes right now) for the Libertarian candidate wasn't for the Libertarians but was a 'none of the above vote' but, the Libertarian Party does have a good organization in Georgia (relatively speaking) so, there are a fair number of genuine Libertarian voters in Georgia and historically they've gone heavily to the Republican in any runoff.

[Benjamin Frank]

Kelly Loeffler is asking for votes to 'stop socialism.'

But, Kelly Loeffler, as co-owner of the Atlanta Dream WNBA team benefited from the 3% tax placed on car rentals in Georgia that financed $62.5 million of the building of the then named Philips Arena which the Atlanta Dream played in from 2008-2016 (the team moved out when Philips Arena was renovated.)

It seems pretty clear that Kelly Loeffler was for socialism before she was against it, and that she was specifically for socialism when it benefited her personally.

[Benjamin Frank]

I don't know if anybody cares about this, but Loeffler's claim to be self made are as completely false as everything else she said.  She referred to having worked on her parents farm and having worked as a waitress.  This is what she left out:

She financed her graduate school tuition by mortgaging land inherited from her grandparents.

In 2002, she joined Intercontinental Exchange, a commodity and financial service provider, in investor relations.[17] She married the firm's CEO, Jeffrey Sprecher, in 2004.[15][18] Loeffler was eventually promoted to senior vice president of investor relations and corporate communications.[19] In 2018, she became the chief executive officer (CEO) of Bakkt, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Loeffler

Two other things:
1.For those using dated arguments on the merits of wiki, I would certainly take its word over the word of a liar like Kelly Loeffler.

2.I have no problem with people, primarily women obviously, marrying into positions of power.  I have a problem when people claim to be something they're not.