26 days left until the Georgia US Senate runoffs (#4331)

      Over 111 thousand voters have mailed back their runoff election ballots as of this morning. Early in person voting begins on December 14th and will continue until the last Friday before the actual election date of January 5, 2021. In the just concluded general election Georgia voters mailed in 1,320,154 mail in ballots. We will get some idea as the mail in ballots for this runoff election continues to rise if it is on par with the general election just finished. In person early votes totaled 2,694,763 in the just completed general election so we will also get to see how that stacks up with this runoff. If the numbers are comparable then this could be a democratic victory. If the numbers are much less then republicans have the advantage.
     Here is the link I follow to get the stats, https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/GA_RO.html?fbclid=IwAR2v1PmdcunTCfvmVv02f9aVi72mhcGuq15wRIXft-0UIakQPIcItyFoJIM. There were nearly 1 million Georgians who decided to wait until the election date to in person vote so that brings the total to about 5 million who showed up at the polls to vote in the just completed general election. If we democrats are going to have similar success in electing these 2 democratic senate candidates as we did in electing Joe Biden then we need similar if not more turnout than the general election turnout. Most have made up their minds already so it is all about getting folks to vote. With nearly 7 million eligible voters in Georgia getting 6 million of them or more to vote would be awesome!
     All eyes are on Georgia so maybe those who didn't vote in the general election will be inclined to do so this time around. With as much interest as is being displayed all over Georgia because of the national importance one would think it would be on every voters mind to participate. All the grassroots efforts there by so many civil rights groups should help get most of the democratic base out to vote. As to the republican base it is in a bit of disarray but should never be counted out as they are consistent in their voting. This election is going to be a wild one in my estimation as the twists and turns of obstruction and anger are incalculable. One must work for and hope that the arc of the moral universe will bend toward justice in this election.