🚨 BREAKING: 900,000 Georgians have requested their ballots for the January 5 runoff elections.

[Nimble_Idea]

Link to tweet

For the General Election there was:

Ballots Requested: 1,782,580
Request Rate: 25.5%
In-Person Early Votes: 2,694,763

Total Voted Early: 4,013,155
Early Turnout Rate (of Registered Voters): 57.3%


Overall General Election Vote Total: 4,998,482
2,474,507 Voted Democrat

I think we might get to 1.5M at this rate......this will be close. Nervous!
If we get 2M ....it's over for the GOP.

Please kick for others to see. Thanks! Get working! Money won't win this!

[Laelth]

1. k&r for visibility. n/t

-Laelth

[BlueCaliDem]

2. k&r to keep this up at the top! n/t

[spicysista]

3. Great news! nt.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. This is scaring the crap out of the GoP.

[wryter2000]

5. K&R

I'll be making calls tomorrow for the Georgia Democratic Party. They may still be taking volunteers. www.georgiademocrat.org

[yellowdogintexas]

7. I have a schedule set up for calls with Warnock's campaign

and I wrote postcards for the vote by mail campaign. Making these calls is much more fun than calling here in Texas because they register by party down there so the calls are going to Democrats. We have open registration so if a voter never votes in primaries we have no clue so our calls are blind, which can make for some really interesting calls.

I decided to stay with one group for phone banking because when I signed up for different things I ended up messing up the scheduling.

Warnock's phone banking setup is the best one I have ever used. My phone and computer work seamlessly, totally hands free. One of the other ones I used was so strange - sometimes the sound would come through my phone, sometimes earbuds and sometimes the computer speakers. I never could get it to work the same way 2 times in a row.

There is another round of postcard writing coming up for GOTV Early in person. I have my list already.

One of the ladies I spoke with a few days ago asked me what part of Georgia I was from and I told her Fort Worth Texas. She was very surprised and wanted to know why some one from Texas would make calls to Georgia. I told her there were people from all over the country making calls for these campaigns, and writing postcards and we are doing it because we know how important it is for these two to win. She thanked me profusely and I passed that bact to the phone bank group - I think there were maybe 100 in that group.

[MrsMatt]

6. My heavily pregnant friend (currently located in Europe)

walked 2 km (approx. 1 1/4 miles) to submit her absentee ballot, paying $45 for the privilege.

[mikelgb]

8. that is nice, but out of 5 million votes cast in the general we need to increase that!

[Sherman A1]

9. Superb

[yellowdogintexas]

10. so this is why #LameDuckLaOrange was yelling about Stacy Abrams having 800,000

ballots - called it ballot harvesting!

I am just hoping the infighting in the Republican ranks down there just keeps on going

We always have low turnout for runoffs here but I think this one is going to set records.

One of the reasons we have Ted Cruz is because there was a runoff with low turnout. Ted was one of the early Tea Partyers to run for a major office and they came out to vote for him. I still believe if the original race had been only two candidates Ted Cruz would still be Soliciter General for Texas and David Dewhurst would be the Senator.

[judesedit]

11. If the dems pound home that SS, Disability, college tuition plus are on the line

if repugs win, it may make all the difference in the world. But the dems have to repeat it constantly all the way up to the election.

[questionseverything]

42. Plus letting voters know Democrats want to give citizens a generous stimulus package

[judesedit]

45. And explain continually that what repugs are calling socialism

is actually Social Security, Medicare, Disability, Unemployment, 40 hour work week, minimum wage, overtime pay, vacation time, maternity/paternity leave, sick leave, child labor laws, etc. they're talking about. The wealthy are the parasites on this country. They hide their money/assets, skirt the tax laws, and try to collect food stamps and Welfare and any other "free" stuff they possibly can. That's how they hold onto their money. This has to be yelled from the rooftops constantly until it sinks in peoples' heads.

[gademocrat7]

12. K&R!

[liberalla]

13. K & R!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. read this too quickly. thought she meant requested a copy of their nov

ballot as a souvenir to frame

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. hmmmm. is that wise to announce to oppo how many votes

they have to steal?

[flibbitygiblets]

16. Kick n rec

[Hortensis]

17. The quantity and virulence of ads against Rev. Warnock is incredible.

GA is being blanketed all day long by a blizzard of fearmongering and character assassination. There is no political or demonic evil he is not being accused of somewhere, each ad material for a SNL skit or The Onion, but they're real.

The costs must be enormous. I've never seen anything like it. John Ossoff is small potatoes in comparison, but still heavily attacked, often in paired ads one after the other.

[Nimble_Idea]

20. typical puke playbook but how many cuban refugees does GA have?

I ask, because the labels of socialism worked on that community in South Florida. I think the demographics in GA is different. 2M more votes to be had, and I'd bet a lot of it is in the ATL metro and suburbs.

Pukes have nothing to run on, they just calling names and grifting, like the chump GA rejected.

Team Blue wants CoVid Relief now! They don't.

[Hortensis]

23. Don't know but am worried. Too many who don't know

what to think, which is many, and of course those who've soaked in the Kool-Aid of demoralizers and commitment destroyers, the Michael Moore/Justice "Democrats," types, will be turned off and stay home.

[Nimble_Idea]

25. if we let the negatives and the past hold us back...then GA wouldn't have gone blue in 2020

this is not a Jamie Harris SC boondoggle. This is winnable. Check the scoreboard.

Following posts will show how.

[Hortensis]

28. I'm texting to GOTV here in GA, a change from calling in the GE.

We're working on it, and informing DUers of the ad blizzard of the century that every voter in Georgia is being exposed to will not change the outcome.

[Nimble_Idea]

32. I just saw this. I will do two things when I go to GA

meet up with the YangGang and help these millennials.

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

33. :) That sounds great. I like their approach to millennial citizens.

At my age, the dreadful specter of authoritarian takeover has become even more motivating than achieving my ideals, but everything and anything that works. We're not ants.

Enjoy, doing good is baked in.

[BadgerMom]

18. K & T

[MoonRiver]

19. K&R!

[George II]

21. That woman is tireless and unstoppable.

[mahina]

22. K & R & $ & love

[LiberalLovinLug]

24. Trumps votes were up everywhere. A large number may not mean as much as it once did

I think there's also a lot of angry Trumpists that are motivated to make sure Socialist Joe at least doesn't have a friendly Senate.

[Nimble_Idea]

26. we will see

just like this past Nov 3rd.

People made the mistake and came to GA too late. Wasted SOOO much in Maine, SC, Iowa, Ohio and other sink holes. This time, we have the jump and building for the long term.

Make a difference. what did you do?

[Hortensis]

29. Agree. We aren't the only ones hugely motivated this time around.

Nimble, imo imagining election losses are 85% about a bunch of fumble-brained political strategists dropping the ball on America's foot misses at least 99% of reality.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
...

[kansasobama]

27. Democrats need to send big guns like Obama and Mrs. Obama

Mrs. Obama is greatly respected and I hope someone can convince her to campaign in person. She has been using internet and twitter. Stacey Abrams knows what knocking on door is about. She is a bundle of energy but I hope Democratic Party supports her.

[Nimble_Idea]

30. I have no doubt he will be there

Link to tweet

[MustLoveBeagles]

31. Kicked for visibility

[we can do it]

34. Wow!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

35. DU actblue link for runoff and Fair Fight (Stacey Abrams) ...

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dufor2020runoff

[Wednesdays]

36. K&R. nt

[live love laugh]

37. I hope that doesn't mean they're voting by mail which entrusts their vote to Republicans

with Dejoy in charge of the Postal Svc.

[LisaL]

38. What exactly do you think absentee ballots are?

NT

[Nimble_Idea]

39. can just drop it off

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no need to use the mail.

[LisaL]

41. You still get it by mail.

And if you mail it early enough it's going to be just fine.

[Nimble_Idea]

40. bypass the mail

just drop it off at the box. many did.

[coolhandlulu]

43. I have tears in my eyes

N/T

[napi21]

44. YEAP! I'm one of them. I certainly will cast my vote for the two Dems &

my hubby will as well. I HOPE the Pubs are still aagainst mail in ballots & that 900,000 requests are all the Dems that will kick those two Pubs out of office!