Georgia Special Election Goes to Runoff as GOP Gets Wakeup Call

[murielm99]

Source: CNN

The special election for Georgia's 6th Congressional District will go to a runoff in June, CNN projects, as no candidate secured 50% or more of the vote.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/politics/georgia-house-6th-special-election-jon-ossoff/index.html

[Dawson Leery]

1. kick

[DUgosh]

2. K& r

[Txbluedog]

3. They'll win the seat in June

[MFM008]

16. Buzzkill

Who says. Anything can happen.

[Txbluedog]

23. No just being realistic

It's a reliably republican seat and every deplorable will come out and vote for their only choice

[iluvtennis]

4. That's just CNN's projection. Let's wait until the remaining 33% of the votes are counted...

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http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/67317/Web02-state/#/

[cstanleytech]

9. Aye until its officially announced this is just speculation and there is still a very good chance

that he may well still win.

[SunSeeker]

5. The polls had Ossoff at 45%. If he ends up with 48% that is still more than expected.

That is momentum. With enough Dem turnout in June, Ossoff could win.

[leftynyc]

21. That was my thought as well

His polling had him at 46 and he wound up with 48.3 - for a district Gingrich used to rep. We need 24 seats, in 23 seats, republicans won the seat but Hillary won those districts so they're less reliably republican than that Georgia seat. I really didn't think we had a chance to win the House but now I'm more confident about that possibility.

[iluvtennis]

6. 'Technical Difficulties' Slow Vote Tabulation In Georgia's Sixth District

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/04/technical-difficulties-slow-vote

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Only info about what the difficulties were is the tweet above. Wow, sounds like MI, WI, Penn all over again. GOP'ers are indeed crooked

[iluvtennis]

7. Ossoff at 49% with 84% Reporting 177 of 210 Precincts

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[quakerboy]

13. Ah, rounding

48.613

Needs 2526 votes to hit 50%

[iluvtennis]

8. It's amazing that the vote counting machines have difficulties with Fulton county- John Lewis'...

..district. As I said before, sound like MI all over again where 11 vote counting machines failed with Detroit and surrounding counties to count. Something is smelly here.

Link to tweet

[SunSeeker]

11. He's at 49% WITHOUT Atlanta?! That is pretty freaking good!

Now we just need to make sure Atlanta is counted honestly and correctly!

[LeftInTX]

14. It's a red area of Fulton County

Nate Cohn showed it in a tweet.

[videohead5]

10. Ossoff

Got more votes than all of the Republicans put together so I do not understand the claim that it will be easy for the Republican to win this runoff in June?...

[murielm99]

12. I don't think it will be easy.

By June, if we are not nuclear ash, there will be even more backlash against 45 and all he represents. I don't care how much money the repubbies throw at it.

[notdarkyet]

17. Yep. Budget showdown coming up. Trump is going to go nuclear, not literally I hope, when he finds

Out he isn't getting his big beautiful wall.

[Hortensis]

20. 11 pub candidates split the vote, Videohead. In June voters

will have 2 choices: Republican or Democrat. But who knows? Ossoff'll also be able to use the negatives of one opponent against her, and Rump and Congress will have had another couple months to betray the expectations of their voters and alarm them and others.

[Sunlei]

29. because all the republicans will only vote for one R in run off.

[Maraya1969]

15. All I'm saying is if he has to go to a run off we Dems should

throw out massive attack adds

These people fight dirty. I think we should do so to to. Take a lesson from their playbook

[MarcA]

18. Just put out the truth. I think it was Truman

who said something to the effect that he just told the truth and they thought
he was fighting dirty.

[mdbl]

22. would be nice to see Georgia do something good for itself

instead of voting in these right-wing morons bent on serving themselves.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. Ossoff

bested HRC's numbers by 1.2 to 1.6% county by county

Dems need 3-5k+ votes to seal the deal in June

[iluvtennis]

26. We can do that...just need more high intensity get out the vote efforts.

[Valhallakey]

25. So close, flip a few votes in the machine

and R will win in June by a couple percentage points, happens every time. Or they may let this one go as in reality it will have little impact in the house.

[Orsino]

27. Will be interesting to note...

...if his opponent feels a need to do some hasty Trump-distancing between now and then.

[SunSeeker]

30. She already has.

That is why she got in the run off. The ones who wrapped themselves around Trump, like Gray, ended up in the single digits.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

28. The next few months will be a nightmare for the people in that district.

Robocalls, media adverts, mailings, squads of people pressing door buzzards. Everyone from this Bozo to the Koch brothers will be sending money to intrude on the residents' quiet times.

The horror.