The elimination of the Libertarian candidate (who got around 2%, last I looked) will help Hersch.
Only if the Libertarians bother to show up and vote in the runoff instead of staying home.
Maybe, maybe not. Libertarian voters aren’t the laissez-faire activists some people think they are. Often they’re just people who don’t want to vote for either candidate.
Let’s hope so.
Unless the Turtle funds the Dim to keep the RINOs in the minority.
Why do you think the Libertarian votes will got Walker?
I'm not so sure of that. I think the abortion issue is the cause of much of last night's red fizzle, based primarily on what I saw posted on FB for months by my old high school & college female friends (I'm in my mid-50s). Even some that are fairly conservative in other areas were one-issue voters this time. And that issue was abortion access.
I suspect that's why Kemp won his race pretty handily, while Walker did not. I think many semi-conservative women were okay with Kemp but couldn't bring themselves to risk a Republican Senate that would pass a national ban on abortion. But they also disliked Warnock - so they chose the Libertarian as the lesser of 3 evils. They'll sit out the runoff, so their Libertarian votes won't go to Walker. Obviously that doesn't account for all the Libertarian votes, but my hunch is that it accounts for a fair chunk of them.
Key line to crossing the goal line.
It didn't help Warnock or Ossoff in the last runoff in 2020.
Every single Republican who ran statewide had an easy win yesterday, except Walker. He won’t have Kemp’s coattails and the specter of a governor Stacy Abrams bringing Republicans out to vote. Democrats voters will be enthusiastic and legion.
GA Republicans sat at home in 2020’s runoffs and I expect they may do the same for this one.
Democrats have armies of activists mobilized to get people to vote.
Every time a libertarian vote for a libertarian because I don’t like the Republican it always helps the Democrats.