Georgia senate seats runoff(s) megathread

[H. Ross Peron]

Leo Frank's revenge.

[wbrocks67]

Has anyone checked on Karen Handel tonight

[Calthrina950]

Wrong background, no?

I'd say so, because Ted Stevens of Alaska is the only one of these defeated Republican Senators who is dead.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

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?

[wbrocks67]

So there are probably like 200,000 votes left in DeKalb to be counted?

Yep

[Skunk]

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.

[wbrocks67]

NYT needle has Warnock at 90% and +1.8 and Ossoff at 76% and +1.1

[DrScholl]

Loeffler has to be the weakest candidate run in a competitive state in a long ass time.

Karen Handel is pretty good competition for weakest candidate.

At least Karen Handel won some races before failing.

[Alben Barkley]

Steve Kornacki says DeKalb officials expect a "significant" drop before 11 EST.

[politicallefty]

According to Kornacki, big vote dump coming from DeKalb before 11pm EST.

[Badger]

Wonder how MillennialModerate is reacting to getting Georgia horribly wrong, again

Oblivious to change or Insight, per usual.

[BudgieForce]

Guess I can stay up another 40 minutes.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

GEOFFREY SKELLEY
JAN. 5, 10:00 PM
And while incumbency isn’t necessarily worth as much as it once was, Perdue won in 2014, so he’s been elected in his own right. Loeffler is an appointed incumbent, which, practically speaking, means the race is functioning as an open seat.

Another point against the "Loeffler is uniquely weak" argument.

[Zache]

Will any major network call either of the races tonight?

[wbrocks67]

MSNBC: SIGNIFCANT DEKALB DUMP BEFORE 11PM EST

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

Immigratiom reform, please?!

[compucomp]

DeKalb incoming?

[pppolitics]

What's going on with DeKalb?

[WD]

[Coldstream]

Congratulations Minority Leader McConnell.

[AncestralDemocrat.]

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

[Roll Roons]

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.

[Adam Griffin]

In the core Democratic counties, if raw turnout is at 100% of November's total*, here's what is left:

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Dekalb		247,000
Cobb 		224,000
Gwinnett 	        103,000
Fulton		92,000            
Chatham		59,000
Muscogee    	27,000
Richmond	        13,000
Bibb		        9,000
Dougherty  	8,000
Clarke		6,000

Total                 788,000

Likely 500k votes or more remaining in these counties - none of which were less than 56% D in November (overall, the average is somewhere 65-70% D).

Easily two-thirds or more of the outstanding vote is in these counties.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

President Biden
Vice President Harris
Speaker Pelosi
Majority Leader Schumer

Senator Ossoff
Senator Warnock

All my dreams are coming true!

[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