Biden still has a cold, but he didn’t have nearly as many throat clearings/coughs in this speech as compared to yesterday’s address, and it was outdoors/cold. He’ll be fine. He looks good and delivered his speech with some power.
On substance, his messaging was excellent. He described both Senate candidates well and told the voters what they’ll get if they vote Dem and what they won’t get if Mitch keeps power. He blasted the GOP and Loeffler/Perdue for joining up with the TX law suit which would’ve disenfranchised GA’s voters.
What Joe has managed to do with the EC win is to translate a sense of determination, urgency and anger among Dems for the GOP’s attempted coup by court. Instead of just blaming Trump, Biden has extended the critique to the GOP itself, which will definitely spike turnout on the Dem side.
Both GA seats are winnable for the Dems. I’m going through the 2020 v 2018 data, and what’s quite surprising to me so far is that Biden’s margins and Abrams’ margins in the blue areas of GA in terms of percentage are very close. Biden was 1.5% better in the metro ATL area, 0.4% better in the blue counties outside Metro ATL (Savannah, Black Belt, Augusta), but ran worse than Abrams in Red GA (so far…still have a batch of counties to go through) and won the state. Metro ATL has that kind of an impact where it resisted a fairly sizable late Trump surge and closed a 50k gap from the 2018 Gov race.
What this also suggests is that the Dem margins in these counties are pretty stable given that they’re virtually identical in a mid-term election vs the biggest turnout in GA history in the November general election. These are not one-hit wonder or fluke situations. Purple GA is here to stay. If the GA Dems are as pumped as they appear to be at the moment, the GOP will need that Trumper vote to offset it.
All Americans, Republicans and Democrats, Libertarian and Green, should be free to spend their money as they please. They should also be free to be as stupid and ignorant as they want to be. As Karl Popper said “… our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite .””
Me too. If it turns out to be something else, it could get dicey at this stage in the game:
Once Biden is selected by the electoral college, he officially becomes the president-elect. If he were to die between the electoral college vote but before the early January congressional certification, members of congress have an opportunity to object to the electoral results in any state and, if both chambers agree, to switch that state’s votes to the opposing candidate. It’s pretty hard to imagine Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House speaker, agreeing to hand a state to Trump in any conceivable circumstance.
After Congressional certification and before inauguration day, the 20th amendment would kick in. It provides that “if, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the president, the president elect shall have died, the vice president elect shall become president.”
I’d go 50/50 between Fair Fight and The New Georgia Project. Fair Fight deals with voter suppression and The New Georgia Project registers new voters. Both were started by Stacey
Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind. I wish Ohio had someone with her spunk on the bench. I just flashed back to the Mary Tyler Moore show… I suddenly feel old.
What I feel about GOP Georgia voters is not what I wish to get into at this particular time… other than to lament the racial mores which induce circular firing squad voting for Republicans.
However, it is white Dems (and to some extent, Independents) who have it in their hands to set us on the road to recovery.
The climate crisis alone should be enough to sway white Dems (on the assumption that white Dems also live on Planet Earth). Add to this about 20 more survival-inducing policies which will come about (benefiting all people) makes it imperative for them to vote for the Ossoff/Warnock tandem.
"According to court documents, there were no ballots in the truck. The truck was filled with air conditioning parts and tools.
Aguirre allegedly never told police that he had been paid a total of $266,400 by the Houston-based Liberty Center for God and Country, with $211,400 of that amount being deposited into his account the day after the incident."
This is fun to see. Perdue and Loeffler are (still) so busy attacking Raffensperger that they don’t even know their campaigns have the very information they accuse him of withholding. Their own ineptitude may contribute as much to their possible loss as the clear superiority of Ossoff and Warnock as candidates:
