Trump - Perdue vote versus Biden - Ossoff vote

[House of Roberts]

Why did Trump's total nearly match Perdue's, while Ossoff's total was approximately 100,000 votes less than Biden's?

I haven't heard any of the shows mention this.

[Baltimike]

1. electronic voting. nt

[SheltieLover]

12. This!👆

[rzemanfl]

2. Other candidates for one reason. n/t

[still_one]

7. Yup

[Raven123]

3. Other candidates

[DonaldsRump]

4. Wasn't there a "libertarian party" candidate running in that race that siphoned off votes

Many of these 3rd parties are sponsored, directly or indirectly, by the Rs to take away votes from our folks. The Libertarian picked up about the number of votes separating Ossoff from Perdue, so it kinda' worked, but did not avoid the run-off.

[House of Roberts]

6. So Libertarians voted for Biden but not Ossoff?

That seems counterintuitive to me.

For the runoff, the Republicans will have to directly flip votes to win. It's happened to Ossoff before.

[dsc]

9. well it depends on many things

One, why did the voters vote for the Libertarian in Ossoff's race. It could be they are libertarians but scared of Trump. They could like the person running for senate and not the one running for President. They could hate Ossoff. I man any of those are possible. I think most likely they were libertarians who were fed up with Trump and thus voted for Biden but then revererted to form for Senate.

[qazplm135]

13. not all libertarians vote for Republicans

plenty vote for Dems too...just depends on whether they value economic libertarianism or social libertarianism more.

Regardless...I think Ossoff better figure out how to engage the AA community on his side quickly. He's close, it won't take much to push him over.

[Hoyt]

5. Libertarian candidate got about 60K votes for Prez, but over114K for Senate was probably main reason

I suppose the liberal hackers that GOPers claim threw the election to Biden, weren't smart enough to pick up an extra Senate seat while they were at it.

[House of Roberts]

8. That's my take on alleged 'liberal' cheating,

this morning accused by Newt Gingrich. If we were going to cheat, why not get the Senate seats at the same time?

[OnDoutside]

10. There were only 3 in that race so the potential reason is that moderate

Republicans voted for Biden and then down ballot for Republicans ?

[House of Roberts]

11. I wonder when we'll get polling on these Senate races,

in the coming days?