"The People Have Spoken"

The people have spoken...those were the words that Senator Warnock used at his victory celebration. Almost all elections are relatively close, and yet the victors use those same or similar words, as if they've been given a sweeping mandate by an overwhelming majority of the population. The numbers relating to Warnock's win don't indicate that Georgians en masse rose up to carry him to victory.

According to the Georgia Secretary of State office there are a total of 7,866,677 registered voters. The most recent numbers show that in this weeks senate runoff election there were 3,535,579 votes cast. So 55%, or 4,331,098 of registered voters were no-shows. Of those who did vote, 1,816,096 (51.4%) voted for Warnock. Herschel Walker received 1,719,483 (48.6%) votes. The bottom line is that 23% of eligible registered voters chose Warnock. Democrats and the media are touting the win as a great victory. Given the above numbers, to use the phrase "The people have spoken" is a joke. 

I voted for Warnock. I was tempted to write in Mickey Mouse but did not want to risk the loss of my vote being the reason for Walker being elected. The man is a proven liar. He did not graduate from the University of Georgia. He was not involved with the Cobb County Sheriff's department or with the FBI at Quantico. His lies and moral character are being challenged by several woman and members of his own family. His handlers kept him out of debates and off stage as much as possible hoping to avoid his nonsensical gibberish comments. That he has the intellect and knowledge of a primary school student and possesses no qualifications at all to be a United States Senator is painfully obvious. That 1,719,483 voted for him is an amazement to me. I cannot comprehend what form of reasoning could possibly lead anyone to do that. Or to elect Marjorie Greene to the 14th Congressional District with 70% of the vote. One might theorize that there is something toxic in Georgia's drinking water, but that doesn't explain the popularity of other 'unique characters' like Lauren Boebert in Colorado and Mat Gaetz in Florida.

Try as I may I cannot come up with a rationale that would explain why half of the voters pushed the Walker button. The only possible explanation is that reasoning is not part of the process. It is those on the far-right placing party over everything, automatically voting for the Republican candidate no matter how unqualified and/or extreme they may be. And by doing that they're destroying the very political party they're trying to preserve. It's even possible that these same people would support a candidate who proposes to suspend the Constitution.