Asymmetry at work wrote:
This race means EVERYTHING is Ossoff wins (rebuke of Trump), and very little if Handel wins. Comparatively, the 2018 Senate will be largely tilted with so many Dems trying to defend seats.
A loss will only be $30 million or so down the drain (much of it from Hollywood anyway). Hillary burned through 30x or more than that in losing.
asdfasfads wrote:
There is a reason why old people vote at higher rates. They are free when poles are open and don't have anything better to do.
The race is, as expected, tightening a bit as well. With a little more than 126,000 votes in, Handel still leads with 50.4 percent of the vote to Ossoff’s 49.6 percent.
Our Democrat friend who’s supporting Ossoff tells us that the the person who did the best outreach to seniors likely will win.
trollism wrote:
He'll regret that if he loses by one vote.
Currently a margin of six.
https://twitter.com/GottaLaff/status/877317334842605568Both Dana Bash and Anderson Cooper, on CNN, say President Trump has every right to take a victory lap if Karen Handel wins.
https://decisiondeskhq.com/results/georgia-sixth-congressional-district-special/Candidate Percent Votes
Karen Handel (Republican) 51.0% 70,210
Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 49.0% 67,374
137,584 Total Votes
pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:
Live from Ossoff HQ Central wrote:If she does pull it off, expect the left and media to go absolutely bonkers.
A Republican candidate winning in a heavily Republican district. What's bonkers about that?
It seems like you are the one going bonkers.
Actually, the demographics of the district have changed a lot in the past few years. Lots of affluent Dems have moved in. Nowhere near a Repub stronghold.
Turning into a rout. She's up by 3000+ now.
Karen Handel (Republican) 51.1% 77,598
Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 48.9% 74,168
So now they are saying it's NOT a referendum on Trump, but on health care. Next it will be about Paris.
Time to change the subject wrote:
Turning into a rout. She's up by 3000+ now.
Karen Handel (Republican) 51.1% 77,598Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 48.9% 74,168
So now they are saying it's NOT a referendum on Trump, but on health care. Next it will be about Paris.
Looks like Dems are going home DEVASTATED in SC too (but a "moral victory" will be declared, of course).
https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/877326591445024769Time to change the subject wrote:
Turning into a rout. She's up by 3000+ now.
Karen Handel (Republican) 51.1% 77,598Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 48.9% 74,168
So now they are saying it's NOT a referendum on Trump, but on health care. Next it will be about Paris.
Yep, over 4000+
Karen Handel (Republican) 51.4% 78,574
Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 48.6% 74,276
Time to change the subject wrote:
Yep, over 4000+
Karen Handel (Republican) 51.4% 78,574Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 48.6% 74,276
Accelerating to 6000+
Karen Handel (Republican) 51.9% 85,316
Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 48.1% 79,121
Time to change the subject wrote:
Time to change the subject wrote:Yep, over 4000+
Accelerating to 6000+
Karen Handel (Republican) 51.9% 85,316
Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 48.1% 79,121
Warp speed to 10000+ !!
Karen Handel (Republican) 52.6% 96,130
Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 47.4% 86,531
182,661 Total Votes
Ain't gonna be a RECOUNT wrote:
Warp speed to 10000+ !!
Karen Handel (Republican) 52.6% 96,130Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 47.4% 86,531
182,661 Total Votes
Umm no, that's still under 10,000....
Not the primary anymore wrote:
Looks like Dems are going home DEVASTATED in SC too (but a "moral victory" will be declared, of course).
https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/877332240627228673Ralph Norman (Republican) 50.8% 39,736
Archie Parnell (Democratic) 48.2% 37,646
Josh Thornton (American) 0.4% 291
Victor Kocher (Libertarian) 0.3% 229
David Kulma (Green) 0.3% 216
Write In (Unaffiliated) 0.1% 56
Live from Ossoff HQ Central wrote:
The Root reporter Jason Johnson, reporting on MSNBC live from Ossoff’s headquarters, is already predicting a Handel win tonight. If she does pull it off, expect the left and media to go absolutely bonkers.
https://twitter.com/DrJasonJohnson/status/877308920670433280
Can we imagine for a momebt the outrage if a white volunteer referred to a candidate as a "black boy"
Not the primary anymore wrote:
Looks like Dems are going home DEVASTATED in SC too (but a "moral victory" will be declared, of course).
And why not?? Parnell was down by 10 pts just a few weeks ago, and if Trump's circus had gone on even another day or two, the result might be different.
You ain't good at math wrote:
Umm no, that's still under 10,000....
Over 10000+ now.
Karen Handel (Republican) 52.7% 97,202
Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 47.3% 87,155
184,357 Total Votes
Still have some mail-ins to count, which are hoped to be a "game changer" according to Dem boffins.
I'm still waiting for people to tel me why we care what happens in any of these 435 districts.
To me it shows the country is screwed as we shouldn't care which party is winning. We should care about the country. The republicans aren't unified enough anyway for trump to do what he wants so I don't get why the dems are so scared.
Now over a 6% margin.
Karen Handel (Republican) 53.2% 104,223
Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 46.8% 91,657
In the run-up the district was described benevolently by lib media
“The results of a single special election aren’t enough on their own to reliably predict what will happen in the upcoming 2018 midterms. But Georgia’s affluent, well-educated, and suburban, sixth congressional district fits the profile of the kind of districts Democrats may need to flip if they want to regain control of the House of Representatives,†wrote Clare Foran in the globalist-leaning magazine The Atlantic.
Wonder if now it will just be a bunch of knuckle-dragging loservilles.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/georgia-special-election-jon-ossoff-karen-handel-trump/530880/Not even the Muzzies liked him.
Pardon my colloquiality wrote:
Not even the Muzzies liked him.
Here's the whole Tweet chain:
Falafel Dad wrote:
Jon Ossoff came to my mosque Friday. He didnt try to win our vote, he just had a professional camera crew taking pics of him with hijabis.
Ossoff didn't really need to promise anything or work for our vote bc all the petty bourgeois Brown Muslim Americans were fawning over him.
He didn't explain his policies. Just that we should have our phones out already before we approach him for pics to expedite the process.
He also came into our mosque w two huge bodyguards who were very clear with mosque-goers about how we are allowed to approach Jon Ossoff
He didn't promise that he'd stand against "anti-terrorism" legislation which surveils Muslim communities and entraps youth in terror plots
He didn't promise to stand against legislation which makes nonviolent resistance (Boycott/Divestment of Israeli goods and services) illegal.
He didn't promise to stand w grassroots working against gentrification. There's a mosque 5 minutes from turner field, set to be displaced.
Jon Ossoff basically told us 2 things.
1. Vote for me because "Trump"
2. Have your phones already out for pics, we only have 5 minutes left.