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Opinion: Time to abandon Georgia’s runoff voting system

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock makes a campaign stop Sunday, Dec 4, 2022, at St. John St. John Baptist Church. Warnock is running against Herschel Walker for one of Georgia's two U.S. Senate seats. - photo by Scott Rogers

12052022 WARNOCK 4.jpg — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock makes a campaign stop Sunday, Dec 4, 2022, at St. John St. John Baptist Church. Warnock is running against Herschel Walker for one of Georgia's two U.S. Senate seats. - photo by Scott Rogers

When I was a news director in Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas, in the mid-‘90s we covered the race between incumbent Congressman Jack Brooks and Steve Stockman. The 21-term Brooks lost the race. We asked Brooks why he thought he lost.