I'd hesitate to call Georgia deep purple until we actually see what future elections look like. Stacey did good work, but what saved us this time was extremely high turnout for a runoff. Even Republicans had extremely high turnout for runoff, just less.
Both were lower, Democrat turnout was less lower. It was a runoff. The rough-don't-quote-me relative turnout was ~90% of election day numbers in dem counties and ~85-87% in pub counties
Fair, trying to be optimistic. But hopefully we can keep the energy through 2022. Can't waste it by not getting anything accomplished for those voters.
I mean, the thing about the vote splitters here is you gotta imagine the 1% "pretentious smartass" demographic who'd vote for one dem and one pub and realize their reasoning is probably bullshit anyway.
Yeah like half a million less people turned out for the runoff. And I suspect mainly repubs while Dems enthusiasm stayed the same.
I think the idea for Georgia is that it is a very young, extremely diverse state that is currently growing fast in those demographics with a shrinking/aging rural white population. I think it may be solidly blue by the time Ossoff faces re-election in 2026. For Abrams/Warnock in 2022, it may be more difficult pending the course of the next 2 years but I think they should at least be even odds or slight favorites in any races they run.
Yeah, if she doesn't want the job and wants to be governor, that's obviously OK. But I still hope it happens, lol
Hmm, I hadn't thought of that. Maybe that might partially explain Trump over-performing in the Midwest this time around. I imagine there's some Republicans in Michigan for example who saw Obama win big twice and thought it was pointless but turned out in 2020 after seeing Trump win in 2016.
I think this episode is worth pointing to as an example of someone who was universally derided as a dud when really, the reasons he lost the Georgia's 6th special in 2017 were probably more circumstantial than anything. Historically red district that didn't like Trump, but this was pre-Charlottesville and pre-ACA repeal, the two things in Trump's first year in office that dragged down his approval ratings the most. Ossoff also lived (ten minutes) outside the district which made for an unfortunately easy talking point that he couldn't like, readily address.
Yup. But the part where he crushed Perdue and his support is when he called him a crook right to his face and Perdue was looking like a robot. That was the fatal blow.
I've no idea what possessed her to make that Atilla ad
Yeah pretty much came off barbaric and I'm sure when they saw her acting like a robot def sunk her.
Aoc, Pelosi, Omar, and Schumer. I always found it funny they don't acknowledge Biden
I think it helps that Ossoff is secure until a much later election. It gives extra time for GA to shift left and hopefully for more voter protections to be put into legislation.
