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The Night The Polls Closed In Georgia
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Here’s your thread for our $51 million House race in George, the most expensive in history (polls are now closed). Referendum on Trump? Join us now in Comments
Hell yes unless the creepy woman wins
Ha, KGC, your own theory of relativity?
The woman will probably win. I doubt Georgia would send a queer to Washington.
Inappropriate Zebelon74. We don’t talk that way here. Please use the edit button.
51.4% GOP
48.6% Dem
26% precincts reporting
mostly early voting so far, which was expected to advantage Dems
Dem takes lead 50.7%
still just early votes
yeah, can’t see Georgia electing anyone but an ignorant goober, but then one never knows……
CNN reporting Handel up by almost 3%. Damn
Sturg, smart money is on ignorant goober.
Thinking that this is too big a hill for dems. To climb. That said a president with an approval rating in the thirties is sure as Hell a poor way to shore up the base.
Prediction. Long night of vote counting longer day of recounting
53-47 gop 65% reporting
http://www.wsbtv.com/election-results
Ouch!
So much for the Trump effect??
next time Dems run somebody who lives there
Dems. Need to learn how to vote on Election Day. Early voting is great but still need folks in the streets on Election Day
Craig,
Amen. Living there is always a really good start.
At 65%, Handel’s up by 5.2. Dammit, dammit, dammit.
Now at 80% Handel’s up by 4. Ossoff’s 10,000 votes behind.
Jace: “Dems. Need to learn …”
You could have stopped right there. Will they ever learn? I can hear it now: they’re going to congratulate themselves on how close it was, blame everyone and everything but themselves, revert to their usual collective amnesia, delusional predictions, and then do it all over again. Until the only Democrats left on Capitol Hill are in the Hall of Statues.
Ossoff loses and makes it even clearer how important the Supremes are in taking up gerrymandering to favor a party.
Jace, Craig – It didn’t help that Berniebros & Trumpsters were madly dissing Ossoff for not being “pure enough”.
AP: GOP’s Handel wins House seat in Georgia special election
How can women college graduates vote for Trump’s surrogate? This election result is more depressing than events of the last four months under Trump administration. It feels like the American voter in four out of four special elections believe that Trump is an ok dictator savaging the Constitution and that he can do absolutely what he wants from grabbing pussy, provoking violence, denying health care to millions, enriching his pocketbook. Nothing is out of bounds for the American Mussolini. Give him his brown shirt with hundreds of medals and a stylized MAGA military hat and get it over with. Unbelieve results!
Jamie, the Republicans control SCOTUS, too. We have a one party dictatorship now. Get used to it! Even if trump goes Pence is sitting in the wings waiting to inherit the brown shirt with medals and hat.
I get your pain eProf, but consider that we have an opposition party of such monumental incompetence they might as well be on the dictator’s payroll.
They are but Not directly but through corporations who buy folks from both sides of the aisle.
Craig
Got to disagree, Close in this district is a win. It means that some of the Gerrymandered districts that have a strong minority democrat are in danger for the Republicans. When solid Republican districts are in play as this one was it is a sure sign that Republicans can be beat. This was one election in a district where 6 months ago the Republican carried it by 20%. In 6 months there was a 15% decline for the Republicans. If this holds up in 2018 it will be a wave election. 2018 is a long way off so it probably won’t but one can dream.
Until then, pop the cork and celebrate!!
Jack
LOL
Goodness, did you all really believe a Democrat could win a solid Republican district?
Grow up. Politics is a rough sport the Democrats went into the devils lair and grabbed old Nick by the beard. It was a good night,
But get real, come 2018 there are 345 seats up for grab and a lot of them way more vulnerable than this one.
Jack
Good luck with that Whsky. Me thinks you’ll be writing just that after Dems screw up in 2018. Not saying what you’re saying shouldn’t be true. I’m saying the people in charge of this party cannot make it true.
made some margaritas in the blender tonite, then after Mrs jack went to bed I decided to do one more over ice the way I like them. But I didn’t have simple syrup, so I substituted with maple syrup. It is quite tasty or I’m too drunk. I may try it sober. But mean time , what do you call a drink that has an orange flavored brandy liquor from Canada, tequila from Mexico and Maple syrup from New York state? Nafta?
Jack
EProf2, thanks. ?
Craig,
2018 is a long way down the road.
The problem you liberal Democrats have is you can’t celebrate your victories when you have them.
Jack
so what if Dems lose by less than usual? Somebody explain to me how that matters.
oh no whsky, what I see is libs celebrating losses as victories, almost like abuse victims thankful they don’t have to go to the emergency room (even tho they probably should).
$51 million that could’ve been spent helping folks. Too bad we can’t take the money out of elections.
Craig
It was not a loss because it was never in your win column. once the national Republican machine cranked up it’s get out the vote effort beating HRC’s numbers is a victory. closing with in 5 pts is a victory.
As I said Celebrate you had a win even if you didn’t take the seat.
Jack
BiD
It did help some folks, remember that money went into the Georgia economy, they didn’t just set it on fire and burn it up. It put beans on the table of quite a few people, even poor folks.
Jack
funny how Dems now say they were never gonna win this race. The suckers they duped into pouring millions into it must be pissed.
Craig
The fact that liberal Democrats pour an obscene amount of money into a Republican district says more about the state of the left wing of the Democratic party than it does about winners or losers in this election. This election was always a long shot those that thought different were just fooling themselves.
Jack
Bed time, lot of work to do tomorrow, it is going to be hot(just stepped out side it still is) and I have to work outside.
Night
Jack
whsky, for Dems to win back the House in 2018 there are roughly 75 or more GOP held districts potentially favorable to them where they need a far better performance among white voters than I’m guessing they did in this one. Dems will probably ignore this but hey, denial is a just river in Egypt.
Good night friend. We can always argue tomorrow.
Whiskey
You and I are on the team with this one. Until we can get a law out of the Supremes that bans this action, the key in these close districts is turnout. A line just a couple of miles down the road would not only have included Ossoff, but the much more liberal area in which he and the fiancé live.
I’m no Cillizza fan, but this is a pretty good article on the GA 6 election
In Georgia, close isn’t nearly good enough for Democrats
from wapo: Ossoff chose civility and it didn’t work. How do Democrats beat Trump?
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Jeff Jacobson epitomizes the liberal conundrum: Deep down he wanted to back a warrior, but he found himself working for a high priest preaching civil resistance.
[….]
So Ossoff chose the high priest route instead of the fierce warrior. It was civil disobedience rather than civil unrest. And he still lost, by an even wider margin than the almost forgotten Parnell.
On the eve of the vote, Jacobson acknowledged that there were times he wanted Ossoff to be more of a fighter.
“Sometimes my wife and I are a little frustrated, but if that’s who he is, that’s who he is. He’s not getting down and dirty,” he said Monday.
[….]
Meanwhile, in this race in Georgia, the most unpopular Republican in the country remained a major presence but not in terms of the messages from either candidate. Handel largely avoided discussing the latest controversies spawned by Trump’s actions, and Ossoff only indirectly mentioned Trump, going out of his way to say that he was willing work with the president if it delivered results.
Privately, Democratic strategists said even before the votes were counted Tuesday that Ossoff’s civility campaign would be mirrored only in more Republican-leaning districts, and that a more aggressive anti-Trump campaign would be waged by candidates in longtime swing districts.
The question that remains to be answered is whether Democrats need more warriors or more priests; complete resistance or civil resistance.
https://youtu.be/1nDq1HoNm-E