How much turns on the Georgia runoffs?

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1. Control of the Senate, and thereby the full legislative branch of the United States government, for now.
2. The capacity to reform a judiciary "Constitutionally hardballed" with tremendous hypocrisy into a decades-long supermajority of Republican appointees at its highest level.
3. The capacity to regulate redistricting and thereby prevent a tremendous antidemocratic skew in legislatures at both the state and federal level, for a full decade to come.
In terms of how consequential it will be for the nation as a whole, the Georgia runoffs rivals US Presidential elections. Yet we have less than a month to register voters, only two months to make our case.

My God.

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