At this hour, I am both elated and disgusted at the results of the Senate election in Georgia.
By about (+/-) 49,000 votes, Raphael Warnock, Democrat, has won reelection to the U.S. Senate. Warnock won his seat two years ago from Kelly Loeffler who had been appointed to fill a vacated seat, and the election was held to fill the final two years of a six-year term.
By this win, Warnock becomes the first African-American to win a six-year Senate seat from the state of Georgia.
My disgust is that Herschel Walker, Trump's MAGA choice, came within 49,000 votes of winning.
That means that of the 3.4 million (approx.) votes cast, nearly HALF of Georgians (presumably white Republicans who vote only for party) voted for Walker despite all the dreadful details had been coming out about his abusive relations with women, his abject stupidity when speaking off-the-cuff, and his sickening TV ads in which he professed to be about "loving one another". He also loved telling the tale of watching "Fright Night" and learning that werewolves could kill vampires. He decided he wanted to be a werewolf!!!
So, nearly half of the votes cast for the functional moron Walker were apparently cast by functional moron Georgians who didn't give a thought about how Walker would represent them for the next six years.
Analyses from various folks on MSNBC thought Walker received 3% or less of the Black vote and the rest were white votes.
It's a victory for democracy and for the integrity of the U.S. Senate that Warnock won.
Rachel Maddow made an observation that about 70% of Georgia's registered voters did NOT vote.
