ATLANTA — Four years ago, Democrats came so close to ousting Republicans from Georgia’s top offices that anxious incumbents talked about the “wake-up call” every chance they could. Two years ago, the alarms went off when Democrats swept U.S. Senate seats and elected President Joe Biden.
The midterm this week brought a screeching halt to the state’s leftward tilt. Republicans dominated their Democratic opponents in every statewide election but one — triggering another U.S. Senate runoff that could decide which party controls the chamber.
Has the pendulum in Georgia swung decisively back to the Republican corner and rendered the 2020 election a momentary anomaly? Or have seesawing election cycles become a fact of life in one of the nation’s premier battleground states?
