How Democrats Found Thousands Of New Voters And Flipped Georgia’s Senate Seats

It’s been about a month since Democrats flipped Georgia’s two Senate seats in high profile January runoffs, sending Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to Washington and handing the party narrow control of the chamber.

One key to the stunning upsets were the roughly 225,000 new voters who didn’t vote in November but turned out in January, a disproportionate number of whom were people of color. …

The turnout numbers are the latest and highest profile example of an organizing infrastructure Georgia Democrats have been building for years. And they beg the question: can Democrats do it again? Democrats certainly think so. Republicans warn it’s not a foregone conclusion. CONTINUED

Emma Hurt, NPR News

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