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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Georgia

 Polls (I know) say it's a toss-up, and that certainly tracks with what happened in November. Ultimately, it will be about turnout. Early voting looks good for Ossoff and Warnock, so we will have to see what same-day voting looks like. 

Basically, my gut says one of two things will happen.

1) Trump is no longer on the ballot, Loeffler and Perdue are empty suits. Democratic inroads with reliable voters in the suburbs of Atlanta provide the margins of victory.

2) Republicans, convinced by Trump that elections are fraudulent, flood the polls to "stop the steal." Gain the suburbs stall and rural Georgia overwhelms Fulton and DeKalb counties.

Either one is plausible. 

Oh, and we won't know for days.

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