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What a shocking defeat for Republicans in Georgia.
Jan 6, 2021, 6:39 PM
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Seriously.
Did anybody really think that Democrats, who went into this special election with a minimum of a 100,000 vote deficit coming out of the Nov. 3rd election, had a real shot to win this election in the heart of Dixie?
The events of the day have understandably overshadowed what was a shocking reversal of fortune that almost no one, outside of Stacey Abrams, predicted.
As the son of a right-wing-Republican-former-Dixiecrat-chairman-of-a-county-Republican-Party-farmer- from-SC and lover of politics for the last 60 years, this has been quite a remarkable and historic day.
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All-TigerNet [13141]
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Re: What a shocking defeat for Republicans in Georgia.
Jan 6, 2021, 6:44 PM
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Yep, now every county gets the fantastic govt ATL.
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Ding dong, the Orange Vulgarian and his sidekick Turtlehead
Jan 6, 2021, 6:48 PM
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are dead.
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110%er [7207]
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A radical black democrat now the Senator from GA
Jan 6, 2021, 6:50 PM
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And people think progressives can't win.
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Hall of Famer [22393]
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Doesn't calling him a "black Democrat" imply that he is
Jan 6, 2021, 6:53 PM
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a radical?  ">
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110%er [7207]
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I wanted to use their word.
Jan 6, 2021, 6:58 PM
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"Warnock is the most radical and dangerous left-wing candidate ever to seek this office, and certainly in the state of Georgia, and he does not have your values,” Mr. Trump said at his rally in Dalton, Ga., on Monday.
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All-In [34598]
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has he stopped beating his wife?***
Jan 6, 2021, 7:50 PM
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Re: has he stopped beating his wife?***
Jan 6, 2021, 8:16 PM
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He didn't beat her. She accused him of running over her foot as he backed out of the driveway.
Police responded and took statements from both. They believed him and didn't press charges.
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Oculus Spirit [97732]
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Cognitive Madisonianism is at work, and it's going haywire
Jan 6, 2021, 6:53 PM
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We have a long history of subconsciously keeping parties and factions balanced in the US. It shows up in elections fairly consistently. One party wins the White House, we tend to vote the other way for Congress. We subconsciously WANT that conflict, and that roadblock to progress in Congress and the White House, to force the sides to compromise, for best results. If we get a far left President, like Obama, we react with a Trump. We get a Reagan, we react with a Clinton. We get GWB and a republican Congress, next midterm they go dem. Trump gets a pub Congress, midterms they go dem. We have swerved hard left again after Trump. He couldn't accomplish much with either party in Congress.
Georgia is expected. And I'd bet, if we can hold it together, the 2022 midterms will see Congress go red, at least in one house, maybe both.
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Hall of Famer [22393]
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Georgia was not expected. Trump and his Senate
Jan 6, 2021, 7:10 PM
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and House Republican enablers accelerated Georgia turning blue dramatically.
Obama was not far left. It sounds odd for you describe him as such. Like a rationalization for Trump and what we have today.
The country hasn't shifted hard left. Joe Biden is as moderate as they get these days. Progressives don't trust him. The country has shifted to decency and the rule of law.
The political winds shift back and forth, but the events of the last four years and the last few days will leave quite an impression on a lot of voters, especially young people, and it will take more than 2 or 4 years to forget it.
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Oculus Spirit [97732]
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Well I expected it.
Jan 6, 2021, 9:53 PM
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I also expected Trump to win in 2016. I also expected something like what happened today. I didn't expect the capitol police to be so unprepared. That wasn't expected.
Obamas senate voting record was as far left as any senator before he ran.
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110%er [7207]
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Re: Well I expected it.
Jan 7, 2021, 7:41 AM
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That's the same metric people use to claim Harris is an extreme progressive and she also is not.
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It's how they rationalize voting for the Orange Vulgarian
Jan 7, 2021, 10:45 AM
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and excusing the actions of the fool and his supporters as somehow a logical response to something Democrats did.
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