GA-06 and SC-05 election day & results thread

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How many times have we had this dumb sun belt talk? The sun-belt strategy will be in play when Texas will be a win for Democrats (with Georgia & Arizona). Otherwise the Democratic party can never win elections - End of discussion. There are too many Senators in the rust/mid-west belt - PA, MI, OH, WI, MN, Iowa, IN - That is 14 Senators there, If Democrats keep losing here, they will never win elections. Same goes at the Presidential level. You have literally hacks in here.

Ossoff ran a mediocre campaign trying to be sort of a semi-conservative, people are tired of centrists, they will elect Trumpcare supporting Handel or reporter assaulting Gianforte instead. They spend so much money & did worse, worse than the run-off, worse than what Hillary did. In Kansas, there was 23-25% off swing, in Montana there was a 15% odd swing, here negative swing.

And they kept pouring money in & in. It is stupid like what Hillary did with endless Wall Street paid attack ads vs Trump. This is basic economics - Law of marginal returns which gets smaller & smaller. Ossoff ran a mediocre campaign & everything was about I oppose Trump, a 1 dimensional campaign. Hopefully Democrats get a better candidate in 2018, and demographics are swinging for the Democrats !

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The GOP has been accused of being hypocritical & rightfully, but when will the Democrats stop being uber partisan & have the honesty to admit Ossoff was a terrible candidate? You can't shift & play around with the goal-posts & be uber party loyalists while attacking the other party of being hacks !


Did Worse than the run-off - Total Democratic votes was 49% in the run-off with Ossoff getting 48% & the rest 1%. Ossoff's total vote share is 48% now. He under-performed vs the Jungle primary, with insufficient turnout of his base.

0 Cross-over appeal - This guy got 0 cross-over appeal, no Republican votes. Any random candidate even Yankwhatever or Invisiblewhatever will get 4-5% of the GOP vote if they run. And Ossoff the moderate got nothing from the GOP. Handel had 20% of the votes & now ends up with 52%.

He ran against a failed mediocre candidate - Handel is a terrible candidate who has had failed runs for Senate, Gov & is prone to making stupid errors & is by no means to be characterized as an out-standing candidate.

Blew a whopping 30M - For all that money, those many donations, those many volunteer hours, taking those DNC/DCCC resources away from other potential races, he has to answer & deliver. Business executives have to answer for a failed situation or when they blow up money, why does a politician get total immunity?

Did worse than Hillary Clinton - While Hillary trailed Trump by 1%, Ossoff lost by 4% even when Trump is doing terribly. Handel is not a strong candidate either. Everywhere people have over-performed Hillary, Quist by 15%, Thompson by 20%, the SC person too. Ossoff went down with record money & support.

Bland, boring character & uninspiring campaign - This guy is a bland, charisma less person who ran a boring campaign focusing on nationalizing the campaign with no core, coherent, inspiring message. He ran a mediocre campaign & lost.


To improve, you have to take responsibility, whether it is Hillary or Ossoff