Cinema avoids a primary, Georgia may avoid future runoffs, and McCarthy can't avoid a challenge.

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Thanks for joining us, and welcome to episode 397 of the political junkie.

I'm Ken Rudin.

For those political junkies and journalists whose thanksgivings, Christmases, and New Year's

have been disrupted the past couple of years, there may be a solution in sight.

Brad Raffensberger, the Georgia Secretary of State, best known for turning down Donald Trump's request

to find enough vote for him to win the state, has called for the end of runoffs in Georgia's general

elections. He said the runoffs have been brutal on election officials,

whose family holidays were interrupted and whose workload became exhausting. The 2020 Senate runoffs,

which extended into January of 2021, were won by Democrats Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff,

and were responsible for the party to win control of

the Senate. This year's Senate runoff, won by Warnock over Republican Herschel Walker, was decided

on December 6th. At least the Christmas and New Year's holidays were spared by having the

contest a month earlier than it was last year.

The general election runoff system in Georgia, mandated when no candidate received 50% of the vote,

was originally designed, written, and passed by segregationists to hurt black candidates in a one-on-one

contest. Later, as the Republican Party grew in the South and in Georgia,

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