The Georgia election has broken state records for early voting in a runoff election—and those numbers are, unsurprisingly, highest in counties with a lot of Democrats, who tend, these days, to vote early in higher numbers than Republicans do.
, among other things. “If Walker had held office before, could give a coherent policy statement, didn’t have all the personal baggage that he had, then there’s a decent chance—given party polarization in voting—that he would have won along with the other Republicans,” Andra Gillespie, a political scientist at Emory University, told me. “But his personal issues beset his campaign.” Now many Republicans are hoping that party polarization will come to his rescue.
A few hours after that interview, I called up a conservative in northwest Georgia, who has worked to elect Republicans in that part of the state for decades, to ask how he was voting. He told me that he left his Senate vote blank in November, and he’s skipping the runoff. “It wasn’t an easy decision,” he said. Beyond his historically unwavering support of the Republican Party, he’s also a diehard fan of the University of Georgia football team, for which Walker was once a star.
Among the things that gave him pause about Walker, he said, were the nonsensical comments that the candidate had made on the campaign trail—several of which are currently featured in Warnock’s. In one, we see a clip of Walker speaking in front of a crowd in McDonough, Georgia, on November 16th. “Vampires are some cool people,” he says. “A werewolf can kill a vampire—did you know that? I never knew that. So I didn’t want to be a vampire anymore. I wanted to be a werewolf.
Other Republicans are less conflicted. Mickey Tuck, who works in facilities management, in Rome, also in the northwest part of the state, calls himself a “hardcore conservative.” He voted for
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