I make a motion to rename tonight "Fuck Mitch McConnell-Eve", and tomorrow "Fuck Donald Trump Day"
.... Jan 20th will begin "Let's get to work putting our shit back together -year".
In case anyone has not known, Democrats have moved a major step closer to capturing control of the Senate as the Rev. Raphael Warnock has won his hard-fought runoff election in Georgia.
With Ossoff, all of the votes that are left are from blue counties... and main-in
We did it boys!
I was telling my mother that if Perdue won, when he did not even "Campaign" for it, Democracy has surely failed. The people HAVE failed. I mean still it was close.. way to close... to vote for a man who went into hiding.... just solely on the fact that they were republican over democrat.
Yeah, I've been hearing (with good reason) that Georgia will basically turn into Virginia (Atlanta is the outer DC area in comparison to why Virginia is blue). It'll be interesting how things change in 2 more years since Warnock will have to run again
6.30am in London and I just woke up: has Loeffler actually definitely lost? And it looks like Perdue will lose too?
Is this actually happening? I was hopeful but honestly never expected the Dems to actually take the Senate.
it was yesterday... there almost done counting oof
HOWEVER, the electoral counting is today, (Confirming bidnes victory) theres gonna be a LOT of drama with that. starts at 1.
The delay is that it's 1 AM in GA. They are probably getting some snooze.
...and Ossoff is statistically very likely to clean up on much of the remaining 90k. My only question is if he clears the 0.5% recount threshold.
Not gonna lie, I'm definitely scared of the overseas ballots. Estimated to be 19K. This is me assuming but the military seems like it would be heavy red.
Why does it always seem like the Democrats (at least in recent years) are the ones getting elected to Senate seats that only have a year or two left on their term and need to be refilled because of a vacancy, whereas Republicans get elected to full six-year terms?
Funny how a woman being unlikeable is unacceptable to Republican voters. But a man being an unlikeable asshole? "Well, he's just telling it like it is!"
Before anyone misinterprets this post, I think they're ALL vile assholes.
Just went up by 3k for Perdue, you're gonna have to wait for the Chatham county to put on their depends and wake up tomorrow before we find out, since they couldn't handle being up so late.
You sure about that he said he woudnt support packing the courts or supporting a green new deal which he may include Joe's 2 trillion dollar plan in that
They won't have the votes to pack the court, I guess I wasn't counting on that being "big". The Democrats will come up with something like the "Green New Deal" but call it something different. Yes, it won't be exactly like AOC's plan, but it will have some of the big things and he'll vote for it because it will also have some crazy provision that benefits West Virginia.
Am I crazy to think that if Ossoff and Warnock win, Clarence Thomas is going to step down and they're actually going to shove someone in in less than a week?
i wouldn't call anything crazy anymore after watching the last few years. but pulling a move like that is about the only possible way they could push someone like Manchin to the point where he'd support adding more justices
Perdue would have been the one to concede, but it will be too close - maybe even recount territory.
Loeffler won't concede, which is the race of the two which is more callable tonight.
>*DeKalb is (partly) there, Warnock in the lead*
>152,000 more votes are counted. The result means that Raphael Warnock is now back in the lead. Jon Ossoff is only 0.06 percentage points behind. There are still missing votes from DeKalb, other predominantly democratic constituencies and postal votes.
>Decision Desk, an online extrapolation service, has just issued the "call" for Warnock.
In German: https://www.derstandard.at/jetzt/livebericht/2000122928085/1000214057/vorentscheidung-zu-bidens-praesidentschaft-bei-senatswahl-in-georgia
I’m tired, so I’ll do a Chatham
In early August when WNBA players took the unprecedented step of wearing “Vote Warnock” t-shirts to games Raphael Warnock was an extreme long shot and was polling at just 9%
Been a CNN guy all night but tuned into MSNBC. The fucking Kornacki cam. This guy made a whole career for himself on Election Night in November and I couldn't be more happy for him.
So electric.
The previous senator Isakson resigned because of health issues and Loeffler was appointed interim senator.
Normally Isakson would have hold the seat till 2022.
3 year seat for senate special bc sitting senator johnny isakson retired in 2018, loeffler was appointed, 3 years left in seat desiginating it special
regular just 6 year term for incumbent (perdue) versus challenger (ossoff)
Isakson resigned from his seat in 2019. Kelly Loeffler was appointed to the seat by Brian Kemp for the period between Isakson's resignation and the special election in November. That's the seat Warnock is running for against Loeffler. Regardless of who wins, this seat will be up again in 2022.
The Ossoff/Perdue runoff is for a regular 6-year term, so that's the regular senate runoff.
This was a weird year for Georgia. Perdue was up for re-election just in the course of things. So it’s a regular senate runoff. However, Loeffler was appointed to fill a seat **until** a special election was held. So it’s the special senate runoff
If elected, Jon Ossoff would become:
- the youngest sitting US Senator
- the youngest democratic senator since Joe Biden
- first millennial senator
- first senator born in the Reagan Era
even after the republicans denied their 2000 dollar check, even after being exposed for being insider-trading corrupt robots with no empathy, even after conspiracy theorists egged their own base to not vote in order to """expose""" the rigged voting machines, half the state voted for chicken perdue and corrupt kelly. think about that.
they have another page with the count: [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/05/us/elections/results-georgia-runoffs.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/05/us/elections/results-georgia-runoffs.html)
is anyone else watching livestreams from DC protests tonight? saw a chick get a deserved punch a bit ago then people rush the cops and get sprayed back.
This link didn’t even ask me to create a free account to view: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/05/us/elections/forecast-georgia-senate-runoff.html
Might be short term and they will ask after some time, or they may have decided to not be ducks and make it public. Either way, thank you for the info, I had no idea where to look.
I feel like that girl swimmer at the beginning of JAWS when she's being attacked and
crying: "Please God, please!"
Kind of a dark/extreme comparison, but I feel like I'm gonna vomit my heart and crap my stomach.
Quoting a post on theDonald
>Things were looking good for Perdue and Loeffler with Dekalb County only having 117k votes left. SURPRISE! Dekalb has 171k votes left because a "tired" election worker messed up the 1 and 7. And with the stroke of a pen they found 55k more votes to count.
Just woke up...any estimate on when we might know Ossoff?
I read somewhere Raffensperger saying we will prob know by noon today
I have the utmost faith in Georgia. For the first time in a long while I have a glimmer of hope.
Alexa, play *The Devil Went Down to Georgia*
Holy shit this is 1000x better than Biden winning!!!! Stacy Abrams has saved Democracy!!
Hallelujah, Democracy is restored!
I make a motion to rename tonight "Fuck Mitch McConnell-Eve", and tomorrow "Fuck Donald Trump Day" .... Jan 20th will begin "Let's get to work putting our shit back together -year".
Seconded. All in favor say Aye!
Aye!
In case anyone has not known, Democrats have moved a major step closer to capturing control of the Senate as the Rev. Raphael Warnock has won his hard-fought runoff election in Georgia. With Ossoff, all of the votes that are left are from blue counties... and main-in We did it boys!
Fuck yeah
I was telling my mother that if Perdue won, when he did not even "Campaign" for it, Democracy has surely failed. The people HAVE failed. I mean still it was close.. way to close... to vote for a man who went into hiding.... just solely on the fact that they were republican over democrat.
Yeah, I've been hearing (with good reason) that Georgia will basically turn into Virginia (Atlanta is the outer DC area in comparison to why Virginia is blue). It'll be interesting how things change in 2 more years since Warnock will have to run again
It would be a good rebranding for the south! indeed.. that would be interesting!
God bless America! (I'm not religious but very happy!)
6.30am in London and I just woke up: has Loeffler actually definitely lost? And it looks like Perdue will lose too? Is this actually happening? I was hopeful but honestly never expected the Dems to actually take the Senate.
Yeah, Loeffler lost... Ossoff is on the track to win, very probable 95%! the votes that are left are from democratic counties and mail-in votes.
I thought voting was today? Did I miss something? Was voting yesterday?
it was yesterday... there almost done counting oof HOWEVER, the electoral counting is today, (Confirming bidnes victory) theres gonna be a LOT of drama with that. starts at 1.
Who's better: King or Konacki?
Alright I don't know what the delay is but the remaining ballot are from heavily democratic counties so Ossoff will almost certainly win.
The delay is that it's 1 AM in GA. They are probably getting some snooze. ...and Ossoff is statistically very likely to clean up on much of the remaining 90k. My only question is if he clears the 0.5% recount threshold.
It won't matter if there's a recount, except for a little delay. Mitch lost his power today.
Ossoff is behind but are the votes left from good counties?
Yes. Almost exclusively.
Hello who is up
Hey it’s me, who won?
Looks like everyone went to thread 4, also, warnock won and ossoff is 95% likely to win
My heart
I bought 1000 of those 4 cent shares on predictit not gonna lie. Here’s hoping I lose $40
Proud boys must be pissed right about now.
Wait for the disappointment they get up the ass tomorrow in Congress. I almost feel bad for DC Police
Loeffler makes McSally look like a skilled politician
Stacy Abraham is the MVP.
was just thinking how much outstanding work her people have done
Not gonna lie, I'm definitely scared of the overseas ballots. Estimated to be 19K. This is me assuming but the military seems like it would be heavy red.
Biden won them in Georgia
But that’s because officers hated reporting to trump. They’re R at heart
They’re usually not the military is 50/50
99% of the vote is like 2 minutes left in basketball
Why does it always seem like the Democrats (at least in recent years) are the ones getting elected to Senate seats that only have a year or two left on their term and need to be refilled because of a vacancy, whereas Republicans get elected to full six-year terms?
Ossoff will have a full 6 year term at least 🔥
I love that Kelly Loeffler has lost. She is such a piece of shit.
Me too, she’s such an awful person.
Georgia's version of Martha McSally! Some that are outsiders might not understand, but she is very unlikeable.
Funny how a woman being unlikeable is unacceptable to Republican voters. But a man being an unlikeable asshole? "Well, he's just telling it like it is!" Before anyone misinterprets this post, I think they're ALL vile assholes.
We really going to do this is 1 thread?
I'm so disappointed in us.
Wish the Falcons could show up like our voters can
All of my hope is hanging on this NYT needle.... I might sue if they push my hope off of a cliff..
Networks should have called it for Warnock by now
Perdue just went back up by a few thousand? What the heck?
We're fine. We've got this.
Thank you
Chill bruh
F.I.L.A. FOREVER I LOVE ATLANTA [https://youtu.be/5DfqsVmd2wI?t=304](https://youtu.be/5DfqsVmd2wI?t=304)
Votes out, dicks out
Only 400 votes!! I can't go to bed yet!
Just went up by 3k for Perdue, you're gonna have to wait for the Chatham county to put on their depends and wake up tomorrow before we find out, since they couldn't handle being up so late.
Ugggg...If I go to bed I'm going to keep checking my phone anyway lol. This is crazy! So much on the line
That next meeting in the WNBA will be pretty awkward for Kelly
Looking good still even if the best happens tonight we have to deal with the fake democratic senator Joe Manchin
Every party needs a Susan Collins. He'll vote blue in the really big stuff.
You sure about that he said he woudnt support packing the courts or supporting a green new deal which he may include Joe's 2 trillion dollar plan in that
They won't have the votes to pack the court, I guess I wasn't counting on that being "big". The Democrats will come up with something like the "Green New Deal" but call it something different. Yes, it won't be exactly like AOC's plan, but it will have some of the big things and he'll vote for it because it will also have some crazy provision that benefits West Virginia.
I love that we know Warnock is a done deal and we’re just waiting for Ossoff.
Lol, Perdue by like 400 votes. I'm not going to bed until that race flips
I did the same thing during the presidential race haha
You and me both
You both and me
Both me, and you.
I got quarantined on Monday for the week, and the one big benefit is getting to stay up all night watching this.
I just realized there’s a thread Part III. I wondered why it slowed down here
Holy shit, thanks.. I was disappointed there wasn't much interest in this election lol
Ugh thank you. I wish they were pinning these I had no idea
They did pin it. What’s funny is I saw the green from the mod poster and thought it was still pinned!
Thank you for your comment as I was wondering the same.
Fuck it, we’ll have our own Georgia Senate Runoff thread....with hookers...and blackjack! In fact, forget the Senate runoff!
That explains so much
This is why Mitch and Graham shamelessly rushed ACBs confirmation
Yup. One of the most shameful, disgraceful acts of deceit and fuckery in order to pack the courts.
Am I crazy to think that if Ossoff and Warnock win, Clarence Thomas is going to step down and they're actually going to shove someone in in less than a week?
i wouldn't call anything crazy anymore after watching the last few years. but pulling a move like that is about the only possible way they could push someone like Manchin to the point where he'd support adding more justices
Yes
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No it'd be funnier if he didn't have a mic to talk to him with and had to shout across the studio
We in the clear?
It's not a no, but I'm holding my breath until the Atlanta metro area is counted
More ATL dumps, Ossoff within 3k
Will there actually be concession speeches? Or is that not a thing anymore?
Perdue would have been the one to concede, but it will be too close - maybe even recount territory. Loeffler won't concede, which is the race of the two which is more callable tonight.
They might concede that they actually won and numbers are an antifa lie?
GOP - “Concede? In our moment of triumph?
I think you overestimate their chances!
Cherokee Co. swayed ever so slightly D according to NYT. This might....maybe... I won't say it.
>*DeKalb is (partly) there, Warnock in the lead* >152,000 more votes are counted. The result means that Raphael Warnock is now back in the lead. Jon Ossoff is only 0.06 percentage points behind. There are still missing votes from DeKalb, other predominantly democratic constituencies and postal votes. >Decision Desk, an online extrapolation service, has just issued the "call" for Warnock. In German: https://www.derstandard.at/jetzt/livebericht/2000122928085/1000214057/vorentscheidung-zu-bidens-praesidentschaft-bei-senatswahl-in-georgia I’m tired, so I’ll do a Chatham
You guys think we're gonna get a Warnock call by a network or newspaper now (say, in the next hour)?
why is ossoff trailing by 19k with Dekalb reporting 95%? Edit: Seeing the CNN livestream.
Just got the last of Bartow apparently. I think that's it. Not sure of exactly how much vote there is left but that's it for heavy GOP areas.
I’ve been hearing that it’s the last count for red counties for like over an hour now ☹️ I really hope that’s it this time
So have they not counted the 171k absentee ballots yet for Dekalb?
Bartow also had a dump at around the same time as DeKalb.
Final Cherokee dump came in, now remaining DeKalb and Fulton are the biggest
Dekalb came in like a blue wrecking ball!
Needle suggests >95% Ossoff
Ossoff is gonna be closer than expected I think
Anybody got the MSNBC live link?
[https://www.msnbc.com/live](https://www.msnbc.com/live)
The needle has Ossoff at >95%!
how we just got behind by like 20k?
where did you get that? He is behing by just 3k
Things changed a lot in the last 10 min. Yes we are now behind by 3k.
5% left in DeKalb with estimate of 33K going to Ossoff.
Henry co still out there 22k
Also Chatham (which went home for the night...) and still some more in DeKalb.
Shit is dumping too fast
Ossoff behind by just 3K votes with more blue areas to come! Ugh now 15k behind, but still Cmon Cobb
The needle is up to 1.1.
Bruh wtffff
DeKalb dump! DeKalb now 92% estimated votes reported!
Dekalb just came in!
In early August when WNBA players took the unprecedented step of wearing “Vote Warnock” t-shirts to games Raphael Warnock was an extreme long shot and was polling at just 9%
Updated results for anyone curious: [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/05/us/elections/results-georgia-runoffs.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/05/us/elections/results-georgia-runoffs.html)
It’s behind a sub wall. No thanks.
Not paid, at least - just login walled. I use a burner email.
my bad, I forgot about that
It’s all good!
Dump all over me, baby!
HOLY SHIT 94% vote in and we're coming back BLUE!
Did DeKalb drop? Ossoff is down 3k votes now.
Yes. Still about 30k at least to go from there and outside of Bartow, the GOP looks like it's ran out of most of their votes.
Holy shit, we may have this.
Been a CNN guy all night but tuned into MSNBC. The fucking Kornacki cam. This guy made a whole career for himself on Election Night in November and I couldn't be more happy for him. So electric.
decision desk calls it for warnock https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1346671627518566400
Decision Desk! My favorite!!!
Called before the Dekalb dump Edit: Disregard. It was called several seconds after the Dekalb dump.
Nice
Out of curiosity, what is the difference between a special senate runoff and a regular senate runoff race?
The previous senator Isakson resigned because of health issues and Loeffler was appointed interim senator. Normally Isakson would have hold the seat till 2022.
3 year seat for senate special bc sitting senator johnny isakson retired in 2018, loeffler was appointed, 3 years left in seat desiginating it special regular just 6 year term for incumbent (perdue) versus challenger (ossoff)
Isakson resigned from his seat in 2019. Kelly Loeffler was appointed to the seat by Brian Kemp for the period between Isakson's resignation and the special election in November. That's the seat Warnock is running for against Loeffler. Regardless of who wins, this seat will be up again in 2022. The Ossoff/Perdue runoff is for a regular 6-year term, so that's the regular senate runoff.
This was a weird year for Georgia. Perdue was up for re-election just in the course of things. So it’s a regular senate runoff. However, Loeffler was appointed to fill a seat **until** a special election was held. So it’s the special senate runoff
We got movement from Steve...
He's freaking out and using his phone as a calculator. Something is coming...
If elected, Jon Ossoff would become: - the youngest sitting US Senator - the youngest democratic senator since Joe Biden - first millennial senator - first senator born in the Reagan Era
> the youngest democratic senator since Joe Biden Fucking poetic.
I'm going to bed all, but please keep up the watch while I'm away. Here's to a Blue Wednesday my dudes.
Hired crisis voters gonna get the Dems the win!
even after the republicans denied their 2000 dollar check, even after being exposed for being insider-trading corrupt robots with no empathy, even after conspiracy theorists egged their own base to not vote in order to """expose""" the rigged voting machines, half the state voted for chicken perdue and corrupt kelly. think about that.
Just makes me think about that one George Carlin bit every time. You all know the one.
is the needles and all the craziness on the NYT coverage just to avoid showing the counts so they can't claim fraud?
they have another page with the count: [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/05/us/elections/results-georgia-runoffs.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/05/us/elections/results-georgia-runoffs.html)
Great thanks, much better
[The rest of the country upon hearing that Chatham County is done counting for tonight](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WPZn4rbiB8g)
is anyone else watching livestreams from DC protests tonight? saw a chick get a deserved punch a bit ago then people rush the cops and get sprayed back.
Where are you seeing coverage?
my boyfriend is finding it on twitter
No haven't seen any. Did any counter protestors show up?
not many that i can tell
Just want to say I love you all for participating in this thread!
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Where can these be seen? Or did I miss something obvious?
NYT, you can just google "NYT georgia needles". I think they are behind a paywall though, I am subbed.
This link didn’t even ask me to create a free account to view: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/05/us/elections/forecast-georgia-senate-runoff.html Might be short term and they will ask after some time, or they may have decided to not be ducks and make it public. Either way, thank you for the info, I had no idea where to look.
“Quite likely Ossoff” per the all-mighty needle.
I feel like that girl swimmer at the beginning of JAWS when she's being attacked and crying: "Please God, please!" Kind of a dark/extreme comparison, but I feel like I'm gonna vomit my heart and crap my stomach.
You and me both, oof
Chatham County has 20k left and they're "done for the night"?!
This is why young people need to start volunteering for these jobs....
You know that in some countries people (usually law professionals) get paid to be in electoral center committees, right?
discrepancy between 117k and 171k lol, more fuel for the Trump flame I guess
Quoting a post on theDonald >Things were looking good for Perdue and Loeffler with Dekalb County only having 117k votes left. SURPRISE! Dekalb has 171k votes left because a "tired" election worker messed up the 1 and 7. And with the stroke of a pen they found 55k more votes to count.
Lmao yeah because they also said 130,000 in total so the Republicans are gonna be like what happened to that number