(#5057) Raphael Warnock wins Georgia Senate special election

     As of this writing the Senate race in Georgia has gone to Raphael Warnock. The upside down of this race going to democrats is a sweet victory for those of us who want sanity in our political process. I say upside down because the state held offices in Georgia were not close for the republicans who won them. Which makes me wonder how this democratic victory was achieved. Simply put the republican candidate did not inspire the same level of commitment from the republicans in Georgia. Because when republicans in Georgia come out to vote they are still the majority block.
     But what I can glean from this dynamic is that although republicans did well enough to hold their state offices in the 2022 midterm election, they were not inspired enough to win this national race. Their national candidate had been less than stellar which opened the door for democrats, together with independents, to win this race. I think what is happening is that although Georgia is still more red than blue it is shading less so. In fact I expect by either the next cycle or the one just after that Georgia will begin showing its hue closer to blue than red. There were many blue voters in red counties that defied expectations and buttressed Senator Warnock's vote tally in the larger cities.
     To me the republican party is declining and although they won the state offices in Georgia by somewhat comfortable margins they are not inspiring new voters to their cause. The last of the die hard republican voters are beginning to becoming outnumbered by new younger voters who are more in tune with democratic policies than the division that republicans are narrating. For me this is the continuation of the blue wave that I have been sensing since the 2018 midterm. This last race of the 2022 election cycle has gone to democrats and it was accomplished in a still red state. Next years races in New Jersey and Virginia will go a long way toward exposing the momentum of our blue wave continuation heading into the 2024 presidential election.