georgia senate race to run-off

Silly rule to begin with. But it helped Ossof last year against Perdue. Let’s see if Walker benefits this time.

 

Agree. If every election it’s this close and always a runoff it sure is a bad plan.

 

A month of Trump campaigning for him and he’ll be in the mid 30’s in the polls. Georgia voters have to be heartened by the shellacking election deniers the Christian Taliban and well morons took. Warnock cruises to a win especially with the libertarian out of the picture.

 

Stupid amounts of money are about to be dumped into this. Maybe Trump will even kick in some of those fundraising dollars he hasn't been sharing with the GOP

 

Just laying down a truth bomb. Like right after the Fetterman debate when I pointed out he’d win the election. Next time don’t nominate a blithering moron.

 

Yes, imagine if they simply had instant runoff/ranked choice voting. A lot of people and the state government could save millions of dollars, and no one has to watch insane ads for another month.

 

Runoffs are the way we should do business in every election in this country. First, it forces the winner to actually win a majority, not merely a plurality, and the essence of a democratic institution is having a majority. Second, it empowers more parties to run and alleviates the stranglehold of the two-party system. Presently, most people vote for one of the two major parties simply because it feels like a waste to do otherwise. During a runoff, smaller parties have more power to gain concessions for their endorsement. Third (and most importantly to me), runoffs prevent one of the major parties from using a smaller party as nothing other than a spoiler. Historically, both parties have won elections they would not have otherwise by peeling off supporters from the other major party to vote for a third party with zero chance of winning. That takes us back to winning an election without a majority.

Bottom line is, I wish the whole country did it this way. One more month to wait on a winner is a small price for the additional integrity it adds to democracy.

 

That kind of depends on how those libertarians will vote when they cannot vote for a libertarian. If I’m the libertarian right now, I see my endorsement as leverage to get something I cannot otherwise get in a straight-up vote.

 

Or ranked choice voting

 

You would have to unspend all of those dollars he has already funneled to his money losing family business before he could contribute to the cause...so, that ain't happening.

 

I agree, and there is a way to do that without having multiple elections until someone hits 50.1% like GA. Ranked choice voting (i.e. instant runoff).

 

agreed.

 

Like what?

 

You got me. What do libertarians want?

 

Yea, except there is voter fatigue and typically a smaller turnout in the runoff. Ranked voting is much better imo.

 

To oversimplify it, they want less government. So I'm not sure libertarians would look at either of these candidates and see anything worth getting out of bed for.

 

A runoff doesn’t do much for winning a majority considering our low turnout gets even lower during runoffs.

I’m with you on breaking the two party system but Georgia’s runoff rule isn’t going to move the needle on that. As another poster mentioned, ranked choice is a much better system for that.

I can’t imagine how much money is going to be dumped into Georgia given the stakes.