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View Poll Results: Who Will Will Handel or Ossoff???
Ossoff Wins 13 18.84%
Handel Wins 56 81.16%
Voters: 69. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-21-2017, 12:03 PM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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This has gotten so serious that even a host of CNN (a woman, not sure who, I'm not a regular viewer) said that the Presidential Approval Rating may not be accurate.
CNN previously had lived and died by those approval ratings.
The Democrats are completely in the dark, and have no clue how to approach 2018.
They can't spent $30mill on every district, especially when you don't even know if you can flip them.
Bingo. The Dems are flying blind. Ossoff lost by an even bigger margin than Hillary lost in GA's 6th, and he was the Dems' greatest hope for redemption. And this is while the Dems are vainly trying to pin everything from collusion with Russia to obstruction of justice on Trump. All to no avail.

They have no clue. None.
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Old 06-21-2017, 12:16 PM
 
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LOL!

Anderson Cooper when results were announced.
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Old 06-21-2017, 12:20 PM
 
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Funny Video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qlt6LOhq4w
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Old 06-21-2017, 12:22 PM
 
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I don't think the Rs should be getting too cocky and confident.
Although Trump has gotten a lot done even with the limitations he's had, the R Congress is not getting diddly done.....
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Old 06-21-2017, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Free From The Oppressive State
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Democratic Logic 101:


He wasn't playing to win, he was playing to have fun.
Everyone is a winner!
All you can do is your best!
Nobody is a loser if they tried their hardest.


You limpwrists need to accept reality. YOU LOST. NO TROPHY. GO HOME OSSOFF.
You forgot one:

"No one loses like we do! We're the best at it!"

Or:

"We came in second place. The GOP better watch out in 2018."

This one came from a video game I was playing this weekend...it's fitting:

"You can be a sad, pathetic loser as long as you are the best you that you can be". (It was said in a very mocking tone in a game that annihilates those sad, pathetic losers.)
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Old 06-21-2017, 12:29 PM
 
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I don't think the Rs should be getting too cocky and confident.
Although Trump has gotten a lot done even with the limitations he's had, the R Congress is not getting diddly done.....
Congress got Healthcare to the Senate.
That was no small achievement, considering the diverse views on healthcare.
I'm impressed with how well President Trump and Paul Ryan get alone, considering their disastrous 2016 relationship.
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Old 06-21-2017, 12:33 PM
 
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My take on the results

The district has been a heavily Republican district for decades. It is a largely middle to upper middle class well educated district. Last year the district swung hard against Trump. As strong as Trump is with working class whites compared to previous Republicans, he certainly has a weakness with educated middle to upper middle class suburbanites.

The Democrats were looking to take that weakness and have it give them a victory in a district that is full of them. However, they just didn't get enough of them to win.
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Old 06-21-2017, 01:07 PM
 
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My take on the results

The district has been a heavily Republican district for decades. It is a largely middle to upper middle class well educated district. Last year the district swung hard against Trump. As strong as Trump is with working class whites compared to previous Republicans, he certainly has a weakness with educated middle to upper middle class suburbanites.

The Democrats were looking to take that weakness and have it give them a victory in a district that is full of them. However, they just didn't get enough of them to win.
Not even close. Several times wider win margin. Dems lost ground in this largely middle to upper middle class well educated district
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Old 06-21-2017, 01:10 PM
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Not even close. Several times wider win margin. Dems lost ground in this largely middle to upper middle class well educated district

You can make an argument that the choices in GA6 was Trump vs Pelosi. I would love to see the approval numbers of Nancy Pelosi.
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Old 06-21-2017, 01:15 PM
 
Location: The 719
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The candidate grew up in the district and lives just outside it. There are Republicans in Congress that do not currently live in their district.

Ossoff did benerfit from a ton of $$$ outside of the district, but let's not pretend Handel didn't either, considering all the Super Pac funds.
We don't need to pretend.

We just win baby.


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Russia hacked this election.
Worse. Californication.
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