December 31, 2020 8:39 AM
Last Morning Reads of 2020
I won’t jump the gun and say ‘we made it’ because Lord knows 2020 would pull some 13/01/20 level nonsense, but we’re pretty darn close to closing out a year that’s been pretty awful for just about everyone.
In light of that, here’s some terrible news:
The Runoff Election
- Georgia’s Runoff Drama Likely to Drag On for Days Before Results.
- Ossoff delivered a verbal one-two punch.
- Early Voting Numbers in Georgia Senate Races Put G.O.P. on Edge.
- Runoff poll finds Democratic candidates with widening leads.
- Judge seeks deal to limit voter challenges in Georgia runoff.
- Why Many Pollsters Are Sitting Out The Georgia Runoffs.
- Republicans believe Trump is sabotaging the Georgia Senate runoff race
Peaches
- How Georgia’s 1st Vietnamese American state rep is continuing Stacey Abrams’ fight.
- Georgia lawmakers to be tested for COVID twice a week during legislative session.
- How Georgia turned blue, and what Democrats are doing to make the change permanent.
- Oil, fuel leaks increase off St. Simons as shipwreck cutting progresses
- Georgia has 3 of Golf magazine’s top 50 courses in U.S.
Jimmy Carter
- Longest-serving legislator in US history will leave on Monday (64 years!)
- Possible Trump pardon overshadows WikiLeaks founder Assange extradition ruling.
- Trump administration taking steps to designate Cuba as state sponsor of terrorism in coming days.
- Feds probing whether Nashville bomber believed in lizard people conspiracy.
- #MoreMoney: FCC adopts a $35 license fee for amateur radio service applications
- Woman Receives Dozens Of Unemployment Debit Cards In The Mail
- Dollar in the dumps as 2020 ends, another bumper bond year.
- 10 Ways Covid-19 Has Changed the World Economy Forever.
Sweet Tea
- Do Dogs Really Make Us Happier? [I’ll save you the click…YES!]
- Movie theater CEO expects up to 25% permanent decline in attendance.
- 100 Positive Things That Happened This Year
Happy New Year!
[Perspective] So long, 2020. We won’t miss you.
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Jessica Szilagyi
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I can see where polling this one is difficult. Getting an opinion on who one intends to vote for paired with their highly probable choice being the same one they made in the general (party choice in the jungle primary of course), makes it easy for a “likely voters” poll. Transposing those intentions to actual votes is, of course, the half-billion-dollar question. The road to Hell…
Turnout has been THE issue since Nov. 4 and as mentioned in Jessica’s links, President Trump has really not done the current Senators much good. It is my best guess that in their reluctance to piss off his disenfranchised cult and doubling down on their discipleship they are endangering the turnout from the Never Trumpers. Whether this is enough to break the historic runoff trends held by the Republicans appears to be a coin toss.
I hope this link works, it is the long line to vote this morning in Cobb county.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1344623101036912643
“One woman tells me she got here at 630am and waited roughly an hour-and-a-half.”
I’m glad I voted already.
Happy New Year GA Pol crew!
Happy New Year.
Grifters gotta grift:
President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that election experts said raised legal questions.
The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims, at one point warning that Raffensperger was taking “a big risk.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html