Georgia senate seats runoff(s) megathread

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Honestly, I think Democrats' chances in the Warnock seat went down a lot the second Perdue slipped under 50%.

Warnock could have made this a straight election of character against Loeffer. But now she might be dragged across the finish line on straight ticket voting.

There hasn't been a split Senate result since SC 1966.

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https://twitter.com/axios/status/1326020210218967040
Imagine opposing universal healthcare in the middle of a pandemic.

Anyway, nothing we didn't already know, but anyone blaming the Left if he loses is totally disingenuous.

maybe he's saying that because he wants to win the state?

Single payer is a lot more popular than Jon Ossoff.

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https://twitter.com/axios/status/1326020210218967040
Imagine opposing universal healthcare in the middle of a pandemic.

Anyway, nothing we didn't already know, but anyone blaming the Left if he loses is totally disingenuous.

maybe he's saying that because he wants to win the state?

Single payer is a lot more popular than Jon Ossoff.

No, it really isn't. At least not as Bernie's M4A bill has it:

When told that Medicare-for-all would abolish private insurance, respondents flip from favoring the plan by a 56 percent to 38 percent margin to opposing it by a 58 percent to 37 percent margin.

Pretty sure Ossoff isn't polling at -21 favorability.

(source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/29/8910387/medicare-for-all-insurance-private-abolish-bruenig)

That's a red herring. Even the UK NHS, which does much further than just single payer, still has private insurance. Single payer is the moderate position.

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Wow, last name doesn't get used much as a tiebreaker. A quick check shows that it has happened before, I found it used for the Missouri Senators seated in 1821. It looks like it was also used for the Florida Senators seated in 1936. In the Florida case, it was a double special election. There are probably some others.

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Speaking of McGrath, she's finally trying to summon resistance boomers to important Senate races:

https://twitter.com/AlxThomp/status/1329455030731223041

McGrift is still grifting.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1339293637922807809

But muh radical leftist Warnock.

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The needle has Perdue and Warnock right now. I really doubt it'll be a split result though.

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Wow, 65% odds for Warnock and 57% for Ossoff. 8% seems rather high for a split result.

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Question so I get the German Wiki entries right:

Is Warnock the first African-American ever to win a statewide race in GA ? Or only statewide for a federal race (excl. Governor, statewide dog-catcher etc.) ?

And I guess he's the first Black Senator from GA ever, right ?

He's the first black Senator elected by the people (rather than a legislature) from a southern state. The others were MS Republicans.

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Is Warnock really the first Black Democratic Senator from the South ?

It's a short list, so peruse at your leisure:

https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/h_multi_sections_and_teasers/Photo_Exhibit_African_American_Senators.htm

All 4 of the other Senate Democrats elected (not just appointed) have run for President this century.