Defeat In Georgia

I guess flipping this red state was every bit as hard as it was believed, because it didn't happen.  Local pundits thought the Senate race between Michelle Nunn and David Purdue would at least go to a runoff, but Purdue won handily.  Jason Carter didn't even come close to replacing incumbent Governor Nathan Deal.  It probably came down to the turnout, and you have to wonder how much effect Georgia's voter suppression laws and how much a red-meat ballot initiative to forever bar the state income-tax rate from rising above its current level had to do with the turnout.

And yet life goes on.

Conservativism, I believe, is a neurological condition which does not allow its suffers to create new mental models and road maps when confronted with new situations.  But by that logic, it can also be argued that liberalism is the inability to retain proven mental models and road maps when confronted with new situations.

In other words, the situation's still the same.  All that changes is the rhetoric and imagination of those in charge.