Both seats needed for Democrat control of the senate. The difference between functioning government and complete gridlock.

What are your predictions? Polls (for what they're worth) have it real close. I've been reading that Abrams and them have been doing a good job turning people out, while Republicans are tearing each other apart.

The stock market is way down today. Some are attributing that to sentiment that both Democrats will win since stability and gridlock is valued by the market.

Personally, I'm optimistic. In normal circumstances, I'd say the Republicans win since the turnout for any and every election. But it feels like they don't have the same motivation that they usually do.

but thats the optimism in me

reality actually thinks GA does what GA does...

maybe Trump and his tweets and the $600 fiasco are enough to push us over the finish line.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

i can only hope the momentum kept growing and the dems can take both seats. no idea if they will be able to though.

I early voted a couple weeks ago.

Tomorrow....I really hope for the best. Skeptical of course but the fact that the presidential election went blue gives me hope

Kamala was in my hometown yesterday with DNice. They hit August today and will be here in Atlanta tomorrow. We've had all type of drive in concerts and shit. The effort is there for sure....I just hope there's no BS at the polls

and hoping i'm dead wrong

Why? The voter suppression has been kicked up into super high gear.

And Republicans VOTE because they know it matters.

While non Republicans will stay away thing "Does it really matter?"

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Trump has single handedly changed the idea that Democrats dont care or certain people wont show up. Early voting for the run off is already light years ahead of past voting after a general election.

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>and hoping i'm dead wrong

Not to mention I live directly adjacent to a concert venue with a large parking lot where they've been having rallies and concerts outside.

I never made early voting so I'll let yall know what the lines look like tomorrow.

Early voting numbers are interesting: https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/GA_RO.html

118,000 voters that didn't participate in the general. I don't know if those were ambivalent democrats or ambivalent republicans lol.

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than they did for the general.

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1345120553519222785
https://twitter.com/umichvoter99/status/1345181559314391043

turnout is up among black voters (especially in black rural areas) and in the traditional dem strongholds like metro/suburban atl,

turnout is depressed in red rural areas...including where trump is campaigning today.

https://twitter.com/1PatriciaMurphy/status/1345055954069553152
https://twitter.com/JustinGrayWSB/status/1345112797663866881

even pro repub/trump pollster trafalgar has both repubs losing by a slim margin.
https://twitter.com/RobertCahaly/status/1343965974568034306

im cautiously optimistic at this point. its possible republicans are gonna be confronted with the fact that their base isnt as motivated without trump on the ticket.

one underdiscussed fact about georgia elections is that dems are participating more in mail/early voting and ga replaced untraceable touchscreen voting machines with those requiring a paper backup. both things make it harder to fudge the numbers and steal elections.

There was so much enthusiasm surrounding Jaime Harrison and that race was not close at all.

not to mention abrams most likely won georgia in 2018 without massive voter suppression (and her opponent running his own election).

the one thing that gives me a lil faith in ga (especially going into the future) is that the state party and abrams have have found ways to successfully localize even national elections (something dem parties in states like fl and oh have consistently failed to do).

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like the people finally saw what happens when you say fuck it, not this time and just go hard and vote and drag their cousins with them

really hoping Trump fucked voters heads up with the fraud talk and their voters sit this one out.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/01/04/georgia-senate-elections-rural-black-voters-biden-fate-column/4115050001/

To watch while he was at Auburn and throughout his NFL career. Glad to see he seems to be doing well in retirement. He needs to run for office!

or drive in rural areas and get the “aww shit, we in Klan land” and then see nothing but Black faces on porches

in the North these are 99.9% white folk in rural areas

but in the south? Its like 60/40 Black in most rural areas.

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I met him when he was still playing. we were both rehabbing injuries. I forget who was playing for at the time, but he tore his achilles. I'd torn my acl and some other shit.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

https://giphy.com/gifs/reactiongifs-uDwKGxTFrADvO

i hope its enough to get both over the hump and not split the win.

�If a fat guy falls in the woods and there is no one around to see it, do the trees laugh?

I was skeptical as fuck going in, but it's looking good right now.

in american history.

dems need to have an organized hierarchy under a modern version of party bosses like her in all 50 states.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1346663251115962368
https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1346658756285894661

their leader was just arrested yesterday.
https://twitter.com/ktbenner/status/1346231096317517824

tomorrow could get real messy. in a good way (for us). if those nerdy white antifa niggas just stay out of the way and let them hoes fight (c).

imagine waking up tomorrow as atlanta is being called for both dem senators...the repub stunt in congress getting laughed at as biden gets formally announced by mike pence...and proud boys getting their asses kicked throughout the dc streets by their former allies.

its morning again in american (c) the gipper

joe biden.

https://twitter.com/gdebenedetti/status/1346638113448349702

from dekalb.

Looking that way so far, unless I’m missing something with Ossof.

with most of the vote left in blue counties.

he should be good.

looks like he could win by a biden-like margin and warnock would outpace them both.

https://twitter.com/BrendanKeefe/status/1346676390578577410

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErBdDJuW4AAhLBE?format=jpg&name=900x900

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1346708685503004673

and raffensperger tells trump to go fuck himself when he asks for a voluntary one.

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1346676816438706176

these niggas are weirdos.

they wild.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

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Election season needs to end

he has done nothing but exemplify weakness in his current position.

give it to somebody like dick durbin. safe blue seat. non polarizing. not beholden to the 2 big coastal metro political universes.

basically he can do everything schumer would functionally do in the role without making people hate him.

he doesnt look like an embecile reading speeches on the senate floor with his glasses on the tip of his nose either.

edit: down side is hes older than schumer

we really need to get schumer out of there tho and i cant think of anyone else that would be a shoe in to unify the caucus if chuck stepped down.

to God's ears.

Put her in charge of distributing the Covid vaccine, rename an old confederate military base after her just to further piss off people in Georgia, give her a Presidential Medal of Freedom, have her do the coin toss at the Super Bowl.

2021 shall forever be the year of our savior Stacey Abram.

if Buttigieg can get a job by dropping out of the race, Abrams needs a position for challenging the race.

take a message

I hope Mitch McConnell shit his pants tonight. I hope he is so sad.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

https://twitter.com/jennymedina/status/1346688080804077568

the 'progressive religious left'.

huh? thats some white academic categorization that only some detached member of the dc cocktail class could let fly out their mouth.

its the black church.

the same people that were shit on for not being sufficiently progressive because they came out heavily for biden in the primary...are now apparently the ethnically generic 'progressive religious left' garnering the credit for putting georgias 1st black senator in office.

Of the black church and he just seemed more authentic than Ossof.

Ossof is more the progressive, academic, cocktail hour class of the DNC and he is the one struggling to win.

https://twitter.com/donnaimamTX/status/1346685356125675521

nvm the fact that kamala harris was pushing for $2k payments months ago.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2020/07/17/second-stimulus-checks-kamala-harris/?sh=112eca347b4a

people are tying themselves up in knots trying to maintain their progressive personal stance with the successes of the more moderate areas of the party

With Manchin around, this isn't going to be a "progressive" or liberal senate, but that doesn't mean they can't pass some decent legislation.

IF nothing else, Biden appointments get through. They can finally pass another voting rights act. They can can pass some meaningful COVID-related stimulus. They're not going to be able overhaul health care reform (there won't be single payer), but I figure they can improve the ACA. They can probably do some environmental reform. Some tax reform (certainly increase the taxes on the super rich). Immigration reform probably won't happen, but I don't think they're going to be kids in cages. I think police reform on the federal level isn't going to happen.

So, I'm cautiously optimistic for the next two years. Try to get as much done as possible while you full control.

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these arent sexy but they matter.

reverse every trump executive order.
kill every last minute trump administrative/agency rule change (congressional review act only requires a majority).
confirm all biden govt appointments.
confirm all biden judges.
reverse trump tax cuts (budget reconciliation process via simple majority).
pass voting rights reform (budget reconciliation again).
launch meaningful investigations in *both* chambers.

and maybe most importantly (at least immediately) take control of the covid mitigation effort.

and they can at least put legislation on the floor and force repubs to make their votes known (mcconnell protected his members by not making them take a public stance).

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https://twitter.com/GuardianUS/status/1346698613087494145

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

i think he might actually have a chance to unite the country with that.

to keep peace. fuck that. I want justice. I will feel so much better if these people go to jail.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

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well...............?

and an inability to just hide behind Mitch for 4 years straight.

now it'll be Joe Manchin being the killjoy. that might finally get his wackass up outta here.

Yes, I'm mad. Let's move on.

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All because of a Mississippi born woman named Stacey Abrams who beat the shyt out of a classmate when they were debating about Reagan and his effed up policies against the poor.

If anything I learned from reading books/articles, listening to podcast and watching documentaries about her, is that when you're defeated- you can either walk away frustrated or change the game.

take a message

>All because of a Mississippi born woman named Stacey Abrams
>who beat the shyt out of a classmate when they were debating
>about Reagan and his effed up policies against the poor.
>

glad to be a Georgia resident now

it goes into detail how she got into politics and she mentions the fight w/ her classmate.

after losing her governorship to Kemp, the democratic party pushed her to run for Senate, and she said no instead wanted to focus on voter suppression/intimidation/rolls and surprisingly the democrat party told her she was wasting her time trying to convince voters, particularly black voters who dont vote consistently and or ignorant about the voting process. she said that's not fair to think of black voters in that light by a party who takes advantage of them.
honestly, the democrat party is afraid of her and what she intends to do to them in the near future.

take a message

Just added it to my watch list.

Even last night I didn't feel the sense of dread like I felt in November. Yea I complained about the ads but man the people on the ground put in WORK. Texts, phone calls, knocking on doors, post cards, fliers. I know shit won't change overnight and Warnock's seat will be up again in 2022 but I really never thought I'd see GA like this....not this soon anyway

Lawd have mercy. Im blasting Georgia by Field Mobb right now

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What a win for the Dems. The core of our party is strong and ain’t going nowhere

the late voter dumps from urban areas is a beautiful thing to watch.

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and you know its gonna piss off conservatives and get the conspiracy fever swamp going every time.

Ossoff winning or nah?

I’m nervous 😬

just a formality not to call the race at this point.

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say hi to your new senator bitches.

won this one necessarily. Despite the fact the candidate who won and dragged the other candidate across the finish line was a Black Preacher and despite the organizing work of the daughter of black preachers. SMH.

Anyway, I'd like to share some data points to shut them up and hear from people on the ground about the Black Church's role in this win.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

even though all of the work he's done he has been naming to me has been through the Black church...

just because Republicans may have called him a 'communist' doesn't mean he is a democratic socialist.

(which I think was probably right) and now with this win she isn't a moderate anymore either. LOL.


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

everything you need to know.

back-assward party.

talking about his mother...using her hands that once picked someone else's cotton, to vote for her son as Senator.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

he seems fair...
he’s disputing all that the faux king has been throwing out there lol

He's not a hero, neither is Raffensberger.

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And the Secretary of State taping that phone call helped flip the Senate. They may both be Republicans but they have integrity in my book. One could argue they both helped save Democracy.

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"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in." - James Baldwin

They ran the election so to agree with Trump would mean to admit their own incompetence. This is self-preservation, not decency.

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