And Sleepy Joe Will Get The Credit: US Politics January 2021

Was just about to say, can’t be long before the networks start calling warnock. The other one is tougher because absentee votes could in principle move the margin under 0.5 which means a recount. But I don’t think either result is in doubt.

Manchin seems like he can be bought off with pork, a valuable quality in a spineless centrist.

Kornacki already hinting that Warnock's got this.

happy if the majority of remaining votes are in Atlanta. Ossoff and Warnock both winning would be so great

Among the many terrible/dangerous McCain stances: opposing pork.

so tasty and less dangerous than red meat

Manchin seems like he can be bought off with pork, a valuable quality in a spineless centrist.

One can hope

From a ways upthread

Never has a group of people made so much incessant, ever-present, whinypants noise about how they're being silenced

Like, if you're the silent majority, (a) there should be more of you and (b) you should shut the fuck up for a cotton-pickin second

I’m not at all optimistic about the biden administration but I am extremely optimistic about what this does to the GOP for the next couple of years.

as Robyn Hitchcock sang long ago: "the silent majority's/the crime of the century"

putting money on Lou Holtz/Tim Tebow for the 2024 GOP nom

only because I can't remember the name of the LSU coach who won a national championship

Someone post some good GOP tweets

not sanguine. WP and NYT both have Loeffler and Perdue winning at this point

here:

After two months of being told by Trump that the votes are rigged and aren't counted correctly, Republican turnout is down more than Democrats from November in the Georgia runoffs.

For the Republicans who said we needed to 'let Trump work out his feelings,' tonight is for you.

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) January 6, 2021

xp Huh? I'm looking at the NYT Needle right now and they're both in the blue.

not sanguine. WP and NYT both have Loeffler and Perdue winning at this point

You can explore what's left on our handy maps pic.twitter.com/nEDpdIkAL6

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) January 6, 2021

xp Huh? I'm looking at the NYT Needle right now and they're both in the blue.

Dan S, step out for air.

srsly

one treeship is enough

Even if we lose both seats, what happened in November is a trend. Dems have expanded their vote count in counties where they mattered, while the GOP has seen theirs mostly contract -- that's encouraging for Stacy Abrams and her people.

putting money on Lou Holtz/Tim Tebow for the 2024 GOP nom

― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Tuesday, January 5, 2021 8:50 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if we're going all in on gerontocracy, holtz would really up the ante in terms of senility

Thank you for the gop tweet Soto, please keep them coming

Dan S, just look at those two big, beautiful blue needles.

only because I can't remember the name of the LSU coach who won a national championship
Ed Orgeron backed John Bel Edwards (D) in the Louisiana Governor's race.

I’m not crazy, I am just looking at the WP tallies. at this point who knows

Not GOP but:

The three biggest Republican counties in the state have reported almost all of their votes at this point.

Cherokee County (96% reporting)
Forsyth County (87% reporting)
Hall County (98%+ reporting)

Ossoff is gonna start eating into that 2% statewide lead.#GASEN #ElectionNight

— Ryan Matsumoto (@ryanmatsumoto1) January 6, 2021

xxp- I was thinking of Les Miles. I enjoy Orgeron’s accent.

billionaire dressing like this for 6 weeks straight after never wearing it before is so funny pic.twitter.com/TWIxjSpuMT

— raandy (@randygdub) January 6, 2021

is that Laura Dern playing her in the Trump biopic

Ossoff is gonna start eating into that 2% statewide lead.

Ossoffagus

all the wet blankets i follow on twitter are talking about how now ds can do nothing and lose again in four years, but frankly i'm astonished and very glad at least for tonight and maybe even the rest of the week.

Yes, Democrats remain heavily favored, despite their deficit in the tabulated vote. They're favored to win what's left by 9 to 10 points https://t.co/0j5ZRAkGmI

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) January 6, 2021

They might do nothing and fuck up hard but if they win both seats it's on them instead of having to hear "but McConnell" for eternity

yeah shit at least Breyer can retire now (seriously man, Retire) and Alito and Thomas can go on head and catch that rona

They might do nothing and fuck up hard but if they win both seats it's on them instead of having to hear "but McConnell" for eternity

Folks. This is good news.

About an hour ago, Republicans badly needed a Dem letdown in the outer suburban ATL ring.

But, there's no sign of that happening; as more votes have come in the pattern of GOP underperformance has looked even more consistent.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 6, 2021

also

granting all caveats about symbolic representation and the democratic party, it is frankly unreal to think that the pastor of MLK’s church is about to go to washington as a US senator from the state of georgia

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) January 6, 2021

one treeship is enough

― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, January 5, 2021 9:54 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don’t post like that anymore

I think this seems like a good night. Time will tell.

Haha fair

.@Redistrict has seen enough, but Twitter hasn’t. First I’ve seen a label on one of his calls. pic.twitter.com/NFcFzQ8rh4

— Kirk A. Bado (@kirk_bado) January 6, 2021

amazing if they could both win, almost too much to hope for

also my chances of getting 2000 dollars have just increased dramatically, i need it to pay my taxes from unemployment last year

I don’t post like that anymore

Nice Greg Kihn reference

GOP dude:

Here's the Perdue problem in a nutshell. NYT model, which has been excellent all night, roughly estimates he gains 2k votes over Ossoff expected margin in all D counties except DeKalb. But it has him winning DeKalb by 151k, swamping Perdue's current 62k lead.

— Henry Olsen (@henryolsenEPPC) January 6, 2021

That raandy tweet Milo posted upthread is so funny. My wife told me Loeffler was doing rural cosplay type of campaigning but I thought she was exaggerating until I saw that

Based Trump is to be thanked on both counts: for the probable R losses and the 2000$.

it’s true