p.m. live coverage at 1:00 eastern on c-span. you can also watch at c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> you're watching c-span, your unfiltered view of government. c-span was created by america's able television companies in 1979. today, we're brought to you by these television companies who provide c-span to viewers as a public service. appreciate yourd more of your calls and comments coming up. greg has been with us a number of times throughout this series of runoff elections. , ashowed the polls recently pull from that reason georgia showing a dead heat. is it really a dead heat in those races? guest: that is where the campaign operatives. a lot of the polls were wrong in

the lead up to november, but the polls in georgia were pretty on target. just about every poll that was reported showed the races effectively tied between biden and trump. when you have a 12,000 or so margin, that is about as close as you can get. is concern over mail-in ballots because of delays with postal service in the land area. guest: there are concerns in general about how long it will take to tally all these mail-in theots, just like in november general. that is why analysts are urging folks to recognize that this race will probably not be cold tonight. it might not even be cold tomorrow. it might be thursday or friday until we have networks and others and the associated press call this race definitively for one ticket or the other. host: what did georgia officials learn from the presidential race

that they are and lamenting in these runoff races -- implementing in these runoff races? a rulebefore, there was saying counties may start processing absentee ballots in the run up to the electoral -- actual election day. last week, they must. counties started processing these. it does not mean they have actually tallied them. it means they went to the behind the scenes process of verifying signatures on absentee ballot envelopes and doing the preliminary things they need to do before they come ballots. there is a hope that the process is smoother this time. there are some problem child. when it comes to elections in fulton county, the county is notoriously slow at counting ballots. usually does not matter much because the election outcomes are usually not that close, but

when you're talking about thousands of votes, it matters a lot more. for: this is a tougher hill democrats to climb. runoff races in the past and georgia have not favor democrats -- in georgia have not favored democrats. guest: republicans have won every runoff election in georgia history. this year, all bets are off. we have seen more than 3 million early votes and a higher rate of african-american turnout then we saw in the general. feel optimistic, cautiously optimistic. republicans have what seems to toan early voting deficit overcome on election day. you wrote yesterday kelly loeffler which challenge electoral college results and announced it yesterday on stage with president trump. what about david perdue? guest: no supplies there at all.

that was a dramatic moment. perdue britto -- senator cannot vote on that. he is technically not in office. expired sunday because these runoffs take nine weeks instead of a few weeks in other states. that means georgia only has one sitting u.s. senator right now. even if david perdue -- even if the election is over tonight, he still cannot be sworn back into office until election results are certified, which is likely to take weeks. host: what is the weather like in georgia today? does a very good turnout? guest: it dies. it is nice. it is 60's in south georgia and 50's in north raja. republicans are heaving a sigh of relief. texts last week saying if it is snow, we are doomed. host: you can follow greg bluestein's