Introduction

This year's midterm elections are shaping up to be one of the most difficult to predict. Democrats significantly underperformed expectations in the House losing basically every competitive race to Republicans and barely hanging on to control of the lower chamber. But Georgia's Senate run-offs were the equivalent of Democrats catching a straight flush on the river. We talk about the long political history of Georgia dating back to its unlikely founding as an anti-slavery state meant to be a colonial buffer between South Carolina and Spanish-controlled territory of Florida.