Georgia Settles The Final Senate Race Of The Midterms

December 6, 2022
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December 6, 2022

Once again, all eyes are on Georgia as Peach State voters choose between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Herschel Walker to represent them in the Senate.

Democrats have already won the effective Senate majority thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-break vote, but the extra seat would grease the gears: they’d get a majority on all Senate committees, decrease the leverage of Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and have more of a buffer if up to two members got sick or had to be absent during a vote.

It would also put them a senator up heading into a grisly 2024 Senate map, where they’ll be defending seats in the likes of West Virginia and Montana, while nearly all of the Republican incumbents will be competing on very friendly terrain.

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Once again, all eyes are on Georgia as Peach State voters choose between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Herschel Walker to represent them in the Senate.

Democrats have already won the effective Senate majority thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-break vote, but the extra seat would grease the gears: they’d get a majority on all Senate committees, decrease the leverage of Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and have more of a buffer if up to two members got sick or had to be absent during a vote.

It would also put them a senator up heading into a grisly 2024 Senate map, where they’ll be defending seats in the likes of West Virginia and Montana, while nearly all of the Republican incumbents will be competing on very friendly terrain.

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  1. First! :joy_cat:

    This will be Warnock’s 4 election in two years to hold this seat.

    Damn he’s good.

  2. Before third

    Yes, he is.

    There was an individual who did some recon earlier today with some pleasant news. I glimpsed it once and went elsewhere.

    (1) I hope it remained okay
    (2) for real

  3. That includes a Trafalgar poll, a notoriously GOP-friendly outfit, that has Warnock up four in a survey conducted from December 3-5.

    The GOP sock-puppet polling houses (sock-pollers?) always do this. Spew out a wave of gop-slanted polls to create the victory narrative, then quietly do a legit paint-the-tape poll just before the election so they don’t look like an outlier.

  4. “…the Georgia runoff…”

    Isn’t that what NASCAR fans get about an hour after visiting the Pork Rindz stand?

  5. C’mon team Warnock!

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