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The Senate Will Be Blue, The Dust Will Eventually Settle and Trust in Government Is Not Completely Hopeless
On January 5th, Georgia held its runoff elections for the Senate. That night, it was clear that Democrat Raphael Warnock had won his race by two percentage points, 94k votes. By the next day, Democrat Jon Ossoff had officially won his race by 1.2 percentage points. 50.6–49.4, 55k votes.
Those 149,000 votes are the difference between what would have been a Republican-led Senate in 2021–2022 and what is now a Democratic-led Senate. With a 50–50 split, incoming Vice-President Kamala Harris’ vote tilts the tie to the Democrats. Thank you, Georgia organizers. Thank you, Stacey Abrams. Thank you to everyone who contributed to voting equality and voter mobilization. In November, Joe Biden won Georgia by 11,800 votes — out of 5 million votes counted. The slimmest of margins. Every damn vote matters.
Why focus on these results when all hell broke lose at the Capitol the next day?
Focus on that fact because we need to remember there is good news amidst all the awful news.
Why focus on those results? Because they are the truth, and the outgoing President and his supporters (those that remain loyal despite his open disloyalty to anything resembling democracy) continue to push the lie that those votes…
