Georgia on everybody's mind

 As of Monday night, Joe Biden is leading in Georgia by 11,000 votes; if it holds up, he will be the first Democrat to claim the state's sixteen electoral votes since 1992.  There will be a runoff election in January for both senate seats, and today Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, the incumbents, demanded that Brad Raffensperger resign.  Raffensperger, also a Republican, is the secretary of state, the person with ultimate responsibility for counting the votes.  The senators say he failed to deliver "honest and transparent elections," i.e., to deliver the state to Trump.  Raffensperger says they can go chase themselves, throwing them a bone in the form of a swipe at "one of our long-time problem Democrat-run counties," Fulton (Atlanta).  Meanwhile, the two people who need this guy to count the votes in January are doing their best to piss him off.  

The person they should be trying to deport is Stacey Abrams, who didn't concede and didn't quit after the gubernatorial election of 2018 was called for the previous secretary of state, Brian Kemp, who ran a master class in voter suppression.  The measure of Abrams's organizational skills is that a million more Georgians voted this year than in 2016; she registered tens of thousands and then got them to the polls or the drop box.  The national party will be watching, not to mention the country generally, because these two senators have a chance to break the malevolent power of McConnell.  There's even talk that the spiteful little homunculus will try to block Biden's cabinet appointments, whose approval is usually automatic no matter how awful they are (Sessions, Barr, Pompeo, Carson, DeVos, etc., etc.).  Georgia's a weird place, the home of John Lewis but also of Q-crazy Marjorie Taylor Greene.  We'll have to see if The Incredible Sulk, as the Independent calls Trump, can stop tweet-whining long enough to campaign here, and if it does Perdue and Sticky Fingers any good.  

Keep calm and carry on voting.