Will Georgia’s Two Senate Runoffs Split Different Ways?

[mystery-ak]

Will Georgia’s Two Senate Runoffs Split Different Ways?

Republicans only need one of the two seats to maintain their Senate majority. A look at the history of similar contests indicates that an electoral split is uncommon, but still possible.

By Kyle Sammin
November 23, 2020

The presidential race seems to be over. Republicans gained seats in the House, but Democratic control is assured there too, if narrowly. Only the Senate stands between the Democrats and undivided government, with the majority there to be decided by two runoff elections in Georgia. As close as that state was in the presidential race—a margin of 0.25 percent, according to the hand recount just finished—we can expect the Senate races there to be similarly close.

How will these elections end? Will they both end in the same result? Prognosticators who write about Georgia seem to assume so, with the debate being whether Republicans or Democrats will win both seats.

But while each party wants to win both contests, Republicans only need one of the two seats to maintain their Senate majority. A look at the history of similar contests indicates that an electoral split is uncommon, but still possible.

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https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/will-georgias-two-senate-runoffs-split-different-ways/

[Fishrrman]

From what I've read, they're neck-and-neck, both of them.

I sense they'll either fall to our side, or to the enemy's, both of them.
It's like Sherman cutting a swath through Georgia all over again.

But, as I've posted numerous times over the past months, Georgia "is changing".
It can no longer be considered a "reliably red" state, and now, at the very best, is "purple".
We'll find out January 5th whether that purple is fadin' to blue...