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It's still a bit early to be celebrating being the 51st vote, no? Georgia is going to a runoff and the Republican has a narrow lead in Nevada.

Nevada CCM will win almost for sure, so they will have at least 50, but you are correct regarding Georgia

And, really, the only people in Georgia switching votes will be the ones who voted libertarian, and they'll go R. Best hope is to turn out new voters there.

Half of a percentage point last i checked.

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Yep - it's under a thousand votes. It looks like the largest county with votes outstanding leans blue, but only by a few percentage points. The Dems may very well win it but it's going to be a close one.

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Ehhh Libertarians are pretty much just Republicans who smoke weed. And despite Republicans being the ones opposing legislation, a good portion will probably go R.

Nevada just went blue and was called by CNN

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Nevada went blue. A win is a win, no matter how close.

We now have to support Warnock. Herschel the aborting Headcase already has 30+ million in the bank.

Would help nullify Manchin too.

Georgia allows new voter registrations heading into a runoff and you are also able to fix your ballot if it was defective. It has also been stated plenty that Walker was only helped by Kemp also being on the ballot, as he received 500k fewer votes than Kemp. Warnock is in a much better position going into this than Walker is.

I believe all candidates that ran still go on the ballot again in a runoff, so they will most likely just vote for the same person again

Edit: I said "I believe" I don't live in Georgia lol

I'm glad John is doing better. I'm ready to have him in DC

I've known many that claim Libertarian but voted for trump

Just the top 2.have to get over 50%

Definitely a spring in my step with the way everything went in PA. And the national results really surprised me. The electorate showed up to say: keep government control out of people's reproduction, the elections aren't "rigged," Trumpism is divisive and accomplishes nothing, repudiate white supremacists, white nationalism, antisemitism, homophobia, and the conservative hysteria about trans people, and fascism/autocracy have no place here. (Except for Florida, of course).

Looks like this great experiment of the United States may make it after all.

I'm just glad that Fetterman beat Oz. I don't care about the rest.

Yeahhhh... there is the Manchin/Sinema issue, but given that Mark Kelly was re-elected, Sinema will either get on board or she will get gone next time around.

Welp, guess things won't get any better any time soon. Keep buying ammo.

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I agree that the overwhelming majority of libertarian voters are just republicans in disguise, but:

Control of the Senate is no longer on the line with the Georgia runoff. It's going to determine if it's a 50/50 split or 51/49, both in favor of the Dems.

And Kemp isn't on the ticket to help Walker.

Those two things could head to significantly lower enthusiasm in the R vote.

I’m so confused with all this. I look online and see it’s 48/48 with 2 independents? This is so confusing tbh

It's not really confusing at all.

Those two Independents are to the left of mainstream Democrats, so they will almost always vote with the Dems and almost never with the Republicans.

So with the two indepentens who are more reliable voters than some people within the party (Manchin, Sinema) the democrats have 50 votes, and since the senate has 100 members, there would be a 50/50 split, and whenever there is a tie in votes in the senate, the VP breaks the tie, so the democrats have the same effective majority.

If they get 51 then it means the VP won't have to vote, and there can be 1 or 2 members of the dems who don't vote party lines and they can still pass judges/reconciliation/ect.

Ah, yea that makes sense then. I thought one party needed 51, not just 51 people that typically vote along their lines. Thanks for explaining that!

I'd bet more libertarian voters just don't show up. My theory is the "Libertarians" that are actually Rs in disguise always fill out the ballot for the R when push comes to shove. Then there are true believers. They hate both major parties and won't show up in a runoff. Finally, there are the disillusioned Rs. If you poke around /r/neoliberal you'll find a huge pipeline of people, myself included, who grew up in conservative areas, became disillusioned with Republicans but still were convinced Democrats are evil, made a stop off at libertarianism, realized democrats aren't evil, and became moderate Democrats.

Irrelevant now

Yes, that's how time works

Big fingers crossed on that last sentence. I started to have some hope

Nope. Celebrate and enjoy the celebration because we will take Georgia with no problem that's just a given so keep on celebrating and enjoy it

I had the same thought as you and that's exactly correct we need that seat and I can say we will have no problem getting that seat we'll just send Barack Obama back in and it's a done deal LOL

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We can only hope she gets on board, but she seems to have a ticket to her own personal crazy train.

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