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If current results hold…

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If current results hold…

  1. Now that Warnock and Ossoff have won, will the GOP majority get rid of runoffs?
  2. Daniel Blackman, you did your absolute best to elevate the PSC to Democrats’ attention, and I really need you to stay in this fight as the DPG’s go-to organizer for future PSC races. You did an amazing job, and you’ve set the template for the PSC District 2 race next year. But please ask for a recount.
  3. We now live in the era of mixed statewide results, but we’ve shown that Democrats can win a majority statewide, and not just a plurality like Biden won in November. No looking back.
  4. I want Doug Jones for Attorney-General. Confirmation hearings for Biden’s cabinet this year should be fun to watch.
  5. I’m wondering if the VP-elect plans to have an office in the Senate because she’ll be tiebreaking a LOT
  6. Schumer becomes majority leader and the highest-ranking Jewish American in history, but Joe Manchin succeeds Robert Byrd to become the most powerful person in the Senate and secure West Virginia’s role in American politics once again.
  7. Warnock becomes the second Black Senator from the ex-Confederate South, 11th nationally, and one of three in the new Senate alongside Tim Scott of SC and Cory Booker of New Jersey (not including VP Harris). Ossoff becomes one of the youngest Senators and Han Solo cosplayers in U.S. history. He also becomes the fourth Jewish senator from the South, the first Southern Jewish Senator since Benjamin Jonas of Louisiana (served 1879-1885), and the first Jewish member of Congress from the non-Florida Deep South since Ben Erdreich of Alabama (served 1983-1993).
  8. Get used to this: Chairman Sanders (Budget Committee).
  9. The dam on those 500 bills will now break.
  10. $2000 checks y’all!
  11. I pay great tribute to the work of Laura Ratcliff Walker and Tonza Sheree Thomas for leading our Muscogee County Democratic Committee to overperforming in Muscogee County, and to Linda Parker for fighting for us on the Muscogee County Board of Elections against Alton Russell’s attempt to screw newly-registered voters. You are the MVPs here in Columbus.
  12. EDIT: Thanks to the county committees and candidates who commissioned me for websites this past year. Thanks to Cliff Albright and Black Voters Matter for hiring me earlier last year, and thanks to Jeremiah Chapman and Woke Vote for hiring me for the runoff. I began and ended this election season working for Black voter turnout, and that’s huge for me.

Script Idea for Ossoff/Warnock

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Please make this a script idea for a joint #OssoffWarnock ad:

Ossoff and Warnock walk along forked paths in a park which converges to a point.
Ossoff: “We believe the American people deserve more money from federal COVID relief.”
Warnock: “But Senate Republicans think that only $600 are good enough for you, even when Donald Trump and Joe Biden say it ain’t!”
Ossoff knocks over standee of Perdue: “David Perdue says no to $2000”
Warnock knocks over standee of Loeffler: “Kelly Loeffler ALSO says no to $2000”
Ossoff and Warnock stop at the fork.
Ossoff: “You know who will say yes to $2000?”
Ossoff/Warnock fist bump each other, saying together: “We will!”
Warnock: “We will vote for it”
Harris: “I will break the tie”
Schumer and Pelosi together: “We will pass it”
Biden: “And I will sign it”
Ossoff: “But none of this happens unless you vote to send us to the Senate by January 5th”
Warnock: “Vote for Ossoff and Warnock in the runoff so we can-“
Biden: “Run”
Harris: “You”
Schumer/Pelosi: “Your”
Ossoff/Warnock: “Money!”
Ossoff: “I’m Jon Ossoff”
Warnock: “I’m Raphael Warnock”
Ossoff/Warnock: “And we approve this message”

Runoff Elections in Georgia are Racist

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Think about it:

  1. the county unit system, combined with the white primary until 1945, was racist and biased against urban voters.
  2. when the county unit system was struck down in 1963, the beneficiaries of the county unit system in the General Assembly voted to switch to runoff voting for future elections in order to prevent “Negroes” from “bloc voting” by allowing white voters to vote as a “bloc” in the second round.
  3. when Wyche Fowler was defeated in a runoff by Paul Coverdell in 1992, the Democrats in the General Assembly voted to switch to plurality voting, only triggering a runoff if the winning candidate received 45% in the first round. The rural voters continued to bleed to the GOP, who restored the runoff requirement when they took the General Assembly in 2005.
  4. the number of runoffs statewide has increased as the two parties have realigned and the Atlanta ring has widened, from one each in 2006 (PSC) and 2008 (Senate) to two in 2018 (SoS and PSC) to three in 2020 (two Senate, 1 PSC).

So how many December-January runoffs are we going to have in 2022? And how are we supposed to excuse the baldly-racist justification of the runoff system?