752,000 Georgians did not vote in the Georgia Senate runoffs

[RussBLib]

Mostly Republicans. I had not heard this until I stumbled across this article in HuffPo. And 228,000 people (likely Dems) who did not vote in the general election voted in the runoffs, putting Ossoff and Warnock over the top, barely. Thank you, T****! So SOME Republicans have the ability to be repulsed by T****. That's a little encouraging.

Title: If You Like All The New Progressive Federal Judges, Thank Trump For Sabotaging Georgia
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WASHINGTON ― If you like all the progressive judges that President Joe Biden has put on the federal bench since taking office, you can thank the one person without whom it could never have happened: Donald Trump.

The former president’s sabotage of two Georgia Senate runoffs in early January with his endless lies about “massive fraud” having cost him reelection almost certainly cost the two Republican incumbents their seats, giving Democrats control of the chamber and the ability to push through judicial nominations without a single GOP vote.

“Trump handed it to them,” said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia who studies federal judicial appointments, adding that Biden’s record-tying string of 40 district and appellate court judges in his first year would have been impossible in a Republican-controlled Senate. “They just wouldn’t have had the votes. I don’t know what they would have done.”

According to an analysis by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 752,000 Georgians who cast ballots on Nov. 3, 2020, failed to do so on Jan. 5, 2021, with a disproportionate number of those no-shows coming from Republican strongholds, particularly the two areas of the state where Trump had held rallies. Meanwhile, 228,000 residents who had not voted in the general election did so in the runoff, most of whom were from Black and other minority communities, and nearly half of whom were younger than 35. Warnock and Ossoff both come in second in their November 2020 races. Warnock won his runoff by 93,000 votes, and Ossoff won by 55,000.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-joe-biden-progressive-judges-georgia-senate-races_n_61cb8fe6e4b0d637ae9137b9?ncid=NEWSSTAND0001

[brooklynite]

1. IOW Democrats didn't win the Senate; Trump won it for them.....

We only won two Senate seats outright (AZ and CO); both with mainstream Democrats.

[The Magistrate]

6. Mainstream, Sir? Sinema?

[jimfields33]

8. AZ was Senator Kelley

[The Magistrate]

10. Thank You, Sir

I had forgotten when she appeared.

[mcar]

21. Huh?

Democrats came out to vote and won the GA senate seats, peoples' reasons for voting or not voting notwithstanding.

[brooklynite]

22. On election day (Nov 3) MORE votes were cast for the Republican Senate candidates...

...than for the Democratic candidates. More votes were cast for Biden (who won a majority) than for the Democratic Senate candidates. In the two months leading up to the January runoffs, Trump ranted about how rigged the voting in Georgia was, which convinced some Republicans not to bother.

[dawg]

2. We wanted it more and we showed up.

We have enough Democrats to carry a statewide race in this state any time that happens.

[Scrivener7]

3. Wow! That is an amazing number. We should do a thousand email campaigns to the reddest areas

where we tell them TFG wants them to boycott voting.

[SYFROYH]

4. I don't think the nonvoting GOPers were repulsed by Trump...

...I think they believed the election was rigged and their vote didn't matter.

Lyn Wood, Trumper weirdo extraordinaire, was actively pushing Republicans to not vote.

But maybe some were repulsed.

[brooklynite]

15. Precisely...because Trump publicly claimed the election was rigged in the lead-up to the runoff.

[Progressive Jones]

19. Whatever It Takes. nt

[Casady1]

5. As a Georgian we have outworked

republicans since 2018. Stacy made people believe. Republicans probably had a normal number of people not vote in a runoff. Dem's were motivated and we will be motivated again in 2022.

[RussBLib]

7. yes, please

so much is at stake

thank you for caring!!!

[gratuitous]

9. I think this is correct

I don't credit the former guy for the years of work Stacy Abrams put in.

[RussBLib]

11. good point

I wish we had someone like Stacy here in Texas. Somehow we have to shake off this yoke the GOP has placed around our necks. We've been close in several elections, just not enough to get over the hump. Should we start screaming "voter fraud" at the GOP? These has been SOME evidence of it.

[Scrivener7]

13. You guys have done the impossible, and you deserve all credit for that. But if

TFG is adding to that by keeping republiQans home, I'm not sorry to hear it.

[Politicub]

12. This analysis is offensive.

We worked our asses off to get out the vote. Trump has nothing to do with Democratic success in the state.

These victories were hard won and enough credit hasn’t been given to Stacey Abrams’ strategic approach, either.

[brooklynite]

26. It doesn't matter how hard you worked; the results are the results.

Biden won a majority on November 3. Ossoff and Warnock did not.

[Grins]

14. How did Warnock get so many more votes than Ossoff?

38,000 more. I would have thought their tallies would be much closer.

Anyone?

[Celerity]

16. Perdue was more popular than Kelly Loeffler, plus there was likely some anti-Semitism involved

[Mr.Bill]

20. I also think that misogyny will often win out over racism.

Some white men will vote for a black man but not any woman.

Note that we have had a black president, but not a woman president. Also note that this country let black men vote before they let any women vote.

[Elessar Zappa]

23. Most black men couldn't vote until the 60s.

They technically had the right but were prevented from exercising it.

[Mr.Bill]

24. The point is, black men voted before women.

Period.

[Elessar Zappa]

25. Most women could vote before most black men could.

Period.

[Mr.Bill]

27. Only if you think the Jim Crow deep south was the entire country.

Black men were elected to Congress after the Civil War.

[former9thward]

28. The deep south is where Black men were elected to Congress after the Civil war

Not from the north.

[Mr.Bill]

29. Correct. Before the Jim Crow era.

The point is those black men got elected to Congress because black men were voting. Long before any women were voting, which was my original premise.

I don't expect to change your mind. Have a good evening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

[DFW]

17. I think it was a perfect storm that, for once, blew in our direction

I don't think it was any one factor that put Warnock and Ossoff in office. Trump? Certainly. The fact that the Georgia Democrats worked their asses off to make this happen was definitely a big factor, but this was only conceivable due to people like Stacey Abrams who had been exhorting the Georgia Democrats since 2018 that this was indeed possible. Warnock certainly had a greater constituency to draw from, but it didn't end up giving him a massive edge.

Frankly, I think one biggest thing that saved both of them is the fact that their election was held weeks AFTER Trump not only lost hugely, but made a royal class ass out of himself on a daily basis after he did, and did so for TWO MONTHS. The whole country was watching, too. Had the Georgia Senate races been held in November with all the rest of them, Ossoff and Warnock would have both been buried. My take is that it was the timing, more than anything else, that gave us our narrow Senate "majority."

[RussBLib]

18. nice tie up

something for everyone

well done!