Yes, all things considered he was a good candidate who ran a good campaign, but still lost. There's a lot for Democrats to learn for 2018 and 2020:
1) Republicans will take any little thing and turn it into a campaign-ending scandal, and 90% of the time it's trifling bullsh[inks], whether it's the Clinton email server, Rob Quist smoking marijuana, or Ossoff living a mile outside the district. While it was certainly admirable for Ossoff to want to support his girlfriend while she was in med school, he should have realized this would be a vulnerability and just rented an apartment in the district. If he'd gotten elected, he would have been spending most of his time in DC anyway.
2) Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco are albatrosses around Democrats' necks. I feel torn on this because Pelosi is such an effective floor leader and because the San Francisco of right-wing imagination no longer even exists, but Republicans have irrevocably tarred her as part of a corrupt, out-of-touch establishment. And to be fair, they wouldn't be able to do so effectively if there weren't at least a grain of truth to this.
3) In future jungle primaries, we shouldn't be putting all of our eggs in one basket: a far better strategy is to run an Establishment Dem and a Berniecrat and be gauranteed either a hold or a pickup. The GOP has more factions (religious right, Trumpists, moderates, teabaggers, libertarians, etc.) so their vote will still be split more ways.
4) For the love of god, don't run ads like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIpHdyy2GI8.
5) Democrats need to bring out disengaged younger voters. The easiest way to do this is to support marijuana legalization. Single issue potheads are probably 10% of millennials and 20% of Gen Z. Like it or not, these people see no difference between the parties if you're not giving them their precious weed, and they won't vote. Anyone who strongly feels pot should remain illegal isn't voting Democratic, especially not in a place like GA-6. On a related note, I still think Hillary Clinton would be president right now if she had come out for marijuana legalization and against DAPL.
