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Georgia special election heads to runoff as Ossoff earns 48% of vote
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RPGCrazied
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Yeah, but then its much harder. Its only 1 Republican then and they can all rally around it. His best shot was tonight.
TheCochese
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I told you this a month ago.
wumster3000
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This attitude has to stop.
Do you think Trump signed the America first bill today by coincidence? He did it to have a direct effect on this race. Dems will not flip them all. That's nonsense.
ratcliffja
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All the Republicans would vote for Handel so no. Almost no chance.
plagiarize
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Right, not necessarily. It depends on how close to 50% he is, and if there's more than enough democratic and independent votes out there should all the republicans unify behind Handel.
balladofwindfishes
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By "almost no chance" you mean "a toss up that could go either way"
TheCochese
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Saying it would be a tossup completely ignores the demographics here.
People may not like Trump, but there's still going to be a contestant with an R behind their name.
I live here. It was his best shot.
Isn't Cobb where he's expected to do badly?
Herr Schwarz
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There's still a chance but he's gottah get those numbers back up. Da fuq are the democrats
Not sure why people keep saying this, if he gets 49% of the vote he only needs to gain 1% more of the vote. The others Dems alone account for that. Whoever wins on the republican side needs to gain all their opponents votes in order to have a chance, and there is no guarantee that will be the case. Asking a single candidate to win 50% or more in a jungle primary was already asking for too much, its crazy talk to believe this was his best shot.
TheAbsolution
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Most of Cobb just came in. down to 50.8%
"There's still a chance" people are almost as annoying as the doom sayers
OrangeGrayBlue
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Big drop was due to a lot of Cobb coming in, there's still a good chunk from the other counties yet to be reported.
Remember election night?
Good times
I'm still scarred
DeKalb is already over 50% counted, it's donzo folks, but we're off to a good start for June.
StopMakingSense
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Yeah Cobb just dumped a whole bunch of votes b
Dead Prince
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"hes going to win/he's not going to win. my vote won't matter"
Wet Bloodfart
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Sounds like they showed up. It's a huuuuuge GOP district remember?
poppedcollar69
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so if you're annoyed by both, don't click on the thread maybe
Herr Schwarz
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There is though! If he gets any kind of upward movement from this point then he's got a chance. If he's still the same at 50% (reporting) then yeah, game over.
Republicans always fall in line; Democrats have to fall in love.
OrangeGrayBlue
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Looking more and more like the other dem candidates might actually spoil this. Hilarious.
There is a reason why people are saying it. Prerunoff elections always have a lower turnout. 1 dem verses 1 republican is likely to be a negative. Republicans would be more motivated to come out to vote against him. Again it's not impossible but there is a lot of work to be done
That's good news, though. If Total D > Total R, then the runoff should presumably be a win (although that obviously ignores turnout changes, which will be huge).
BronsonLee
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Republicans always fall in line. You saw it in 2016.
RPGCrazied
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Runoffs are stupid. Its not our fault Republicans had 17 people running. There should have been only 1 election.
Osoff would need to ramp up his campaign until the runoff: he would need to keep the Democrats in his district excited while convincing some of those Republican voters to switch over to him between now and June.
StopMakingSense
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Chunk of DeKalb came in.
Seemed like there was a jump in DeKalb reporting
I mean this going to a runoff will get more attention. For both sides. It's a coin toss. More money gets put into and all that jazz.
I don't view it as a negative. It's just an election.
Dekalb brought him back up. That country is 94% done
This is a jungle primary and not the actual election. They forego an election if there is a clear favorite in the primary.
StopMakingSense
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It's a primary. It's not that hard to understand.
TheCochese
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More blue than what? You're talking maybe two percent compared to Cobb's sixth.
Most of the Democratic vote in Fulton comes from mid and south.
It'll be interesting to see if the closeness of this race encourages some Democrats or Independents - who otherwise stayed at home tonight because they thought, and for good reason (in a district that hasn't seen a non-Republican candidate win for 40 years) that there would be no hope anyway - to actually come out and vote in June.
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