Georgia’s Senate Runoff Election may not decide party control of the upper branch of the legislature, but the battle is no less fierce between the Democrats and Republicans.  Senator Raphael Warnock has chosen to focus on voting rights and the importance of participation in politics, while Herschel Walker is tackling the abortion subject and LGBTQ issues head on.

I covered Senator Warnock’s rally at Emory University in Atlanta.  He praised the young people there for their “impatience.”  He added “we need that impatience.  Just don’t get discouraged by the sometimes slow pace of democracy.”  He called upon those in person to reject passivity as well as “those who traffic in division.”  He not only discussed his public housing and Upward Bound experiences growing up.  He defended expanding Medicaid, Pell Grants, and resolving student debt, and “Dreamers,” who are “living in the only country they’ve ever known.”

John A. Tures is a professor of political science at LaGrange College in Georgia. He can be reached at jtures@lagrange.edu. His Twitter account is @JohnTures2.