GA-06 and SC-05 election day & results thread

[cinyc]

DDHQ calls GA-06 for Handel.

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

The people who swung heavily to the Dems in 2006/2008 Congressional races are no longer willing to, because muh culture war. Country is too polarized.

[Kamala]

DDHQ calls it for Handel

May she keep her seat till January of 2019.

[Suburbia]

Ossoff should run again.

[Pyro]

Anyone recall the Quist-Gianforte thread when a dozen or so users assured us that running a Clintonite centrist instead of a populist was this magic elixir that could win over GA-06 a la John Bel Edwards? If Democrats continue to pursue the same trodden path they did in 2016, there's no shot in hell they manifest some "blue tide" in two years.

So if the populist in MT lost and the Clintonite in GA lost, then which Democrat wins?

They need a fundamental shift to energize independents.
Either retire the leadership and the centrist "ACA and the Economy are Great As-Is!" messaging or wait for GOP meltdown.

[Horus]

Looks like it'll be 52-48 Handel. Called it.

[TheSaint250]

Pretty much every single prediction I've made this year has been wrong (and has been since Brexit), including Ossoff winning.

[BuckeyeNut]

Anyone who thought Ossoff could win this was kidding themselves. There was a small chance, but ACHA wasn't brought up enough. His only real shot was winning outright in the jungle, and it didn't happen.

[Adam Griffin]

Can we stop this stupid "Pelosi" meme? Even veteran GOP strategists have said that the Pelosi attack angle has produced ZERO proof of improving GOP vote-share in elections like these. There's virtually nobody who's going to bother voting in a mid-term or special election who both a) doesn't know who Pelosi is and b) suddenly hear about her and go "oh, now I have to vote". Think logically.

I think losing elections over and over again is all the proof you need. Why Democrats didn't turn Handel into "the woman who supports killing cancer patients" is lost on me

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Correlation =/= causation, especially with such a loose one. "Oh somebody's in an insignificant office that 99.8% of the country has never voted for/against so that's why were losing". Maybe - just maybe - we're losing because of other, substantive reasons?

We lost GA-6 because it's filled with Southern suburbanites who decided to vote how they've always voted.

[BlueDogDemocrat]

CNN Called it

[Suburbia]

Republican Karen Handel wins the GA-06 congressional special election.

[Suburbia]

Ossoff should run again in 2018.

[Former Senator Haslam2020]

Wtf happened to the Mail ins from Dekalb?

[TheSaint250]

I knew something like this was coming. Republicans gerrymander. Everyone does. Not one gives a s*** about fairness when you can give your party control of the country.

The Democrat party gerrymandered us from the 1960s thru 1994 and they are squealing when we retaliate.

There was an article from the 1980 how the Dems gerrymandering saved them from losing the house

Do you have it? I'd like to see it

[Del Tachi]

Ossoff should run again.

Please no.

[Roronoa D. Law]

GA-06 could be VA-10 in a few cycles.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Once again, the resistance falls short.

[DrScholl]

Special elections don't always reflect what will happen in the midterm and there are plenty of Republicans in Clinton districts that will probably lose next year. GA-6 is a Republican gerrymander, anyway and it functioned just as it was intended to tonight. It could flip next year, though.

[swf541]

The people who swung heavily to the Dems in 2006/2008 Congressional races are no longer willing to, because muh culture war. Country is too polarized.

This isnt a good post or reaction we gained a ton in margins in both seats vs congressional 2016 results, not naitonalizing seats and running actual local candidates would probably help in seats like GA-06

[Brittain33]

I'm glad I mourned this one over the weekend when it looked like Rs were going to show up for Handel.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Special elections don't always reflect what will happen in the midterm and there are plenty of Republicans in Clinton districts that will probably lose next year. GA-6 is a Republican gerrymander, anyway and it functioned just as it was intended to tonight. It could flip next year, though.

When are you guys actually going to start winning anything?

[Thomas Jackson]

Once again, the resistance falls short.

Yep!

[Chief Justice Keef]

I'm tired of losing by only a few points. SOMETHING'S gotta change. Whether that be the messaging, the leadership, or the candidates.

[DrScholl]

Ossoff should run again.

Please no.

Why not? He came close in a traditionally Republican district and rematches do often result in reversal. It probably will be open next year anyway, because Handel will probably run for Governor being that she is constantly chasing power.

[GlobeSoc]

Once again, the resistance falls short.

Yep!

Nice circle---- you have.