What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia
To the extent you can read anything into exit polls, a decline in Trump’s approval rating obviously isn’t great news for the GOP.
Cobb County (Atlanta suburbs, including Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves) has reported 96,000 absentee votes; Ossoff won them by 33 points and Warnock won them by 35 points. In November, Biden won Cobb absentees by “just” 30 points. At this point, Democrats’ absentee hauls in metro Atlanta are what they need to win. However, we need to see what the Election Day vote looks like before they can celebrate.
How counties are voting in the regular Senate runoff
The current margins, by county, for the Georgia Senate race between Sen. David Perdue (R) and Jon Ossoff (D) and how that margin compares to the county’s final Nov. presidential margin
| county | County size | Cand. Margin | Pres. Margin | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | ◼️◼️◻️ | D+2.5 | D+0.8 | D+1.7 |
| Ben Hill | ◼️◻️◻️ | R+23.6 | R+26.2 | D+2.6 |
| Candler | ◼️◻️◻️ | R+42.1 | R+42.1 | R+0.0 |
| Johnson | ◼️◻️◻️ | R+41.6 | R+39.7 | R+1.9 |
| Turner | ◼️◻️◻️ | R+23.5 | R+24.8 | D+1.2 |
| Lanier | ◼️◻️◻️ | R+40.3 | R+41.7 | D+1.3 |
| Chattahoochee | ◼️◻️◻️ | R+8.2 | R+13.5 | D+5.3 |
How counties are voting in the special Senate runoff
The current margins, by county, for the Georgia Senate race between Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) and Raphael Warnock (D) and how that margin compares to the county’s final Nov. presidential margin
| county | County size | Cand. Margin | Pres. Margin | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | ◼️◼️◻️ | D+3.0 | D+0.8 | D+2.2 |
| Ben Hill | ◼️◻️◻️ | R+23.3 | R+26.2 | D+2.8 |
| Candler | ◼️◻️◻️ | R+42.3 | R+42.1 | R+0.2 |
| Johnson | ◼️◻️◻️ | R+41.4 | R+39.7 | R+1.7 |
| Turner | ◼️◻️◻️ | R+23.3 | R+24.8 | D+1.5 |
| Lanier | ◼️◻️◻️ | R+40.1 | R+41.7 | D+1.6 |
| Chattahoochee | ◼️◻️◻️ | R+8.9 | R+13.5 | D+4.6 |