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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: HAPPY2BME on April 19, 2017, 03:17:08 AM
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Democrat Jon Ossoff is headed for a runoff in June against a Republican contender after failing Tuesday to score an upset victory to represent a suburban Atlanta district in Congress.
CNN called the race just after midnight.
The 30-year-old investigative filmmaker aimed for an outright win in the 6th District race, but a furious Republican counterattack joined by President Donald Trump appears to have kept him under 50 percent.
A Democratic victory would be an embarrassing defeat in a district held for decades by Republicans, and Trump’s opponents would have cast it as a devastating rebuke to his administration. Republicans downplayed the implications, saying Ossoff benefited from a cocktail of money, national attention and enthusiasm that’s nearly impossible to replicate.
He goes into a June 20 runoff against Karen Handel, a Republican who will try to unify the party after vicious weeks of internal GOP feuding.
Ossoff outperformed Hillary Clinton in Cobb and DeKalb counties and was running ahead of Clinton’s numbers in Fulton County as well.
http://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-special-election-will-runoff/0vjBeCt3UrCagElSrSAyFJ/
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Handel will probably beat the carpetbagger . . . :whistling:
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Handel will probably beat the carpetbagger . . . :whistling:
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Word gets around fast these days. Once people in this particular Atlanta district found out that Ossoff DIDN'T EVEN LIVE THERE, he lost. Ossoff couldn't even legally vote for himself.
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Is GOP leadership stupid, incompetent or slap-crazy?
The answer is yes.
I'd like to know who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to run 11 Republicans in Georgia's sixth congressional district race.
Instead of a decisive victory, Republican Karen Handel is now faced with a summer runoff against Democrat Jon Ossoff.
It's as if Republican leadership fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
When a political novice gets the most votes in a historically Republican district – there's a big problem.
Not to mention the fact that Mr. Ossoff does not even live in the district. That makes it a mighty big problem.
https://www.onenewsnow.com/perspectives/todd-starnes/2017/04/19/is-gop-leadership-stupid-incompetent-or-slap-crazy