Georgia · December 3
What the Georgia Runoff Actually Decided
Turnout fell off a cliff, but the down-ballot map matters more than the headline.
The runoff is over and the obvious story — a four-point margin in a contest the parties spent eighty million dollars on — is also the least interesting one.
The interesting story is in the eleven counties along the I-85 corridor where turnout collapsed by more than thirty percent from November. Those counties are the soft tissue of the new Georgia electorate, and how either party rebuilds turnout there will decide more than one race in 2026.
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