The Senate Will Be Blue, The Dust Will Eventually Settle and Trust in Government Is Not Completely Hopeless

Jonah Hall
5 min readJan 14, 2021
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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.

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Jonah Hall

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