Posted on 12/24/2020 2:25:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
ATLANTA - In the first week of early voting for Georgia’s Senate runoff election, Casie Yoder parked at a polling location in Cobb County and loaded miniature hand sanitizer bottles, knitted hats, hand warmers and face masks into a collapsible wagon cart.
Her goal: to help voters stay in line in frigid temperatures and cast their ballots in a pair of high-stakes runoff contests that will determine which political party controls the Senate next year. The runoffs will also test whether Democrats can again pull together the diverse coalition that propelled President-elect Joe Biden to victory in Georgia in November and cemented the state’s status as a political battleground.
“We’ve never had an election happen like this in December,” said Yoder, the Georgia state captain for the Frontline, a nonpartisan electoral justice project of the Movement for Black Lives and other partner organizations.
For Democrats to control the Senate, Georgia’s Black communities, as well as the state’s smaller Hispanic and Asian communities, likely need to vote in the Jan. 5 runoff election by history-making margins.
There are signs that turnout in Georgia could indeed be high in the runoffs. Through Wednesday, early voting data released by the office of Georgia’s secretary of state show nearly 1.9 million voters have already cast in-person or mail-in ballots since voting opened last week. That’s almost half of the total early votes cast in the November general election, with less than two weeks left before the Senate runoff concludes.
Roughly 75,000 people in Georgia have also registered to vote ahead of the runoff, with less than half of those self-identifying as white.
“The old way of just thinking that white voters will determine statewide elections in Deep South states is rapidly fading,” said Ben Jealous, president of People For the American Way, a progressive advocacy organization that encourages civic participation.
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Turnout test? Sh*t, if they can steal a national Presidential election, they got this in the bag! /s
Dems have no need to worry. It’s not who votes that counts. It’s who counts the votes that counts.
Easy peasy.
This AP article is junk. It’s just the race crap that is so typical of American media. Feels like the majority of its paragraphs are “race, race, race.”
The dems are heartless. If they really cared about their voters, they would tell them to stay warm at home and just let the software do its thing.
Polling reporter Emily Swanson in Washington contributed to this report. Morrison is a member of AP’s Race and Ethnicity team.
They’re organized and aggressive. I wish we were the same.
I’m visiting in North Georgia, where I saw almost nothing but Trump signs before the election, but now I’m seeing almost only Ossof signs. And the area is virtually entirely white, so it’s not a race thing.
It’s possible that there’s a little fear involved, since the Dems are so aggressive, and a lot of people from Atlanta come into the area for vacation stays. It’s also possible that the signs are being put up by vacation residents at their vacation residences even though the residents themselves are back in Atlanta (or other states) at the moment.
I don’t know, but it’s not a good sign.
The people counting the votes in Atlanta will fix the turnout problem
Isn’t it odd how Democrats usually end up on the Working Families line, yet their policies never seem to get families working?
The Hispanics, black, whatever.. need to be told what they are voting for if they vote dem..
the year obama won the first time, lines all over zGa were LONG.. they didnt get anything from him..
people who dont know what they are doing should not vote.
and the woman giving out hats with a message inside... that isn’t legal to do that standing in line to cast a vote.
The Dem turnout workers are going door to door—STEALING delivery packages! Meanwhile, planners are looking at ways they can steal the runoff vote.
Can someone at least give me a courtesy flush!
I live in a heavily Democratic area of Georgia ( Augusta). We have had three people on separate occasions for Perdue and Loeffler, NONE for Warnock or Ossoff. Every day I get two to four items in the mail for Loeffler and Perdue, none for Warnock or Ossoff. I get an occasional text for Warnock and Ossoff. That is it. Loeffler and Perdue are slamming the Airways with ads, about two to one for Loeffler and Perdue over Ossoff Warnock. The military in Augusta, Columbus, Warner Robbins, Fort Stewart etc are very pro America, Loeffler is running ads where Warnock is repeatedly saying G-d Damn America. No guaranties but the landscape doesn’t look bad. I am not overly confident but Perdue and Loeffler have been good to their constituents and are running effective campaigns.
Lol.
Do they mean the diverse coalition of felons and cheats who were willing to stash, hide, burn, fake, and fabricate votes?
I wonder what is the criminal strategy of the moment, given the intense scrutiny that will be on this particular election.
if they are as disappointed in kemp as I am,
that seat was doug collins.. kemp would not do it he gave it to a wealthy unknown.. yes she is out there but the kemp snub did not help. collins was popular here ..
Think about it: Mitch is NOT THE LEAST BIT WORRIED about the GA run-off. I think he has made a deal with the Dems, namely, that he would acknowledge Biden as president-elect after the first elector vote and urge Trump to concede while bullying republican senators not to object to the electors voting on Jan 6th. If he does this then Loeffler will be allowed to win, allowing Mitch to remain Majority Leader.
If the Dems go back on their word, well, the run-off is Jan. 5th, and so Mitch can let the senators raise their objections and force a vote for president in the House on Jan 6th, where Trump would win if the votes are counted 1 per state.
Why do I think Loeffler would be the one allowed to win? Because Sidney Powell said Perdue won his contest, but the Dominion algorithm stole it from him, while Loeffler actually lost to Collins, who got more than 50%, so there should not be a run-off, except for the Dominion cheat. Remember also that Loeffler was appointed by Kemp and is his special choice.
Somebody shouts that some white bigot is beating up a black vote counter, and there will be chaos. All poll watchers will be asked to be cleared out of the premise and not allowed to enter again. Vote counting continues without them present.
“Yes we can”!? They’re back to that old BS
Perdue should have this locked up. He’s the incumbent. And he lost the primary by .03. Hopefully he pulls it off.
These GA Senate races won’t matter once Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio and the rest of the Bush League Republicans give the Democrats a permanent majority with amnesty for illegal aliens.
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