12 days left until the Georgia US Senate runoffs (#4345)

      The last poll I saw had both our democratic candidates ahead in their races. Yet as we know from polling it is inaccurate to some degree. But if I had my druthers I would rather be ahead in polling than to be behind in polling. So take that for a little bit of good news anyway. Nearly 1.9 million have already early voted as of yesterday so it is still looking like the general election mostly as to how early voting is going. 12 days now left until we get to the decisive day where every eyeball with a brain behind it will be watching the numbers coming from Georgia. It is welcoming to me that a quirk in the primary process that until lately has favored republicans has come back to bite them.
     Runoff elections should not be allowed anywhere as the majority vote getter should be voted in whether they reach a 50% threshold or not. Yet the South has mostly kept the 50% threshold out of some tradition that originally secured for them white leadership. The runoff paradigm along with the electoral college needs to be laid to rest on the discarded pile of antiquity. One vote one voice should always be the norm when it comes to elections. Democracy, as a simple expression, demands it. No shenanigans should be inserted into our elections. Yet ranked choice is becoming popular as a way to keep the 50% threshold alive and that should not continue either.
     The simplest form of democracy should never have to give way to a complicated version when the simple formula is based upon one vote one voice. For the moment I am thankful for the runoff system but going forward it should be dispensed forthwith. The will of our voters whether it be in state races or national races, should always come first without a handicap like the electoral college or runoff election to be manipulated and abused. We are an egalitarian society in theory and until we put it into practice it will always be just a theory. The truth of things are reality, not the idea of them. I hope we democrats keep doing well in these two runoff elections and if they get us to a majority then, under these rules, we will take it.