Warnock & Ossoff

I think it was Larry Sabato who said if "Day of" ballots numbered more than a million the Sedition Caucus (Loeffler & Perdue) would win. He was wrong. 

While it's not over, the outstanding ballots (imo) should give each Democrat a net of at least 10,000 more votes. While there WAS a big turnout, it was a big turnout of red AND blue, as was the November election. Over 4 million voters in a run-off. As a small-r republican I celebrate that. It means we can more truly proclaim: We the People have spoken.

Why did I work so hard for months to help win this race?

Brannon and John and Lillian and Ruthie and Clemmie and Sheila, and Mother and all my family

And my former student Shayne's memory, and for all those other kids I taught over the years even those who voted the other way. and especially those who are black or Muslim or Jewish or gay or latino or immigrant

For Charity Stinchcomb's memory. And John Lewis's.

For America.

For the Oostanaula and all its tributaries and all the other watersheds of this beautiful earth.

For several relatives and friends and even folks I don't know who have serious health issues -- even if they voted differently

For everyone who has had or will have or would have had Covid

For the public schools where I spent my career

For art and music and storytelling

For the wonderful lady who I just met yesterday who is homebound and expected a absentee ballot like she got in November but for whom we could not get a ballot at this late day; she wanted so to vote for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff and Daniel Blackman. And the grandmother I met last week in Polk County who was so appreciative that I was able to help her get her "rejected" signature approved so her vote counted toward this victory

For campaigns that do not rely on insult or lies

For all my fellow Democratic Party stalwarts who have had "Socialist!" "Communist!" yelled at them. I was first caled a communist in 1968 because I supported Hubert Humphrey (an ardent anti-communist BTW). No we are neither of those things. We are generally FDR/Obama liberals

For me, dadgum it, I am so proud to have been a very tiny part of this effort for these two good men

Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff will do us proud.