What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia

Both Perdue and Loeffler are now in the lead because some of the more recent votes came in from Cherokee and Walton counties and were very good for the Republican candidates. But so far the GOP leads aren’t reflected in the NYT’s needles, which are still tilting slightly toward Ossoff and Warnock. It seems like those Republican gains were anticipated by the needle’s model, so they didn’t change its forecast much.

In case you’re keeping score, FiveThirtyEight’s predictions in November had Republicans favored to win the regular (Perdue) Georgia seat and Democrats favored to win the special (Loeffler) seat. So unless there’s a split tonight, we’ll go 1-1. A split is still possible, though!

As we await more results, we’re minutes away from another hot contest: Canada vs. USA for the gold medal in the hockey World Juniors!!