23 days left until the Georgia US Senate runoffs (#4334)

      Of the 1,220,685 requested absentee ballots for this Georgia runoff election, 237,095 have been returned as of this morning. That is a 19.4% return rate. Not bad for just the first few days of this election. So overall, 16% of the electorate has requested mail in ballots, which means that The 1,220,685 ballots requested for mail in is 16% of the total registered voters. To get the total number of eligible voters in Georgia, the math goes like this; 1,220,685 divided by 16 equals 7,629,281. This is approximate since the 16% could be a bit above that or below that due to rounding rules. So with over 7.6 million eligible voters out there, one can dream but not expect anywhere near that many to vote this time around.
     Just under 5 million showed up for the presidential and that was about 1 million more than the all time high set in 2008 With President Obama. I know that the historic nature of last month's race was special but in this current climate and with nearly 5 million voting just last month it is possible that those same numbers, give or take more or less, can be achieved again. Control of the senate is at stake for the Biden/Harris ticket so getting our vote out is even more critical than anything going on in our lives at the moment. The difference is enormous between who controls the senate. We have seen that republicans will continue to stymie any repair work to our economy and cultural if they win these seats While we democrats will begin to improve the lives of all Americans when we win these two seats.
     I am an emotional guy when it comes to protecting the dignity and honor of our society. I am also a logician when it comes facts and truths. If we democrats keep hammering away at the truth of things and how we want to improve the reality on the ground we should get the interest of those swing voters who will decide these two outcomes. There are 23 days left to keep contacting those who are not consistent voters and get them on board with voting one more time in order to preserve a much better way of life by electing Warnock and Ossoff. It is critical now and all we can do is all we have left to help make sure that there is nothing left for us to do but to lay down at the end from the exhaustion of it all.