Monday, January 4, 2021

1 day left until the Georgia US Senate runoffs (#4356)

      The last ditch efforts by both democratic and republican campaigns will hit hard and heavy today with all the big guns of both parties campaigning in Georgia for these two senate seats. However the republican big guns are looking mighty rusty with all the turmoil being created by trump. Which is fine by we democrats if republicans want to show Georgia just how despicable they are in this crucial moment. My best guess is that the republican turnout will be less than the general election turnout because of the divisiveness over trump's false claims of Georgia state voter fraud. When the head of the party in the person of trump tells his supporters that the election was rigged against him, illegal, and invalid one can expect some republicans not to vote in this runoff election.
     For our part most all the messaging coming out of the democratic campaigns have been positive and straightforward. While exposing the falsities of the claims from the republican candidates. The republican candidates on the other hand have been treading lightly about their own policies while making wild accusations about our democrats. In a world where logic and common sense were the deciding factors in choosing the best candidates, we democrats would be routing the republicans. However this is not that paradigm. What we are facing is an electorate that still votes republican despite the harm or good to society on whole. Where prejudices and biases are more prevalent in how one votes as a rule not an exception.
     Yet we democrats were able to make inroads in Georgia just this past November enough to actually win the popular vote for our presidential candidate. But this is a runoff election where the enthusiasm to vote is not as high as it was last month. Even though it is as crucial a state election that has been held in my 65 years on the planet. But I don't get to vote only Georgians do. So we will see if our recent gains in Georgia can sustain just one more election that will decide the fate of the policies going forward over the next 2 years. Today is the last day before election day tomorrow and what we hope outside Georgia is for all those democratic Georgians who haven't yet to get to the polls and get their vote counted.

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