4 Key Takeaways from Democrats sweep of the Georgia Runoffs.

In keeping with the 2020 Presidential election, the Georgia Senate runoff elections were a nail-biter with just the narrowest of Democratic wins coming through. Democrat Raphael Warnock, a pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, won his battle with Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler more handily, with a margin of more than 50,000 votes. Democrat Jon Ossoff’s victory took a bit longer but was confirmed finally with a difference of at least 17,000 votes.

When the dust has finally settled from both battles, here are just a few of the things we’ll have learned from the rollercoaster election season:

The Black vote was the definite deciding factor.
Although it’s too early to know the exact numbers on Black voter turnout, the Associated Press has proclaimed that “Black voters were a force in the early vote and on Election Day.” From metro Atlanta to rural and small-town counties across South Georgia, Blacks came out to vote in force, with some areas having a higher percentage of votes cast than in the general election. Many attributed the historic wins to Stacey Abrams and the ground force she laid out after narrowly missing out in 2018 on becoming the first Black woman governor in the U.S., as well as the ongoing dislike of everything Trump by Georgians.