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So are Democrats. See, a simple chalk message has turned into an assassination plot in the fevered minds of partisan Democrats.

If Republicans continue their fight against compromise then someone will surely come and kill them!

Assassination is an always popular method of compromising with your political opponents. If you kill enough of them then eventually everyone will agree with you.

If there's anyone left.

I must be confused here. Was there a chalk message in front of a Democrat's house? Susan Collins is a Republican, and as far as I know she's the only congressperson who called the police and made a fuss.

On to some factual news: Three of Trump's endorsements in Georgia lost on Tuesday. Kemp and Raffensperger, most important as two that were instrumental in Trump getting investigated for election tampering. Also the Republican AG Trump railed against. Some or all may lose in the general election, but I think this tells us something important about GOP loyalty to the nominal head of the Party. Georgia has an open primary, so some of their votes may be from Democrats who will vote against them in November.

Georgia is in a class by itself when it comes to republican loyalty to Trump. Quite a lot of Republicans hold Trump responsible for their 2 senate losses in the January 2021 senate runoffs due to Trump’s your vote won’t count campaign after Kemp and Raffensperger refused to go along with Finding 11,780 votes. Kind of a payback to Trump backed candidates statewide for causing the loss of two GOP held senate seats. Call it political revenge against Trump.

I voted in the GOP primary this year, just so I could vote against Perdue and Hice. My vote for Kemp was for him as I think Kemp has been an excellent governor. My vote for Raffensperger was more a vote against Hice. I haven’t seen any exit polling on the GOP primary here. There may not be. I can’t answer how many democrats voted in the GOP primary. My guess Georgia being an open primary state was a lot of independents voted in the GOP primary bypassing the Democratic one. Abrams was unopposed, the hot races were on the Republican side. This isn’t unusual for Georgia for the bulk of independents to vote in the primary with the hottest races. In 2020, independents by a 2-1 margin voted in the democratic primary. This year, the bulk of independents voted in the GOP primary. I doubt that many Democrats crossed over to vote in the Republican Primary. Unless there are some exit polling released, no one can be sure.

Nope, but a democrat...you...brought up the assassination possibility if she continues to piss people off enough to write messages on her sidewalk. Pretty soon one will take the obvious next step and kill her.

Maybe I'm the one that's confused...

This is what you said...


Assassination. Maybe we need a few good assassinations to persuade people that WE are right and THEY must compromise.

Both parties are very good at manufacturing outrage.

So let's talk about Walker vs Warnock. One of them is very obviously not what I'd call Senate material nor do I feel he is qualified, despite his former prowess on the gridiron and his resulting celebrity and relative success. His wife-beating proclivities certainly qualify him for a Republican House seat but I'm just not so sure about putting him in the Senate on the word of Trump alone.

Warnock appears to be everything you would want in a Black US Senator.

But then, some of you guys are gonna elect Margerie Taylor Greene instead of Marcus Flowers.

Number wise, here you go.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/Georgia.html

I’d throw them all out except the two April polls. Average, Walker by 0.5 of a point. It’s a pure tossup at this point. The two party’s affiliation strength is now about even in Georgia. A whole bunch from the Northeast has moved down here in the last 20 years bringing their politics with them. That being so, this senate race will be decided by independents. Today, they’re as split as the strength of the two major parties.

Walkers wife beatings and other proclivities won’t make a difference in how those who identify as R’s and D’s vote. Neither will Walkers football exploits of bringing Georgia a national championship. Trump’s word and backing is now irrelevant. That backing may help Warnock as independents still don’t like Trump much. It may come down to how many independents still view Walker the hero of a national championship and how much his wife beating bothers them. Which one wins out among independents, that is impossible to tell today.

I do think Warnock has the advantage today regardless of the 0.5 of a point the polls show. Warnock is experienced, he’s been through two general election campaigns, he’s a political pro and better yet, the incumbent with all the perks that brings. Walker is the rookie, basically shielded from the public during the primaries, no debates, no nothing. He’s the weaker of the two candidates, the GOP hopes Walkers football exploits will over come his weaknesses, especially among independents. Most independents who will vote in November haven’t paid much if any attention to this race yet. Too early for them.

Numbers aside, if the election were held today, my gut feeling is Warnock would win. He could win big or it could be close, but Warnock would win. When you have about half of independents not even knowing there’s a Georgia senate election this November, anything can happen. The knowledgeable half went and voted in the primaries, the non-knowledgeable half, who knows? Best I can do today.

You can bet I’ll be keeping the closest eye and keep on doing deep research into independents. For me, Republicans and Democrats are irrelevant, I know how they’ll vote, they aren’t going to decide this race. Nor are they going to decide the governorship or secretary of state or any other statewide election.

...and the CTE.

Holding that Georgia seat is an important part of my prediction for a senate pick up of a single seat.

Various signs and portents say it could be a pick-up of as many as 3 seats. My guess is that the stars would have to align perfectly for that and since I'm not much of an astrologer someone else will have to compile that information. I'd look closely at which planets are in retrograde before and during the elections as well as the phases of the moon. That Venus has been in retrograde currently might speak to a surge in hate crimes.

Dark forces are at work in these times, unleashed by a modern Sun King who worshipped chaos. He is de-throned but not destroyed...banished, like Cthulhu to a city in the sea, he could still rise again. The stuff of nightmares, surely, but unlikely. His age is past, his power waning.

If names have power, then the ascendant prince-of-darkness may be inevitable.

De Santis.

Whatever the fates have woven for us will eventually be revealed. But it's a long way to November and a lot can happen between now and then. Seriously, all of it can't be bad for the Blue Team, Right...?

Have you met Joe Munchin and Krysten Sinema?

Have you read his book..."Breaking Free: My life With Disassociative Identity Disorder"?

I haven't and I'm not gonna, but it's not something I'm looking for in a future Senators resume.