Herschel Walker is not the Stupid, Lying Hypocrite from Georgia that He Appears to be

Because Georgia requires its elected officials to get a majority of votes, the 2% of the vote that went to the Libertarian Party candidate was enough that neither Raphael Warnock nor Herschel Walker got over the 50% threshold in the midterm elections last month. That means there will be a runoff election between only these two candidates next Tuesday. 

Republicans had hoped to take the seat from Warnock because of Walker's name recognition and fanbase. However, Walker's outrageous claims and outright lies cost him a victory in a state where the Republican governor was re-elected over Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate who is highly regarded in the party. That means that people who voted for Kemp over the popular Democrat did not also vote for Walker.

Walker in GA and Oz in PA: How are These Races Close?

Herschel Walker did much better than most people expected in his debate against Senator Raphael Warnock. He was expected to flop miserably. Aside from flashing an unauthorized prop badge that has been turned into a meme, he was able to tie Warnock to the Democratic party which means he votes with other Democrats, namely Biden and Pelosi. That is a common theme among Republican candidates during these midterm elections. He wouldn't vote with the Democrats, of course. He would vote with the Republicans, which would align him with his intellectual equals, Boebert and Greene.

Walker claims to support family values. His son, though, claims he was an abusive philanderer who he and his mom hid from for a while for their safety. Walker claims to be pro-life. Two exes, however, have provided evidence that he paid for their abortions along with an allegation that he drove one of them to a clinic twice because she changed her mind the first time. Still, by getting through the debate with only one meme-worthy moment, it was a huge victory for someone who made a lot of touchdowns when he played college football for the Bulldogs and seems to have scored a lot because of that. 

As for the abuse and philandering, well, we all know that kids say the darndest things.

Marketing Propaganda to the Brainwashed in the Midterms

Patty Murray has been a senator for thirty years. I wish she would retire, but, since she didn't and is running for her sixth term, I hope she wins the election. Her opponent, Tiffany Smiley, is running a highly effective campaign by marketing propaganda to lure those who can be brainwashed into voting for her to do so. Much of her marketing is devoted to associating Murray with Pelosi and Biden, which is true. They are all Democrats, so they all likely vote for the party platform when things come up for votes.

What would also be true, then, is that instead of aligning with Pelosi and Biden, she would align with Boebert and Greene, and would join others like Herschel Walker and Dr. Oz in bringing back Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader. Like Boebert and Greene, Smiley is a relatively young mother who touts her family values. Like Walker, you don't learn anything when she speaks. Like Dr. Oz, she is relying on a gullible audience that she can peddle her snake oil to. However, that is how marketing works. It is also how propaganda and brainwashing work.

What we have here, folks, is a failure to communicate, which is part of her strategy.