Roughly 225,000 people who voted in January runoff elections didn t vote in November. A disproportionate number of them were people of color, a sign of where Democrats political future lies.
People listen to Rev. Raphael Warnock speak on Jan. 5, 2021 in Marietta, Ga. Warnock and fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff won the Georgia Senate runoffs on the strength of superior Democratic organizing around the state.
It s been about a month since Democrats flipped Georgia s two Senate seats in high-profile January runoffs, sending Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to Washington, D.C., and handing the party narrow control of the chamber.
One key to the stunning upsets were the roughly 225,000 new voters who didn t vote in November but turned out in January, a disproportionate number of whom were people of color. That s just the math, said Bernard Fraga, a political scientist at Emory University who has studied the turnout data.
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