No, Perdue isn't suddenly "winning" just because he's ahead in total votes counted. It just means some more red district votes got reported. If some more blue district votes get reported, Ossoff will go back "ahead"

At this stage, total votes counted is NOT how you gauge things.
There is nothing more misleading on election night than looking at total votes counted. It does not factor in whether the votes counted thus far are mainly coming from red or blue counties. It's the one number you should definitely ignore at this stage.
If you want to gauge the race, look at the which counties have the most votes yet to be reported. Then look at how red or blue those counties are, and calculate which candidate will pick up the most votes from the remaining uncounted pile.
That gets complicated fast, which is how you end up with someone like Steve Kornacki trying to maniacally plow through all that data. But it's the accurate way of gauging the race.

If you just look at total votes counted, you're looking at nonsense numbers that tell you nothing.
Thus far Warnock and Ossoff are still outperforming Biden's November numbers in Georgia by a few points. If that holds up, they'll win. If that falters for some reason, they'll lose. But it all comes down to outperforming.
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