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USA Election Day 2022 Megathread

Tuesday November 8, 2022 is Election Day in the United States of America. In addition to Congressional "midterms" at the federal level, many state governors and other more local offices are up for grabs. Given how things shook out over Election Day 2020, things could get a little crazy.

...or, perhaps, not! But here's the Megathread for if they do. Talk about your local concerns, your national predictions, your suspicions re: election fraud and interference, how you plan to vote, anything election related is welcome here. Culture War thread rules apply, with the addition of Small-Scale Questions and election-related "Bare Links" allowed in this thread only (unfortunately, there will not be a subthread repository due to current technical limitations).

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Georgia (the barely literate guy with ten thousand illegitimate children, credible allegations of familial abuse, and a history of paying his estranged exes to get abortions

Man, I can tell you don't have much insight into the actual Georgia electorate to realize why Herschel Walker has quite possibly the most positive name recognition of any native Georgian in history.

If you think that's how anyone would define their perception of the guy who brought UGA football a national championship and won the Heisman, I don't know what to tell you.

Brian Kemp, noted Trump enemy, is running away with the governorship tonight, while Herschel is fighting tooth and nail at the finish line. So the possibilities are that Stacey Abrams is the photo negative of Walker in terms of popularity, Warnock's two-year tenure gives him an incumbency advantage equal to the magnitude of Walker's titanic stature, or voters look for different qualities in Senators than they do in football running backs. My bet is on the third, particularly when Herschel's laundry is aired out in a competitive campaign (and surely one should expect a brain-damaged running back to have dirty laundry).

Stacey Abrams is the photo negative of Walker in terms of popularity

Without casting aspersion on any of your other points, this is very possible. Between the minor corruption scandal over her shoveling money at her campaign manager to fight a doomed election denier lawsuit and her frequent gaffes, she does not cut a particularly dashing public figure. Insofar as she is an effective Democratic operative, it seems to be within deep blue bubbles and within activist and organizing circles.

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