Will Early Georgia Voting Help the GOP?

Yesterday, which was the second early voting day in Georgia, the latest report has more than 172,000 votes cast. In the last mid-term election, which was 2018, the first two early voting days in Georgia ended up with some 70,000 votes coming in.

Some of the Walker supporters are saying these votes represent a larger GOP turnout than in previous years, demonstrating how Walker and the GOP in general have ‘energized’ the midterm campaign.

The idea that GOP votes account for this upsurge in Georgia’s early voting has about as much reality behind it as the narrative of the 2020 Trump campaign about how there was going to be a fifty thousand-person GOP ‘army’ going around doing GOTV work before the 2020 vote.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Republicans don’t like elections. They also dislike anyone who votes who doesn’t live in a nice, white suburb which until recently, is where Republican voters tended to live.

Trump changed this attitude somewhat when he promoted the idea that as an extremely wealthy person, he understood why poor white voters were pissed off. They were pissed off because all those illegal immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries were stealing food stamps and welfare checks. They were pissed off because the socialists and the communists were trying to take away their guns. They were pissed off because they were pissed off.

They were so pissed off at the Democrats in 2020 that Joe’s vote margin over Trump among voters who earned…