Kyrsten Sinema was no more on the radar of voters in GA than any other Dem caucus, i.e. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer. i.e. "without Sanders in the Senate, voters may have been less motivated to go for Warnock and Ossoff", "without Warren in the Senate, voters may have been less motivated to go for Warnock and Ossoff", "without Schumer in the Senate, voters may have been less motivated to go for Warnock and Ossoff". It's a meaningless statement, and Mad Libs logic.
The reason voters voted in large numbers was because so much was at stake. If the GOP cooled temperatures, if you had GOP senators and candidates strike a more moderate and conciliatory tone, if GOP senators passed legislation that actually brought things around in GA during the Trump era, that
might not have motivated people as much, that they would have much to lose with any increase of GOP power which unfortunately is the case right now. So again perhaps it's your party and your ideology you need to look to. Conservatives used to be good at reassuring centrist voters and the apathetic voters that their lives and way of life isn't at stake at the ballot.
Now they are proudly claiming the opposite, i.e. that they well make America more and more fascist, and that guarantees that outside the hardliners, people (rightly) hate the GOP and all that it stands for today.
The point is that in the runoff election in 2020-2021 it was a simple -- "vote Warnock and Ossoff = Senate Majority Dems". The equation was that simple and clear, whereas the math in 2018 wasn't that simple.
What me and most observers, backed by data are saying is, that the defining story in 2020 was higher voter turnout among
both parties in an election that saw very little vote-splitting in a time when "undecided" voters had shrunk in numbers compared to previous elections and in a year conducive to higher voting by mail and in-person on account of the pandemic.
2020 wasn't like previous elections. Biden lost the classic bellwether swing states (Ohio, Florida) and 18 of the 19 bellwether counties (Callam County, WA being the only one with its batting average still standing) and he still won with a sizable majority (
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...r-counties-go/). That suggests the shrinking of centrist and undecided voters with higher turnout, rather than them playing a particular role in the election. That also supports the general view that vote-splitting and GOP voters for Biden, or Lincoln Project quixotism, was extremely marginal and minor in the overall scheme of things.
I said the Cuban Missile Crisis specifically and not the Cold War. In the same way I referred to January 06 and not Trump's whole presidency.
If we want to fudge the issue, I can point out that half a million Americans died thanks to Trump and his policies, with DJT killing far more Americans than Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam, Osama, combined, and greater than them all by a magnitude at that. He killed far more people than Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Manson, Jim Jones, McVeigh, all the school shooters combined, and by a magnitude greater. He killed far more people than the Italian-American mafia, the Irish Mob, the Russian Mafia, the Mexican cartels combined, and by a magnitude greater then them all.
The Capitol riots was:
-- The first time the certification of votes was interferred.
-- The first time the certification of votes was subject to an attempted sabotage.
-- The first time the Capitol was attacked since the War of 1812.
-- The first direct attempted coup d'etat of the US government.
It's a historical event because like 9/11 nothing of its kind has happened before on US Soil. Donald Trump is the first Presidential candidate to refuse to concede an election. This is the opinion that includes Republican voices like Romney, Murkowski and others. It was the opinion that Liz Cheney took a stand on at the expense of her political career. For someone who keeps prattling on about moderate conservatism it's kind of strange why your downplaying and dog whistle denialism aligns with the narrative of Trump and his Goon Squad in the congress (Cruz, Hawley) rather than the moderate conservatives you ostensibly claim to support. It's really interesting that when it actually comes to taking a stand, when you cling to some kind of centre, you don't actually stand alongside the people who are taking hits for being at the center from the extreme republican wing.
That's why I find it hard to see any hint of reality in your discourse and views about your conservative beliefs.