16,000

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It’s knife-edge, but for now…Warnock won and Ossoff is claiming the win.

Democrat Jon Ossoff — who as of 9 a.m. ET Wednesday leads Republican David Perdue by about 16,000 votes in the Georgia runoff that could give Democrats control of the U.S. Senate — claimed victory Wednesday. The Associated Press, which NPR relies on for its results, has not yet called the contest.

Perdue hasn’t conceded.

Tentative celebrations.

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6 responses to “16,000”

  1. Mike B Avatar
    Mike B

    Remarkable times. US set new record for deaths yesterday, 3775. Right wing fruitcakes stew in the streets of DC. Republican party imploding. Just remarkable.

  2. iknklast Avatar
    iknklast

    So I can feel pretty good about my donations; they helped. I wasn’t able to give enough to lift Jamie Harrison to the win over Lindsay Graham, but if my miniscule donations helped, I’m pleased.

  3. Harald Hanche-Olsen Avatar
    Harald Hanche-Olsen

    It’s interesting to note that a black man got elected in Georgia, under a system designed to stop that from happening. That’s right: runoff voting was introduced in Georgia to ensure that black people won’t be elected:

    However, by adopting runoff voting, even if white voters split their vote in the first round and an African American somehow made it to the second round, white voters – from both parties – would still have a chance to unite behind the white candidate to ensure victory. Groover himself advertised his runoff voting bill as being designed to “prevent the Negro bloc vote from controlling the elections.”

    Hat tip: My wife.

  4. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    This shit is what the Voting Rights Act was intended to do away with, and did do away with, until the Supreme Court gutted it in the Shelby ruling. It’s so enraging.

  5. Colin Day Avatar
    Colin Day

    Except that Warnock had a plurality in the first round (although other candidates might not have run). The runoff appears to have cost Perdue a Senate seat.

    Where is that Planck-length violin?

  6. iknklast Avatar
    iknklast

    The runoff appears to have cost Perdue a Senate seat.

    Yeah, but if you look at the writings of the men who created the constitution, it appears the electoral college was designed to keep unqualified idiots from winning.

    Some of these people needed their crystal balls repaired.

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