President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are slated to return to Georgia days before before the state’s Senate runoffs on January 5 to make the final push for Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, according to the Biden transition team.
Biden and Harris’ second round of visits
May not win but no one can say they aren’t trying.
Meanwhile, also in Georgia:
This is the perfect time and the perfect argument:
Whether or not you would normally vote for Perdue and Loeffler, as long as the Republicans are in the majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell will block relief to the middle class. The only way to turn that around is to elect Ossoff and Warnock. If they don’t win, McConnell will block everything Biden will try to do to help middle class Georgians.
And we’ll see.
Loeffler and Perdue were against $2000 payments, but now they trip over themselves to support anything the President says, no matter how crazy.
Biden and Harris should emphasize that they will encourage differing opinions and will therefore be more honest with Americans than the GOP has been.
All right, people, let’s stay safe out there, and do it to them before they do it to you.
Hopefully the good people of GA will come through for us.
It really is that simple. You want good governance and relief? Vote for Ossoff and Warnock. You want gridlock and more suffering? Vote for Perdue and Loeffler.
Corresponds with this data analysis from the November based on the (largely) final counted data plus cross referencing between (SUNY Albany PoliSci Prof author) which highlights
(1) Women
(2) Suburbs (including crucial tippin of the waivering centrist voters, not in huge numbers but that floating 3-5% that flips the result)
(3) Minorities of which of course crucially black Americans and particularly black women
(4) Educated (aligning with suburbs)
A very cenrist set of data spot on to Biden-Harris strengths.
(and last item take away, the supposed ethusiasm gap:)
5. The Real Enthusiasm Gap
Fifth, after all the talk during the campaign about how Trump’s supporters were more enthusiastic than Biden’s, we can now see in the data that there was an enthusiasm gap at the core of this election—but that it helped Biden, not Trump. In the AP VoteCast survey, 46 percent of voters rated President Trump favorably, while 53 percent rated him unfavorably. Therefore, it should not really surprise anyone that the popular vote now stands at 51.3 percent for Biden and 46.8 percent for Trump. Biden’s achievement was to sponge up the votes of nearly the entire range of those who opposed Trump. Among the 46 percent of voters who reported in the AP VoteCast survey that they “disapprove strongly” of President Trump, Biden won 97-1. On the flip side, meanwhile, the voters who said they “approve strongly” of Trump, who voted for him by 98-2, amounted to a much smaller 31 percent of the electorate.
In other words, the notion that Trump’s base was more passionate about supporting him than was Biden’s is not reflected in the data. Instead the real enthusiasm gap was that 15 percent more of the electorate strongly disapproved of Trump than was passionately in his corner:
This doubtless fits to a T the Georgia, Atlanta driven, electorate that needs to be won
In terms of ideology, this year’s electorate remained center-right, if the exit-polling data is correct. The Edison survey found that 24 percent of the voters self-described as liberal (favoring Biden by 89-10), 38 percent moderate (going for Biden by 64-34), and 38 percent conservative (favoring Trump 85-14). Despite recent polls suggesting the liberal share of the electorate was rising above 25 percent while the conservative share was drifting down from the 40 percent level (which held steady from 1966-2006) toward 35 percent, in fact the conservative share held at 38 percent.
@khyber900 has some good data on the GA elections on another thread:
Under Election Pressure, Loeffler And Perdue Back Trump and Dems’ Push Fo
Yes, it’s an uphill fight and it’s the South, but it speaks volumes anyway that there is a non-delusional if not super strong chance.
And Biden&Harris are showing discipline and focus, unlike Trump wildly firing away at everyone and everything.
Great Post.
In other WTF news of the day…
Big whoop, 18 percent. That’s how he won the Republican nomination - run his name against a dozen others and let the MAGATs crawl out of the woodwork to support him.
From the article:
“No other public figure besides Trump received more than 2 percent of Republicans’ votes.”
Yawn…
Not so much WTF as Cult of Personality
He’ll always have a group of unpersuadable thralls.
They still cling to he’s a disruptor and chaos agent as if those were good things.
These are people who lives are so miserable and pathetic they will support someone that is capable of making others miserable, particularly people that they are jealous of or hate because of their race. They will put up with damage inflicted on them by their hero because it means the people they hate are also being damaged. I read a few years ago that some psychologists think that 50% of members of modern societies are mentally ill. I put it off as them justifying their profession but I now think they were correct.
If BLOTUS were to spend the next three weeks boasting about this “most admired” business–and doing JUST THAT and nothing else–that would be a good trade-off.
Ossoff did well here. Doocy tried to throw him off-balance by questioning him on live Fox News. Oops.
Well Done
The whole problem is shown right here. When a decent, sincere human being like Jon is actually given a chance to speak to voters directly, and not distorted through some right-wing filtered talking head media bile, there is just no contest, none. Not just Fox, MSM is quite complicit and even criminal in allowing the hatespeak and the misinformation and other shit to continue in-between.