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Republicans who have applied for the seat online

Per AJC[1], the following (notable) Republicans have submitted an application to be named for the seat:

I think there should be a subsection within Republicans for those who have applied online. There is a meaningful distinction between the potential candidates about whom the media has speculated and the candidates who have taken the step to submit an application. Thoughts? Jacoby531 (talk) 22:42, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

What is the logic of including the current five candidates in the infobox?--Mpen320 (talk) 19:47, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It makes enough sense to me, they're the 5 candidates polling above 5%. What confused me was the order: it was Loeffler/Collins/Lieberman/Warnock/Tarver, which makes no sense whatsoever. I changed it to alphabetical. Nevermore27 (talk) 03:36, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nominees

The current version of the article refers to "nominees" of the Libertarian and Green parties, but even though these individuals are their parties' only candidates they should not be called that. Georgia's special election laws place all candidates, with or without a party, on the same ballot without any notion of party nomination. Airbornemihir (talk) 00:22, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reflected in the article. Airbornemihir (talk) 00:26, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Headers

I have restored the original version of this article's formatting: [1]. Since there are not separate party primaries, the candidates should be in a single top-level section. This is consistent with 2020 Georgia's 5th congressional district special election, 2017 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election, 2010 Georgia's 9th congressional district special election, and 2007 Georgia's 10th congressional district special election, as well as articles for Washington and California (all elections) and Hawaii (special elections) which have all candidates running in a single initial election. There is no consensus to use the other format. Reywas92Talk 05:30, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You are completely burying candidates. I insist that you try your method on mobile and see how unreadable the experience is. Tedm03 (talk) 05:32, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Matt Lieberman endorsements

Is there a better source on Matt Lieberman's endorsements? Almost all of them are supported by a single news article about a fundraising event held in CT last November, prior to any other candidates entering the race or even the appointment of Kelly Loeffler. The article doesn't once use the word "endorse" or even imply that the politicians had endorsed his candidacy. The article only substantiates that these individuals were present at a fundraising event, not that they endorsed the candidate at the event or even that they donated to attend (vs being comped, as one might expect might occur for e.g. the state party chairwoman at the time). This may have made sense early in the campaign, when the candidate had all party support (given he was the sole candidate), but at this point, that's fairly spurious evidence in the face of nearly the entire party endorsing Pastor Warnock. Jbbdude (talk) 19:35, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "US Senate: Who has applied for Johnny Isakson's Georgia seat". Archived from the original on 2020-04-27.

Requested move 5 November 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved; the practice for multi-stage elections that overlap a new year is X–X+1 Y election, as has been shown through examples on this page by Number 57. The examples by SecretName101 show this practice applies to US elections. Sceptre (talk) 03:22, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]


– These senate elections consist of one stage in 2020 and one stage in 2021 (runoff election), so it makes sense for the article title to reflect this (c.f. 1788–89 United States presidential election) Chessrat (talk, contributions) 23:18, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

So embarrassing, to see the result of this RM. For goodness sake, it's a part of the 2020 United States Senate elections. This isn't a case of pre-1913, where the state legislature chose :( GoodDay (talk) 14:50, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

How surprising the ruling of this RM? I accidently undid the closer's moves. GoodDay (talk) 15:28, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GoodDay, so why didn't you un-undo it? – Muboshgu (talk) 17:12, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I was unable to, tech wise. GoodDay (talk) 17:55, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Being elected for how long?

As I understand it, the winner's term will run until January 2023. This information should be placed in the lead section. --174.95.161.129 (talk) 04:58, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Did that. I couldn't before, because it was semi-protected. --174.95.161.129 (talk) 08:33, 13 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification needed? Why?

I'm not sure what this question was looking for, but here's the lede from the NYT that uses the title: Nov. 1, 2020 DALTON, Ga. — On a recent Sunday morning in northwest Georgia, the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, the South’s most prominent Black preacher and a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was giving his stump speech, mixing a little laid-back pulpit humor with a searing, Jeremiah-like condemnation of Republicans in the age of Trump. I'll remove the question as answered. Activist (talk) 07:52, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Graph

Can somebody fix the pre-runoff graph? BSMIsEditing (talk) 13:24, 22 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

County-level map

Would it be possible to change the color scheme on the county-level results map in the infobox? I understand the reasoning behind having Loeffler and Collins as similar colors, but it makes it very difficult to tell who won which county, especially given how pale most of the counties are. Maybe instead of orange and pink, we could do red and gold, or something with a bit more contrast? It would make sense for Loeffler to be red, because she's the GOP runoff candidate. Jacoby531 (talk) 20:38, 22 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As is, it's effectively unreadable in South Georgia. 128.62.152.16 (talk) 22:35, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Runoff Election

Currently the article has a link to the generic article "two-round election", which obviously is of no help with respect to the specific form of the election to take place in January. I had thought that adding information to rectify this was self-evidently of value, but tag requests have been REPEATEDLY deleted without explanation. I personally do not have the knowledge to improve the article, hence tagging for clarification. I apologise for vandalising in my anger, but deletionists are just vandals that hide by posting links to style-guides.

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