GA-6 Special election discussion thread

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Even if Karen Handel ends up winning this seat, the sheer closeness of an election in a district Tom Price won with 60% of the vote should scare Republicans.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Any idea that Jon Ossoff is basically the pinnacle of hope for all red state Dems in 2018? Kind of like how Scott Brown was for blue state Republicans in 2010?

Not at all.  There are quite a few bluer districts than GA-6 that are currently held by Republicans.

There were a lot of Senate seats up for reelection in 2010 that were D-held and redder than Massachusetts. Doesn't mean the Republicans won them.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Any idea that Jon Ossoff is basically the pinnacle of hope for all red state Dems in 2018? Kind of like how Scott Brown was for blue state Republicans in 2010?

Not at all.  There are quite a few bluer districts than GA-6 that are currently held by Republicans.

There were a lot of Senate seats up for reelection in 2010 that were D-held and redder than Massachusetts. Doesn't mean the Republicans won them.

I don't get your point.  Certainly they didn't win all of them, but they did flip six seats that year; four open seats (IL, IN, ND, PA) and two where they defeated D incumbents (AR/Lincoln and WI/Feingold) -- all without losing any R-held seats.   That was clearly a great year for the GOP.

Yeah, but I'm just saying you should be cautious in trying to extrapolate the Georgia 6 results as simplistically as saying that since Dems got X% in GA-6, they'd get X+10% in some other district that voted 10% more Democratic than GA-6 in 2016. The 2018 election is over a year and a half away, and a lot of things can happen by then. That's all I'm saying.