Earlier today, SurveyUSA published poll results showing incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock up nine against Herschel Walker in the race for Georgia’s open senate seat. The race continues to trend toward Warnock after several damaging revelations about Walker. Warnock continues to benefit from an essentially unvetted opponent in Walker, a celebrity candidate who was buoyed by Trump’s endorsement. Three of most interesting findings in the poll:
• Warnock leads by 22 points among voters under age 50, and trails by a nominal 2 points among those age 50 and older.
• Walker significantly underperforms sitting Governor Brian Kemp’s numbers: of those who cast a vote for Kemp for Governor, only 78% vote for Walker for Senate. Of those who vote for Stacey Abrams in the gubernatorial contest, 93% vote for Raphael Warnock.
• Black voters choose Warnock by an 80-point margin; white voters back Walker by 28 points.
Georgia political talk show host Ben Burnett isn’t surprised by Walker’s poor performance among younger voters or his collapsing numbers in the latest polls.
“Herschel Walker won a Heisman Trophy over 40 years ago and carried a historically underachieving football team to national prominence, and 68.2% of Republican primary voters made him the nominee for that reason, Burnett said. “Young voters don’t care about that. They know the University of Georgia as a current powerhouse football program. People under the age of 40 tend to look past Warnock’s domestic issues and left leaning voting record because they don’t realize what 9.1% inflation means, and Herschel Walker means very little to UGA’s football success today. Herschel can’t articulate anything much less a value proposition. Walker’s talents on the field don’t exceed his problems off of it. Senator Warnock isn’t a great guy. But Warnock has never pretended to be an FBI agent, he’s never allegedly held a gun to his wife’s head, and he doesn’t sit in a party that claims to have strong family values. Walker’s entire political existence sits on a mountain of hypocrisy with no results. Georgia Republican voters are 100% to blame for selecting a poor candidate. Any other senate candidate in that primary would have beaten Senator Warnock by sitting in their basement and staying off social media. I mean any of them.”
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Since 2004, O’Hern has worked with political campaigns in roles ranging from major projects involving nationwide digital marketing for U.S. Presidential candidates, U.S. Congressmen, state governors, and state representatives. O’Hern’s journalism background includes news reporting and editing for various organizations and news publications in Alabama and Florida since 2002. O’Hern graduated from Samford University in Birmingham, Ala with a degree in journalism and a minor in political science.