(#5048) Special election for Senate in Georgia

      Over the past weekend Georgia voters began voting for their next Senator in this special runoff election. Somewhere near 200 thousand voters have cast their early vote runoff election ballots already. Nearly 4 million voters voted earlier this month in the general election but I don't expect that total to be reached in this special election. There are about 7 million eligible voters in Georgia. It would be nice if every state would vote at or above the 90% threshold but our nation has a problem prioritizing voting for too many not convincing reasons. However, the likelihood of maybe 3.5 million voting here in this special election is to me expected.
     The election is on December 6th of next month so there is still plenty of time for voters to surprise us with a heavy turnout in the early voting period. However as I understand it, this week including Monday through Friday, will be available for early voting. There will be no voting after that until the election day of December 6th. So getting the early vote out this week will be the most crucial strategy for democrats if we want to keep our Senator Warnock in office. There is one wildcard here and that is the appeal of the republican candidate. Or should I say the lack of appeal. Other republicans overall in the just completed general midterm election drew far more votes than this senatorial republican candidate.
     Which to me makes it logical that fewer republicans will turn out to vote for a person they didn't vote for 3 weeks ago. With the senate majority already decided another reason not to vote for the republican base is a factor. So not only will there be fewer republican voters showing up to vote they are not motivated to do so with no reward of a majority in the senate. For we democrats the real impetus to vote is that we would negate one of the 2 senate democrats who have been obstacles at times to the Biden agenda. I would expect that the more motivated to vote would be democrats since we have an honorable candidate and the opposing candidate cannot be seen as such.