GA-6 Special election discussion thread

[MAINEiac4434]

This is a possible pick up but it will be razor close. it will most likely flip back to R in 2020.

Why not in November 2018? It's special after all...

If there's a D wave it might stick in 2018.

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Handel: End Muslim Immigration

she's an idiot. this would be a good strategy in a district that trump did well in but not in this district. plz someone who isnt sucky run

Jon Ossoff's already declared

[MAINEiac4434]

Go Jon!

[MAINEiac4434]

I'm interested in this race, because for one, it will provide a glimpse into how people closer to my age (that is, those who have grown up with the internet and have lengthy, often embarrassing digital trails) will be attacked in a political campaign. If early indications are to go by, said attacks will be spineless and awful.

That being said, I do believe Ossoff will pull out a squeaker, but I think he'll likely lose in 2018. Still, it will provide a good springboard for his career going forward.

(Also, he's pretty cute imo)

Agree to disagree on this one.

Even in this picture?

He's cute but he looks vaguely sociopathic in that pic for some reason...

[MAINEiac4434]

Would Ossoff be the youngest member of Congress if he wins?

Yes. He's younger than current Baby of the House Elise Stefanik.

[MAINEiac4434]

"The fear is definitely out there" among some Republican strategists that Ossoff could top 50% on the first ballot.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/georgia-special-election-tom-price-seat-jon-ossoff-236703

"The fear is definitely out there" among some Republican strategists that Ossoff could top 50% on the first ballot.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/georgia-special-election-tom-price-seat-jon-ossoff-236703

Ossoff 2024? holy sh**t bro. Reading that just made me grin from ear to ear.

Stop, stop, please...I can't get optimistic about politics again...it's too heartbreaking...

[MAINEiac4434]

I'm amazed how they don't have anything on Ossoff.

Should they? I can’t imagine he’s had time to accumulate many skeletons in his political closet.

He's a millennial, I expected someone to uncover his Reddit account by now.

[MAINEiac4434]

I mean have the party leaders (Pelosi, Schumer, Trent Lott, Frist, McConnell) ever been popular?

No, because they're easy targets for the opposition. If Tim Ryan won, Fox News would be airing wall-to-wall coverage of how he's a "radical liberal" with "extremist links" and his disapprovals would be equal wit Pelosi in a matter of days.

Pelosi is extremely good at whipping her party (which is why the party has been mostly united in opposition to Trump's agenda). She gets far too much stick in my opinion.

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Democrats had an advantage in early voting for 11 days, which suggests that most of their voters have already voted by now. There is also the fact that not every Republican showing up is voting for a Republican.

Basically, don't be surprised if Ossoff's winning the early vote, but he could very easily get shredded by election day vote.

Yeah, this has all the makings of a canabilized Election Day vote.

[MAINEiac4434]

Samuel L. Jackson cut a radio ad for the DCCC that will play on Urban Radio in the Atlanta Metro

Disappointed at the lack of "motherfuckers" in that.

[MAINEiac4434]

Does anyone have links to the results?

[MAINEiac4434]

DDHQ is normally pretty quick at updating.

https://decisiondeskhq.com/results/georgia-6th-congressional-district-ga06-special-election-primary/

Results won't be long now.

[MAINEiac4434]

UGH GIMME RESULTSSSS

IT'S BEEN THREE WHOLE MINUTES I NEED MY FIX

[MAINEiac4434]

last second ass-pull prediction

Ossoff: 54%
Hill: 13%
Gray: 11%
Handel: 10%
Moody: 8%
others: 5%

please god

[MAINEiac4434]

WE WANT RESULTS AND WE WANT THEM NOW.

CAN I GET A HELL YEA FROM ATLASERS?

HELL YEAH!

[MAINEiac4434]

this is going to be a super-boring night and then we need two wait nearly 2 months.....

It's okay, we have the French election in a few days.

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BREAKING: Silver Lake in DeKalb reports. Ossoff with 50.5% of 1284 ballots cast. Hillary at 51.5%.

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This guy on Twitter is literally posting pictures of voter machine receipts before results are posted in the vote count:

https://twitter.com/conorsen

is that legal?

Probably not but idc.

[MAINEiac4434]

Fulton just dumped, Ossoff ahead in almost every precinct.

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A whole bunch more just dumped. Ossoff at 62% with 32,000 votes. No one else has 10,000.

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Man, the non-Ossoff Democrats are almost 1% of the vote right now - I swear if they Nader this election and force a runoff...

They should be expelled from the party.

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BREAKING: Ashford Parkside in DeKalb reports. Ossoff with 52.4% of 1038 votes cast. Hillary was 57.0%.

According to 538, he needs almost 59% there

Is that 52.4% ED only, or EV+ED?

That Ashford Parkside Ossoff result is ED only. The Hillary result is EV+ED.

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Some more DeKalb numbers (ED) just came in. Now:

Jon Ossoff (Democratic)    62.2%   33,302
Karen Handel (Republican)    14.6%   7,812
Dan Moody (Republican)    8.6%   4,603
Bob Gray (Republican)    5.9%   3,172
Judson Hill (Republican)    5.4%   2,908

The election day numbers pushed him up. He was at 62% on EV alone.

[MAINEiac4434]

Some more DeKalb numbers (ED) just came in. Now:

Jon Ossoff (Democratic)    62.2%   33,302
Karen Handel (Republican)    14.6%   7,812
Dan Moody (Republican)    8.6%   4,603
Bob Gray (Republican)    5.9%   3,172
Judson Hill (Republican)    5.4%   2,908

The election day numbers pushed him up. He was at 62% on EV alone.

He's down to 61.5% on the NY Times.

On DDHQ he's at 62.2% with identical numbers.

[MAINEiac4434]

Some more DeKalb numbers (ED) just came in. Now:

Jon Ossoff (Democratic)    62.2%   33,302
Karen Handel (Republican)    14.6%   7,812
Dan Moody (Republican)    8.6%   4,603
Bob Gray (Republican)    5.9%   3,172
Judson Hill (Republican)    5.4%   2,908

The election day numbers pushed him up. He was at 62% on EV alone.

He's down to 61.5% on the NY Times.

On DDHQ he's at 62.2% with identical numbers.

I'd trust NY Times more (no, not because they have Ossoff at a lower percentage)

It's strange, NY Times has the total votes at 54,107 while DDHQ has their total votes at 53,558. That's what's causing the discrepancy.

EDIT: NY Times has a bunch of votes for Gray that DDHQ does not have. All the other numbers are the same.