"Democrats are buoyed by the strong early vote numbers, which show Black voters making up a larger percentage of the electorate than in November and higher early turnout in Democratic congressional districts in the state....
"Meanwhile, early-vote turnout has lagged in Republican-held congressional districts, likely leaving GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue with a larger deficit heading into Election Day than they had to make up on Nov. 3."
One polling operation today released findings of an 8-point Jon Ossoff lead and a 7-point advantage by Raphael Warnock, both of which I take with a boulder-sized grain of salt.
Anyway, should Democrats find themselves with a two-chamber majority in January, they'll need to proceed — well, duh — judiciously; that is, to not blow it by going full-doctrinaire Monty. Legislative progress will indeed be possible by enlisting the aid of a few Senate Republicans now warier than ever of Trumpism's madness and especially of purple-state blowback by swing voters sick to death of chronic Republican obstructionism. 2022 and 2024 are right around the corner.
This is doable. It is, for sure, just slimly doable. (See my even gloomier take, below.) And again, it requires restraint among Dems. Regrettably, a quite vocal minority of the base regards prudence as a political vice, not a virtue.
I appreciate that such progress is less than ideal. To repeat an oft-heard truism, we live in the world as it is, not as we might like it to be. If for years I had shrieked the latter online, I'd have multiple times more readers than I have now, for the illusory is always attractive. But, other than my raking in the consequent cash, what would be the point of bamboozling those readers?