Georgia senate seats runoff(s) megathread

[SCNCmod]

My guess is Perdue has twice thought he won the Senate race, only to later fall short:

1) In Nov when it initially appeared he would get over 50% of the vote

2) Early last night when turnout was higher than expected, and exit polls seemed to indicate Perdue was going to do much better than expected in the suburbs.

[Podgy the Bear]

When did the Georgia senate delegation was all D?

2001-2003   Miller and Cleland

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

My guess is Perdue has twice thought he won the Senate race, only to later fall short:

1) In Nov when it initially appeared he would get over 50% of the vote

Fell about 14,000 votes short of a surefire Senate majority on Nov. 3rd. 

[LimoLiberal]

The data was all in some favor for the Democrats, but after the 2020 election it's hard to see how they pull it off. Biden may have won the state but it still voted well to the right of the nation and Republicans got more votes than Democrats in the 2020 Senatorial contests. I'm posting this after the election has already taken place and I have not looked at the results. I just have a dark feeling that, whether by a squeaker or not, the R's have won. Even if somehow the result was split between Perdue/Warnock that still means that Cocaine Mitch, not Biden, is going to be the most powerful man in the world this year.

I don't plan on actually looking at the results anytime soon. I plan to distract myself away from this topic. I have no optimism that Democrats have won but I don't feel like confirming this after waking on the wrong side of the bed.

I admire your self-control

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

My guess is Perdue has twice thought he won the Senate race, only to later fall short:

1) In Nov when it initially appeared he would get over 50% of the vote

Fell about 14,000 votes short of a surefire Senate majority on Nov. 3rd. 

If Republicans won the 2016 New Hampshire senate race, they would have 51 seats today. That was only a 1017 vote margin to give the Democrats a trifecta that would come 4 years later.

[MasterJedi]

My guess is Perdue has twice thought he won the Senate race, only to later fall short:

1) In Nov when it initially appeared he would get over 50% of the vote

Fell about 14,000 votes short of a surefire Senate majority on Nov. 3rd. 

If Republicans won the 2016 New Hampshire senate race, they would have 51 seats today. That was only a 1017 vote margin to give the Democrats a trifecta that would come 4 years later.

Alternatively, if Trump had just not acted like a little bitch for two months and Cocaine Mitch would have passed the one popular thing he proposed they would have won these seats.

[wbrocks67]

Well, wbrocks67 was finally right about something. See, getting an avatar helps!

Now we just need Ossoff to get that additional 0.12% to get above 0.5%

[Virginiá]

I for one welcome our new Georgian overlords.

[wbrocks67]

Is there a better upgrade? Crusty and Crooked Perdue and Loeffler to black, young, and jewish Warnock/Ossoff.

Meanwhile, why was CNN trying to doom and mislead everyone last night? I'm glad I didn't tune in.

[Astatine]

My guess is Perdue has twice thought he won the Senate race, only to later fall short:

1) In Nov when it initially appeared he would get over 50% of the vote

Fell about 14,000 votes short of a surefire Senate majority on Nov. 3rd. 

If Republicans won the 2016 New Hampshire senate race, they would have 51 seats today. That was only a 1017 vote margin to give the Democrats a trifecta that would come 4 years later.

Ah, yes, the good old times when Ayotte graciously conceded after the race was called instead of weeks of lawsuits, fraud allegations and recounts.

[walleye26]

I take back everything I ever said bad about the state of Georgia.

[bagelman]

I'm so happy to be wrong once again.

[Beet]

If Warnock and Ossoff do indeed win, that means Biden has to send out the $2,000 checks.

[Boss_Rahm]

Is there a sense of when Warnock and Ossoff will be sworn in? I remember Doug Jones didn't join the Senate until several weeks after the special election in 2017. Could McConnell still be the majority leader the first week or two of the Biden Presidency?

[President Johnson]

Is there a sense of when Warnock and Ossoff will be sworn in? I remember Doug Jones didn't join the Senate until several weeks after the special election in 2017. Could McConnell still be the majority leader the first week or two of the Biden Presidency?

With regard to Ossoff, probably depends on how close the regular election will be. The New York Times projects a 1.1% win, which is outside recount territory. Warnock's win should be certified very soon. I'm not familiar with exact senate procedures, but I doubt this can be delayed for very long.

[Tintrlvr]

Is there a sense of when Warnock and Ossoff will be sworn in? I remember Doug Jones didn't join the Senate until several weeks after the special election in 2017. Could McConnell still be the majority leader the first week or two of the Biden Presidency?

With regard to Ossoff, probably depends on how close the regular election will be. The New York Times projects a 1.1% win, which is outside recount territory. Warnock's win should be certified very soon. I'm not familiar with exact senate procedures, but I doubt this can be delayed for very long.

Certification even in the Warnock race will take a couple of weeks because they need to wait for military absentees and count provisional ballots. Those won’t change the result of course, but certification doesn’t happen until after every vote is counted.

[Podgy the Bear]

Is there a sense of when Warnock and Ossoff will be sworn in? I remember Doug Jones didn't join the Senate until several weeks after the special election in 2017. Could McConnell still be the majority leader the first week or two of the Biden Presidency?

I had thought that Warnock should be sworn in first and immediately, as Loeffler was appointed as interim and this is for a 2 year term and has to run again in 2022.  I would think that this should make Warnock the senior senator and Ossoff the junior.

[President Johnson]

Is there a sense of when Warnock and Ossoff will be sworn in? I remember Doug Jones didn't join the Senate until several weeks after the special election in 2017. Could McConnell still be the majority leader the first week or two of the Biden Presidency?

I had thought that Warnock should be sworn in first and immediately, as Loeffler was appointed as interim and this is for a 2 year term and has to run again in 2022.  I would think that this should make Warnock the senior senator and Ossoff the junior.

Well, Perdue's term has expired since January 3 and the seat is vacant. So Ossoff's term is already shortened by a few days.

[wbrocks67]

So suffice to say, judging by black turnout, it appears that racist attacks on Warnock backfired bigly.

[SnowLabrador]

This has got to be a record for Biggest Senator Upgrades.

[Blair]

Both in a Georgia sense & beyond how common is it for the run-off to be won by someone who finished second?

Warnock finished 1st in the first round, not 2nd.

I know.

But Ossoff didn't & irrc both Collins+Loeffler together did better than Warnock

[Inmate Trump]

Both in a Georgia sense & beyond how common is it for the run-off to be won by someone who finished second?

Warnock finished 1st in the first round, not 2nd.

I know.

But Ossoff didn't & irrc both Collins+Loeffler together did better than Warnock

I thought the combined Dem vote in November performed better than the combined Loeffler/Collins vote?  I really don’t remember and can’t add it myself right now.

[walleye26]

I’m opposed to Stacey Abrams running for Governor in 2022. She needs to run the Florida Democratic Party.

[Blair]

I'm surprised that we haven't seen much coverage of the fact that Loeffler (and Perdue to an extent) ran so far to the right & kept up talking about marxism, cuba & Weinstein; obviously Trump was a huge factor in the drag & changes that we saw but they both ran as if they were running in a state that hadn't just voted for Joe Biden.

I guess we won't be having someone more conservative than Attila the Hun in the senate after all.😞

[Motorcity]

I’m opposed to Stacey Abrams running for Governor in 2022. She needs to run the Florida Democratic Party.

She can be Governor and DNC chair at the same time. That way she has her dream job while helping states like Florida