This is the problem though - GA voters only enthusiastically threw out one incumbent. Perdue won in November by nearly 2%, and Warnock only got 33% of the vote (vs 46% by the Loeffler + Collins). If GA voters turn out like they did Nov 3, the Dems lose.
True by most previous elections this would be a slam dunk for the GOP. I can't recall though members of one party including the head of the party calling for their supporters to boycott an election that the odds favor them winning.
Just registered? Democrat? You'll be lucky if you can even vote in TEXAS, bro. They'll be redistricting house-by-house eventually.
but since then, more details of Perdue's many insider trading have surfaced. then, we only know about his buying/selling bio tech stocks now, we also know that he had purchase stock of defense contractors who were getting Gov contract, and then selling them after his Senate committee had awarded the contracts. ur being intellectually dishonest, just the facts ,Warnock had received 33% of the vote to Loeffler's only 26% in the November election.
As we've seen nationally, voters haven't really been voting on things like that. It's simply GOP vs. Dem. Nonsense - yes, Warnock got more of the vote than Loeffler alone. But Collins/Loeffler was a legitimate race - people were voting for those two thinking one or the other could win and trying to get their candidate in the runoff. They are down-the-line GOPers and their votes will translate to the other. Warnock was the clear Dem - all the other votes for the random lesser Dems (and lesser GOPers) aren't going to be nearly as reliable because he's a bit of a unique candidate and those people were willing to throw their votes away the first time for minor candidates that weren't going to win. Many will, of course, translate to Warnock, but likely not as many as Collins voters. It's really disappointing for Dems that Warnock couldn't consolidate more of the vote in an election - he was polling 8% higher than he ended at: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/e...enate_special_election_open_primary-7069.html
need to get out of your bubble nonsense. what is disappointing is that GOP could not come up w a good enough candidate. if Collins, Loeffler or Perdue were any good, in a traditionally red state like Georgia, they'd no problem getting >50% of vote. it underscores how weak of a candidate the incumbent Loeffler is, unable to get more than 26% of the vote
I am amazed that Georgians even consider this candidate. Not a native Georgian, basically an empty headed sorority girl that married the CEO of the investment company she worked for, then placed in leadership positions in her sugar daddy's companies. So basically a rich sorority carpetbagger who has since made money from insider info she got from COVID-19 briefings.
I'm skeptical that Warnock and/or Ossoff will win but that's kind of a suspect way of viewing jungle primary elections. To use the GA-6 special election as an example, Ossoff got 48% of the vote that time and lost the runoff despite Handel getting only 18% in the initial vote (but ultimately winning the runoff). Ultimately, Handel basically consolidated all Republican voters in the runoff despite only winning a fraction of them in the general. To use an even more recent example, in the 2019 Louisiana governor's race, there was only 1 Democrat on the ballot (John Bel Edwards) who despite being an incumbent and the only Democrat, only got 46.6% of the vote. The combined vote of the two primary Republicans in that election hit 50%. Yet Edwards ended up winning the runoff because African American turnout in the runoff actually improved over the general and northern Lousiiana didn't uniformly shift from voting for Ralph Abraham to Eddie Rispone. And all of this was in spite of the fact that the combined totals for Republican candidates was over 50% in the general. Edwards ended up doing 5 points better in the runoff than the general. So in this scenario, Edwards actually benefited from a more friendly electorate in the runoff than the general. The point is that its really hard to draw conclusions about runoff elections based on the general election results. The GA-6 and the LA-Gov runoffs worked completely differently. In one of them, R and D voters just consolidated around a single candidate (GA-6) while in the other, Democrats managed to get a more favorable electorate (LA-Gov).
Kelly Loeffler really does seem like she’s some robot...she acts like something off Westworld the words “radical liberal” were clearly embedded into her programming prior to her debate with Warnock
