{"id":28792,"date":"2020-05-24T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T16:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28792"},"modified":"2020-05-24T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T17:00:54","slug":"the-2020-senate-campaign-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/05\/24\/the-2020-senate-campaign-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2020 Senate Campaign: Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the race for the Georgia Senate seat<\/a> previously held by Johnny Isakson (R-GA), and currently held, by appointment of Governor Kemp (R-GA), and in contradiction of President Trump’s wishes, by Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), polling is not in Loeffler’s favor. From<\/a> Civiqs, <\/strong><\/em>for The Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

4. If the special election for U.S. Senator from Georgia were held today, who would
\nyou vote for?<\/p>\n

Doug Collins, Republican 34%
\nRaphael Warnock, Democrat 18%
\nMatt Lieberman, Democrat 14%
\nKelly Loeffler, Republican 12%
\nEd Tarver, Democrat 6%
\nSomeone else 4%
\nUnsure 12%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The election for Loeffler’s seat is a special election, which means there is no primary<\/a>, thus the format of the above question. If no candidate exceeds 50% of the vote on Election Day, then a runoff between the top two finishers is held January 5, 2021. Collins is Trump’s preferred candidate, but to my eye the deciding votes are in the Unsure<\/strong> row: they hold the balance of power. If Loeffler drops out and the Unsures break for Representative Collins, then Georgia will, working purely from quantitative analysis have a far-right Senator, as Rep Collins currently has a TrumpScore<\/em><\/a> of 97.5%. And so much for Erick Erickson’s trust in Governor Kemp’s judgment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But this isn’t the only Georgia news in a rare year in which both Senate seats are up for grabs. The incumbent in the other seat is David Perdue (R-GA), and Civiqs<\/strong><\/em> asked questions in the context of each Democratic declared for the primary:<\/p>\n

1. If the election for U.S. Senator from Georgia were held today, who would you vote for?<\/p>\n

Sarah Riggs Amico, Democrat 42%
\nDavid Perdue, Republican 45%
\nSomeone else 8%
\nUnsure 5%<\/p>\n

2. If the election for U.S. Senator from Georgia were held today, who would you vote for?<\/p>\n

Teresa Tomlinson, Democrat 44%
\nDavid Perdue, Republican 45%
\nSomeone else 6%
\nUnsure 4%<\/p>\n

3. If the election for U.S. Senator from Georgia were held today, who would you vote for?<\/p>\n

Jon Ossoff, Democrat 47%
\nDavid Perdue, Republican 45%
\nSomeone else 4%
\nUnsure 3%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The election for Perdue’s seat is a regular election, meaning there is a primary to select Party nominees, who then compete for the seat. It’s fascinating that all the declared Democrats are competitive with Perdue, and investigative journalist Ossoff<\/a> is actually ahead of Perdue. It suggests a level of dissatisfaction with Perdue that may leave Georgia with a Democratic Senator.<\/p>\n

Georgia may be one of the most entertaining States viz a viz<\/em> the election this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the race for the Georgia Senate seat previously held by Johnny Isakson (R-GA), and currently held, by appointment of Governor Kemp (R-GA), and in contradiction of President Trump’s wishes, by Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), polling is not in Loeffler’s favor. From Civiqs, for The Daily Kos: 4. If the special \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28795,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28792\/revisions\/28795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}