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BREAKING: Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock is polling ahead of all potential GOP challengers according to the latest polling of the Georgia U.S. Senate race!
RETWEET if you support
@SenatorWarnock
as he runs to keep Georgia Blue in 2022!
JohnSJ
(91,962 posts)sheshe2
(83,341 posts)JohnSJ
(91,962 posts)Iggo
(47,487 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)And then I woke up.
Good job, Georgians
hes a keeper!
MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)My fingers and toes are crossed that he wins reelection.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,297 posts)sheshe2
(83,341 posts)GoodRaisin
(8,885 posts)That is good news indeed.
relayerbob
(6,508 posts)Love my Senator(s)!!
peppertree
(21,529 posts)One can only hope.
SilasSouleII
(357 posts)Grumpy Old Guy
(3,120 posts)AZ8theist
(5,339 posts)The Repuke takeover of voting in Georgia will simply APPOINT his replacement, no matter what the vote is...
Thanks, Sinema and Manchin. Keep your beloved filibuster while our democracy gets flushed down the toilet.
NJCher
(35,427 posts)Both my brother and I have donated to support Rev Warnock because we like his record of public service. We will continue to support him. He is by far and away the most qualified candidate in the race.
msongs
(67,193 posts)WarGamer
(12,104 posts)Around 600 GA RV
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/ga/georgia-senate-walker-vs-warnock-7329.html
Warnock 48%
Walker 46%
More highlights:
Biden Approval 46-48
Trump Approval 43-48
Warnock Approval 43-42
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Cha
(295,912 posts)better NOT Screw with the Election claiming it's up to them who wins.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)Dems & sensible Georgians will need to get to the polls en masse to beat the voter suppression and voter subversion.
bamagal62
(3,218 posts)brer cat
(24,401 posts)We must return our good Senator.
DFW
(54,055 posts)When is the last time that happened?
I have never talked to Warnock (different story with Jon Ossoff), but I like what I have seen so far, and have already sent him the max I could for his re-election fight for next year. If we can get a Democrat in as governor and put a stop to voter suppression efforts by the current crook, Kemp,
maybe voters in some of the surrounding states will notice that things go better with Democrats, to paraphrase an old ad slogan by the oldest big company in Georgia.
I want Stacey for governor!
DFW
(54,055 posts)WarGamer
(12,104 posts)Max Cleland and Zell Miller
DFW
(54,055 posts)Miller only gets a D with an asterisk.
WarGamer
(12,104 posts)are to the LEFT of MOST Senators from 20 years ago...
Progress!
brooklynite
(93,858 posts)..people here dismissed polling showing Gov Newsom losing his recall and embraced polling showing Charlie a fist beating DeSantis. Thats not how this is supposed to work
DFW
(54,055 posts)With Georgia Republicans in full voter-suppression overdrive mode, Warnock will probably need a 12% edge (in votes he would get in a fair election) just to be competitive in votes that will actually be counted in his favor.
WarGamer
(12,104 posts)Warnock needs '20 turnout to win...
Looking more deeply into that PPP poll, GA is no cake walk.
UGADawg
(501 posts)after the election.
FakeNoose
(32,351 posts)It's time to step up and keep Georgia BLUE in 2022!
Support Senator Warnock and send him back for 6 more years.
Polybius
(15,238 posts)Warnock 48%
Walker 46%
More highlights:
Biden Approval 46-48
Trump Approval 43-48
Warnock Approval 43-42
dianaredwing
(406 posts)Just curious
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)Hasnt lived in Georgia for several decades .
dianaredwing
(406 posts)His chances of making it until the election might be significantly decreased.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)Pinback
(12,134 posts)I love Sen. Warnock -- that's why his photo is my avatar. And as a Georgia Democratic voter, I'll be working hard and contributing $$ in the coming months to help him get re-elected. But it's going to take a monumental effort to keep him in office.
This isn't like the Doug Jones re-election campaign in Alabama -- far from it. But it's not going to be easy, either.
This poll of a few hundred Georgia voters (not exclusively registered voters or likely voters) shows Warnock barely beating Herschel Walker, a very popular retired football star with a +13 approval rating who nevertheless has a couple of significant negatives: Walker is currently a Texas resident, and he suffers from multiple personality disorder.
The same poll shows Warnock only 3 percentage points ahead of the disastrous Kelly Loeffler, who was Trump's second choice to replace Johnny Isakson when he retired for health reasons. (TFG preferred rabid attack dog Doug Collins, but Kemp appointed multi-millionaire and big-time Republican donor Loeffler... funny how that works.)
Loeffler, who's generally regarded by everybody but die-hard Republicans as a self-dealing, robotic country club socialite, could still win back her old seat if she chooses to run. Why? Because there are a lot of die-hard Republican voters in Georgia. And both Collins and David Perdue (who lost his re-election bid to Jon Ossoff) could both still enter the race and would be formidable contenders.
What really helped Warnock get elected in January -- aside from being a great person, a highly respected faith leader who's hard to attack, and a broadly appealing figure who really inspires the Democratic base -- are a confluence of factors:
- He was running at the same time as Jon Ossoff, who is hugely popular among young voters who aren't necessarily tuned in as a rule.
- Georgia Democrats (and activists and donors all over the country) put out a huge effort to reject everything Trump in this runoff election.
- And a bunch of the Republican nutbag voters, who unfortunately are statistically significant -- as evidenced by the election of idiots like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Andrew Clyde -- stayed home for the January 2021 runoff election, believing that "the whole thing was rigged" since their God Emperor Slobfather was "cheated" out of re-election. How engaged they are in 2022 remains to be seen, but I'm guessing it galls most of them no end to have to call a Black man their U.S. Senator.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm happy about this new poll, and I'm happy that Georgia has attained a new status as a battleground state. I do not agree with the pessimists who say it's impossible to overcome the voter suppression and subterfuges of the state's Republican machine, or that this race is unwinnable Because Midterms, because January 2021 was an anomaly, et al. Nor do I agree with those who think Georgia has "turned blue" and is now a safe state for Dems.
I hope DUers will contribute to Warnock's campaign and help any way they can. We're going to need it, big-time.
WarGamer
(12,104 posts)Who's a more formidable opponent in '22?
Walker or "Insider Trading Barbie"?
Pinback
(12,134 posts)Walker seems like a ridiculous choice to me, but Georgia Bulldog fans are in love with him and might overlook the mental illness. And of course the Warnock camp could never mention that!
Loeffler probably would have a slight edge overall, Id say. Despite her obvious criminality (well, obvious to a Democrat, anyway) and off-putting demeanor, she may appeal to more Republicans, especially women.
Thats just my take as a resident of Blue metro Atlanta. The voters in Valdosta and Rome may see things differently.
WarGamer
(12,104 posts)I see a few more things.
Loeffler said some anti-Trump stuff post election. She ran a crap campaign in 2020. I think the Billionaires wife shtick has very little appeal.
Walker has the mental health stuff plus the ex-wife stuff. But I've seen him speak online and he's charming and positive albeit sounds less sophisticated than most. (Do I get a prize for not using my real words?)
Walker with full Trump backing will rally the white middle age Football and Beer crowd but I can't see it doing much in the 'Burbs.
Would Walker pick up SOME more support from the black community? IDK... can he win over suburban soccer moms? IDK.
If the GOP was smart... they'd go with a safe choice like Rep. Austin Scott... a boring vanilla good haircut prototype GOP'er with a family and a Laborador Retriever.
They go with Loeffler, Walker or Perdue and they lose.
Pinback
(12,134 posts)It will be interesting to see who survives those Hunger Games.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)Pinback
(12,134 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,297 posts)Pinback
(12,134 posts)oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)6 figures of "red" area voters who voted in Nov didnt return to the polls in Jan. Had the same numbers turned out, the outcome likely would've been different in at least the Ossoff race.
Pinback
(12,134 posts)Without TFG on the ballot in 22, Im hoping the QAnon types will be demotivated.
oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)Tell everyone its rigged & the Dems are going to cheat, people stay home in large enough numbers to lose, therby allowing Trump to say "See? I told you it was rigged!". I saw idiots, I mean people, post on Fb "Well, they stole another one"
But as the news of those not voting became known, none of those people wanted to hear that!
Amishman
(5,541 posts)Still, I'll take it!
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Deminpenn
(15,246 posts)Walker as their nominee. Maybe this is part of the reason why.
calimary
(80,699 posts)Liked and retweeted, with a K&R here, too!
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)yardwork
(61,417 posts)sheshe2
(83,341 posts)mcar
(42,210 posts)East-A-Squared
(14,505 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)runs against him. Let's make it really hard for the GA republicans to disenfranchise voters.
Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)calimary
(80,699 posts)We havent got this til we get this.
electric_blue68
(14,609 posts)posters using the headline "Breaking:" and then just a person's name format...
I've lived through too much to not think bad news right off
So format suggestion:
BREAKING:Good News; __________________
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