Why Some Georgia Voters Split Their Ballots Between Democrats And Republicans

Two Democrats in Georgia won the state's U.S. Senate runoffs this week — a stunning upset after nearly two decades of Republican control that also handed Democrats a narrow majority in the Senate. But even though both parties ran their candidates as one ticket, nearly 20,000 Georgians so far appear to have split their tickets in the two races, between Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock and Republican Sen. David Perdue. "It didn't seem like there was a lot of daylight in terms of policy in terms of their stances on [President] Trump, in terms of what they do for Georgia between David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler," said Bernard Fraga, a political scientist at Emory University. "So the fact that a relatively small number of Republican voters were willing to vote for David Perdue but not Kelly Loeffler is an interesting phenomenon." Nathan Muller is one of these Georgians who saw daylight between the candidates where campaign strategists designed there to be none. The software engineer from