Georgia on the nation's mind: 5 essential reads
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In fact, argues Westminster College Assistant Political Science Professor Joshua Holzer, runoff voting tends to produce better policies.
“This is because,” Holzer writes, “runoff elections often favor candidates who lean to the center, and center-leaning candidates seem to be more likely to respect human rights and provide better representation of a larger portion of the electorate.”
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With Warnock’s victory, the Democrats control the Senate with 51 of the 100 seats and no longer need a deciding vote from Vice President Kamala Harris to break ties in order to pass bills that support their legislative agenda.
But as political science scholar Richard Hargy explains, the campaign stood as another test of the influence former president Donald Trump holds within the Republican Party and as “an opportunity to improve their Senate seat tally ahead of a difficult election cycle in 2024.”
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In Georgia, if no candidate receives 50% of the general election vote, there’s a runoff between the top two vote-getters.
And those races are expensive, writes political science professor John A. Tures.
Though the final tally for the 2022 runoff is not completed, in 2020, the campaigns cost at least $75 million statewide.
Despite the expense, runoff elections have an impact on voter turnout – and not for the better.
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