Peachy Keen

In a closely watched U.S, Senate campaign in Georgia, a state with two black Senate candidates form the two major parties, the Democratic incumbent is an articulate, well-spoken intellectual Baptist minister who pastors Martin Luther King, Jr.'s congregation and walks his faith like he talks it and his Republican opponent is an Heisman Trophy-winning idiot football player who played for Donald Trump's New Jersey Generals team in the United States Football League (created, according to Paul Slansky, under "the assumption that what America needs is more football") before going to the NFL and the Dallas Cowboys, fathered numerous children with different women with a sexual bravado that would embarrass Stephen Stills, cannot put a single sentence together, and supports pushing "bad air" to China to deal with global warming in America.  So you would think the Democrat would win going away, right?

Wrong.  Senator Raphael Warnock is so barely ahead of Republican Herschel Walker in the U.S. Senate election campaign that the margin is statistically insignificant.  How can that be?  Because this is Georgia, not New Jersey.  If the original United States Football League had succeeded, and Walker, a native Georgian, had made his home in New Jersey, and had run for Senate against Cory Booker - like Warnock, black, intentionally bald, well-spoken, and better dressed than Walker - it would be Booker by a mile.

Warnock has held his own against Walker on the campaign trail and in the debates, citing economic concerns and crime (unlike most Democratic candidates this year) against Walker's failed businesses and honorary law enforcement badge, but he's been slipping lately.  Left with no choice to take the low road, Warnock has released ads bashing Walker for his hypocrisy on being anti-abortion buy paying for one of his baby mamas to abort a child, a charge Walker denies despite the evidence against him.  And Walker supporters are sticking by him, despite the evidence against him - because the Republicans need to flip this Senate seat if they want the Senate majority they are now so tantalizingly close to. 

Warnock may actually be in a better position for November, because of the black vote in Fulton County, where Atlanta, the most populous city in Georgia, is, and because Georgia black voters in general don't want a nimrod like Walker discrediting, not uplifting, the race.  But thanks to a third-party candidate in the campaign, the election my go to a runoff if no candidate gets a majority. 

If Warnock loses, he can always go back to his day job as pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church.  If Walker loses, well, maybe a future Republican President will give him a diplomatic post.  Maybe he'll make him ambassador to Georgia - but then what happens when Walker shows up in Atlanta instead of Tbilisi? 😄