Midterm Results are in, here’s What the Student Body is Saying About It

Brian Kemp wins in a landside, Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker heading to a runoff.

TONI ODEJIMI Staff Reporter

Results for the 2022 Midterm elections are in, Georgia was one of the key battleground states where the fate of our elections would influence the balance in Washington. Stacey Abrams (D) lost her second consecutive run for Govenor, being beat by incumbent Brian Kemp (R) in a landslide defeat. Kemp won with 53.4% of the vote, Abrams at 45.8%, a 300,000 vote difference.

In our Senate race, Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock were neck and neck all through Nov. 8th. The final results came out to 49.4% for Warnock and 48.5% for Walker, a difference of 35,000 votes. Since neither candidate achieved the required 51% of the votes to be declared a winner, the Senate race will go to a runoff. This will be contested next month, with Election Day being on Dec. 6th, early voting starting a week earlier, Nov. 28th. This seeming dichotomy in our state’s elections reflect a national trend.

What was predicted to be a “Red Wave” sweeping across the country only panned out to a narrow advantage. Republicans should control the House of Representatives but only by a small margin. Polls taken on national feelings towards the two parties in the months leading up to the election slowly took the edge off of the GOP, spurred on by multiple cultural issue that took place within that time.

For more details on how a runoff election works, and to check your registration status, go to georgia. gov/election-2022.

F**k the Republicans.

- Abbey

I’m, I’m disappointed that Abrams lost. I think that if we would have gotten more younger people and just Democrats, in general, to vote in the midterms, I think she would have won in a landslide.

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Caleigh

In my opinion, some pretty terrible people got into office. And I’m pretty disappointed to see Kemp back. Very disappointed to see Stacey Abrams in office, because I think she’s the best, most qualified person to fill that position for governor.”

“I think we [Georgia] need a lot more. I think we need a lot less gerrymandering of our districts, a lot more voting stations, I think we need a lot fewer voting restrictions, especially towards minority groups… I think we need fewer people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, I think we need a better education of what voting does and what it is.

- Reese Orkin

And also a lot of younger people got elected in office. There are some upsides.

- Ginette

November 15, 2022

With a university as large and diverse as Georiga State, numerous opinions on a topic as salient as this were bown to arise. We asked Georiga State students from different political ideologies what they thought of the election, this is what they had to say:

I don’t really look into politics that deeply… It doesn’t really affect me, what happens.

- Gaurab Nag Chowdhuri

...I’m really pissed off at the people who voted libertarian. Because keep in mind, I understand people want change… But you’d be better if you didn’t vote at all than to vote third party.

And I really had a… pretty positive view on his policies, and especially his pandemic response and how he was able to keep small businesses open, unlike governors and Democratic governors…measures that impacted families and small businesses. So really, I’m actually glad that we’re gonna have Kemp for another four years.”

- Mekai Kamara

A lot more people are voting, which is good. Hopefully… that’s the start of a long trend of younger people voting and being more active in their more local politics.

- Yann Jdan-Louis