Dumb Even By wrote:
Ossoff might actually win
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Dumb Even By wrote:
Ossoff might actually win
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:
Different percentile wrote:So it fact, this is really actually a toss-up district.Yeah, but "on the ground" Atlanta's 6th district has voted heavily Republican to Congress since the 1980s. So, a Democratic loss was likely.
Which makes the Democrats look even more insane for dumping a record amount of money into the Ossoff campaign.
laughing my Ossoff wrote:
So Fagpole predicted another win and went humiliated beyond belief.
You can't fix stupid.
Fagpole went home DEVASTATED
Nancy the loon wrote:
pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:Yeah, but "on the ground" Atlanta's 6th district has voted heavily Republican to Congress since the 1980s. So, a Democratic loss was likely.
Which makes the Democrats look even more insane for dumping a record amount of money into the Ossoff campaign.
Cut him some slack. If not for the meddling FBI and the intervening Russians, ossoff would have won. This election was in fact a victory for the Democrats.
Hurl wrote:
Numbers of white nationalists are dropping by the day. Trump nailed the demographic to win the presidency, but his BS and the fact that the demographic is shrinking doesn't help the Republican future.
Oh, wait, I forgot. Republicans will win every single election from now on forever, because Dems are Trannies. Yeah, that's it.
Haha, I agree. That's why I think it is inaccurate to use Trump's electoral results to forecast Republican performance in 2018.
Racehorse wrote:
Dumb Even By wrote:Ossoff might actually win
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Why is it so funny that prior to an election decided by 4 points, someone suggested that one of those candidates might win?
Will Collier wrote:
If you lived in the 6th, you were bombarded by fliers, signs, ads, door-knockers, and most of all, phone calls. At least once a day (and usually more than once), the phone would ring from an out-of-state area code.
First it was robocalls, then the last couple of weeks, call centers. They weren't targeted. They were calling everybody, every day. And they wouldn't take "Go to Hell" for an answer--trust me on this one.
That strategy made sense in the jungle primary: put this nice-looking kid out there, use the money to flood the zone and slip him through the crowded ballot on name recognition.
That was a smart strategy. It very nearly worked--in April.
Back then, Ossoff never uttered the word "Democrat," nor did it appear in his ads. But yesterday, there were only two names and two parties on the ballot.
Karen Handel might as well have her name next to "Generic Republican" in the dictionary. Ossoff, thanks to the media blitz on both sides, might as well have had "Nancy Pelosi" on his ballot.
Trump is not popular here, and I doubt he ever will be... But "unpopular" is not the same as "toxic." Leftie media types started griping yesterday about the GOP putting Pelosi in anti-Ossoff ads.
There's good reason for that: she's toxic everywhere except hard-Left enclaves.
GA06 is a lot of things, but hard Left isn't one. Pelosi, her caucus and its nutball fan club are about as disliked as Notre Dame football around here.
pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:
Different percentile wrote:So it fact, this is really actually a toss-up district.Yeah, but "on the ground" Atlanta's 6th district has voted heavily Republican to Congress since the 1980s. So, a Democratic loss was likely.
The district has changed quite a bit in the last couple of years. A lot of new money, Dem voters have moved here. Today, most say it is a slight Dem lean.
Yes I live here and the amount of ads on tv, radio, signs and even internet has been insane. People constantly canvassing your neighborhood and knocking on your door trying to convince you who to vote for. However I am glad it is over and glad that Handel won. And the comment earlier about Soccer Moms(D) vs Retirees(R) is just not true. This is a very young district being the North Atlanta Suburbs not that many retirees and in fact most of the "soccer moms" in East Cobb and North Fulton are heavily for Handel. No surprise Handel won even with all the ads and signs heavily for Ossoff.
Yeah, no surprise other than a 20-point going to 4-point gap using a Democratic candidate placeholder in a district that's been Repub forever. If this was an experiment to see how how to turn over several seats, I'd say it was beyond a success.
We'll see next year.
$176 each wrote:
And (re)counting votes is art wrote:Now under 10000 and 4%. The mail-in is trending heavily Ossoff. He may be able to demand a recount yet.
Karen Handel (Republican) 51.9% 134,595
Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 48.1% 124,893
So he spent $22 million for 125K votes?
And now he's calling for campaign finance reform, claiming that the overwhelming amount of money that’s been spent supporting my candidacy has come from small-dollar donors ($50 or less). He also thinks the the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Congressional Leadership Fund are "anonymous", while presumably Hollywood/Soros-surrogates are not.
MARTIN: How do you feel about the money that’s been spent on this campaign? The Atlanta Journal Constitution published a calculation that said you and your opponent have spent or reserved over $40 million for TV and radio ads. Does that disturb you? What does it say about our political culture?
OSSOFF: The role of money in politics is a major problem and particularly the role of unchecked anonymous money. There have been super PACs in Washington who have been putting up tens of millions of dollars of attack ads in air for months now. When you have that kind of an environment, it’s necessary to raise the resources to fight back. I’m proud of the fact that my campaign has raised that money in small-dollar contributions, on average less than $50.
MARTIN: Although, it was your party that started the big spending. The Atlanta Journal Constitution also found your campaign and groups supporting it spent about $2 million more in ad spending than Handel during the runoff.
OSSOFF: Well, the overwhelming majority of money spent supporting my opponent has come from super PACs in Washington. And the overwhelming amount of money that’s been spent supporting my candidacy has come from small-dollar donors. But there’s no question that money in politics is a major problem, which is one of the reasons that we need campaign finance reform so that candidates and campaigns will spend more time talking to voters and discussing the issues and less time raising money.
Let's talk about Russia, plz wrote:
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https://twitter.com/funder/status/877352640413388800?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Such. Fuggin. Douche. Bags.
Every single day of 2017 has been so awesome.
Precious Roy wrote:
The 6th District in Georgia is very white and wealthy northern suburb of Atlanta. It should be the "shooting fish in a barrel" race for Republicans thanks to gerrymandering. Same for the other special elections to fill vacancies brought about by cabinet appointments. Every president always fills his cabinet with people from very safe congressional seats. Trump did the same.
The fact that Democrats are now becoming competitive in what should be heavily gerrymandered Republican districts should be scaring the pants off of Republicans. Trump's white nationalism means that Republicans will have no chance of turning any district that leans Democratic. That means Republicans will have everything to lose and nothing to gain in the 2018 midterms.
Classic spin after a loss. Dems threw the kitchen sink at this and lost. 6x1 outspending the GOP candidate who was a nobody
Let's talk about Russia, plz wrote:
https://twitter.com/funder/status/877352640413388800?
Actually, Trump's lawyer says he's *not* under investigation. Last time the media/Trump had a spitting war, it turns out (as Comey admitted) that Trump was right (was literally told three times that he was not personally under investigation).
It's also a bit hard to obstruct justice when you are giving orders as the boss of the person alleged to be obstructed (unlike Bill Clinton, who allegedly encouraged Lewinsky to file a false affidavit, offering her gifts/jobs, and also allegedly tampered with the witness Currie).
We are rising and will be rolling back the 64 voting rights act one step at a time.
hey libs, its are district an we can register who we want for voteing. if you want to let illegals and blacks vote up there thats yore'r rite but we get to chose in are district. fck vote rites
Post-mortem analysis wrote:
Few others left to blame wrote:Will the big loser (finally) be Pelosi??
Yep, Pelosi seems to have been the drag that cost Ossoff the victory.
Nancy Pelosi was a huge drag on Ossoff. The most prominent and effective hit on the Democratic candidate was to tie him to the congresswoman from San Francisco.
Even her Hollywood friends are calling for her to go. If that donor spigot dries up, what does she bring?
https://twitter.com/cher/status/877653986857201664Live here wrote:
pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:Yeah, but "on the ground" Atlanta's 6th district has voted heavily Republican to Congress since the 1980s. So, a Democratic loss was likely.
The district has changed quite a bit in the last couple of years. A lot of new money, Dem voters have moved here. Today, most say it is a slight Dem lean.
?? Not according to the election results.
Hurl wrote:
Yeah, no surprise other than a 20-point going to 4-point gap using a Democratic candidate placeholder in a district that's been Repub forever. If this was an experiment to see how how to turn over several seats, I'd say it was beyond a success.
We'll see next year.
Haha this is such a transparent and desperate last-ditch effort to pretend it wasn't a devastating loss for Democrats.
How embarrassing for your party.