GA Runoffs Thread

[Jhhnn]

Um. A lot of the rural counties are reporting 99% and the margins and turnout dont seem to be enough there, with both ossoff and Warnock up by like 10.

Nate silver says not to read too much into since total size of election day vote and total turnout in general are up in the air but damn. This is not where I was expecting to be at this point. We'll see if it holds.

Dunno how it will end up, but it's all in the turnout. Georgia Dems are fired up, riding Biden's win. We'll see if the GOP can match them. We won't have much of a sense of it until tomorrow at the earliest.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

50%, both (D)s up by 7.

 

[evident]

Looking good for democrats so far.

 

[uallas5]

Is it too early to say that it won't matter with the GOP Trump party....if the R's win it was a fair election. If the D's win...RIGGED!!!

or should I have said that Nov 4th?

 

[eelw]

STOP THE COUNT!

Jake Tapper on CNN mocked the GOP around 8. Like why can't the Dems just demand to stop counting now with 25% of the votes counted?

 

[gothuevos]

Looking good for democrats so far.

??

CNN showing both races almost tied with 59% in.

 

[K1052]

Oh my

 

[Caesar]

??

CNN showing both races almost tied with 59% in.

Dem lead has shrunk significantly over the last 20-30 mins. His post was probably before that.

 

[ponyo]

Promise of free money is powerful motivator. Let's see if it's enough.

 

[Mai72]

Race has gotten a lot tighter.

TBH, the Dems know that winning both seats is a long shot.

And, only 63% of the votes are in. 😕

 

[MrSquished]

Three big counties that lean Democratic are barely in yet, DeKalb, Cobb, and Gwinnett.

 

[PlanetJosh]

The Cheddar news tv channel said 2 million of the 3 million early votes are in person votes. Don't know if that was mentioned already. I was assuming most of the early voting would be mail in/absentee ballots.

 

[MtnMan]

If the repubs win both seats then Trump will say... SEE, I HAD TO HAVE WON THE STATE. TWO REPUBLICANS JUST WON BUT I LOST? FRAUD! FRAUD!

He will be screaming fraud fraud for a long time, regardless.

 

[Wreckem]

Three big counties that lean Democratic are barely in yet, DeKalb, Cobb, and Gwinnett.

That and some Republican counties are showing lighter turnout than in November. Some are also showing narrower margins.

 

[fskimospy]

Race has gotten a lot tighter.

TBH, the Dems know that winning both seats is a long shot.

And, only 63% of the votes are in. 😕

Not really a long shot, with his things stand as of 9:15 eastern democrats are favorites to win both seats. Not huge favorites, but favorites.

 

[Mai72]

Not really a long shot, with his things stand as of 9:15 eastern democrats are favorites to win both seats. Not huge favorites, but favorites.

Both seats? Really. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

 

[linkgoron]

Even though the race is now extremely tight, so far the numbers have actually been better for the Democrats. R turnout has been lower than expected and D turnout has been higher. Still a lot of votes to be counted in D-heavy counties.

 

[fskimospy]

Both seats? Really. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

We should! It’s very far from a sure thing, but based on the remaining outstanding votes to be counted the chances are pretty decent.

 

[ponyo]

US stock futures are red. So it's predicting Dem victory at the moment. The futures were down lot more when Dems had the bigger lead. As the gap narrowed, the futures erased some of the losses but are still red.

 

[IronWing]

US stock futures are red. So it's predicting Dem victory at the moment. The futures were down lot more when Dems had the bigger lead. As the gap narrowed, the futures erased some of the losses but are still red.

Hedge fund managers worried that they’ll have to start paying taxes like the rest of us?

 

[brycejones]

US stock futures are red. So it's predicting Dem victory at the moment. The futures were down lot more when Dems had the bigger lead. As the gap narrowed, the futures erased some of the losses but are still red.

That’s kind of dumb really. Most forecasts have greater economic growth under dem control then split government.

 

[ponyo]

Hedge fund managers worried that they’ll have to start paying taxes like the rest of us?

Most of those assholes live in 0% income tax states and have army of lawyers to setup shell LLCs and foundations to pay fraction of what they should. Those tax cheats will never pay taxes like the rest of us.

 

[ponyo]

That’s kind of dumb really. Most forecasts have greater economic growth under dem control then split government.

Smart money is actually dumb money.

 

[Fenixgoon]

That’s kind of dumb really. Most forecasts have greater economic growth under dem control then split government.

Who would have thought that a sane, rational, and stable government is good for business?

 

[IronWing]

That’s kind of dumb really. Most forecasts have greater economic growth under dem control then split government.

For market players it isn’t about how well the economy is growing, it’s about how much of that growth gets siphoned to the top. When it comes to looting the economy, the Republicans are the goto party.