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

[Kamala]

NYT prediction back down to Handel +1.5 from Handel +2.6

[Crumpets]

NBC appears to have flipped their numbers around. That or #RUSSIA4OSSOF

[swf541]

If Democrats think they're going to be taking the House in 2018, this is a district they'll likely need to win.  This is supposed to be their brand new "winning coalition" of educated whites.  Epic fail.

No its not this would be a dems having a 50 seat majority seat

[Suburbia]

If Democrats think they're going to be taking the House in 2018, this is a district they'll likely need to win.  This is supposed to be their brand new "winning coalition" of educated whites.  Epic fail.

Democrats could win VA-10, Barbara Comstock's district.

[Kingpoleon]

I bet over everyone else on Ossoff and over everyone else on Norman. Sad!

[Oryxslayer]

I was gone for a while. Have we seen the mail vote yet, or is ossoff down 8k just in eday + in person?

[Green Line]

If Democrats think they're going to be taking the House in 2018, this is a district they'll likely need to win.  This is supposed to be their brand new "winning coalition" of educated whites.  Epic fail.

No its not this would be a dems having a 50 seat majority seat

False

[JJC]

Say what you want about the district or either of the candidate's respective campaigns, but the fact that Dems will likely come up short in GA-06 bodes very, very badly for the Dems going into 2018.  The fact that so many Democrats, from top to bottom, were so invested in this race is going to sting for a long time and will negatively impact recruitment, fundraising and energy going forward.

Say what you want about the race being close, but a loss as a loss and it will be Karen Handel, not Ossoff, in all likelihood heading to DC.  This isn't the Olympics, second place doesn't mean anything in politics.  

lol

GOP brought all their heavyweights to campaign for Handel. Ossoff only brought John Lewis.

R's can try to spin this all they want, but at the end of the day, these are massive swings for Democrats. On top of that we have strong recruitment and fundraising has already topped last year numbers.

Dems spent 30 million in a district Trump won by 1%.

That's not good.

A district that hasn't voted for a Democrat since the 1970s.

Irrelevant.

Firstly, the District lines have changed significantly.

Secondly, I can just as easily point to dems district that swung massively to the GOP. There are two sides to this coin.

Trump fundamentally changed the electorate. The only thing this result shows is that this change is here to stay.

Which is not good news fro Democrats.

[Rookie Yinzer]

If Democrats think they're going to be taking the House in 2018, this is a district they'll likely need to win.  This is supposed to be their brand new "winning coalition" of educated whites.  Epic fail, IF they have in fact lost.

No it is not.

[Classic Conservative]

CNN flipped their numbers around too. FAKE NEWS

[GeorgiaModerate]

I was gone for a while. Have we seen the mail vote yet, or is ossoff down 8k just in eday + in person?

I don't think the mail vote has come in yet.  But Handel's lead is getting to the point that Ossoff would need to win it overwhelmingly.

[libertpaulian]

RINO Tom has been vindicated again.

[Cory]

Pass what legislation...the Dems havent been able to pass anything since 2010

Yeah after they lost control of the House. Don't be a 5 year old.

[The Other Castro]

Hmmm

Robert Costa @costareports  14s15 seconds ago
Democratic strategist remains upbeat. Voting by mail is seen as an Ossoff stronghold and it's not yet been factored into returns.

[AtorBoltox]

Say what you want about the district or either of the candidate's respective campaigns, but the fact that Dems will likely come up short in GA-06 bodes very, very badly for the Dems going into 2018.  The fact that so many Democrats, from top to bottom, were so invested in this race is going to sting for a long time and will negatively impact recruitment, fundraising and energy going forward.

Say what you want about the race being close, but a loss as a loss and it will be Karen Handel, not Ossoff, in all likelihood heading to DC.  This isn't the Olympics, second place doesn't mean anything in politics.  

lol

GOP brought all their heavyweights to campaign for Handel. Ossoff only brought John Lewis.

R's can try to spin this all they want, but at the end of the day, these are massive swings for Democrats. On top of that we have strong recruitment and fundraising has already topped last year numbers.

Dems spent 30 million in a district Trump won by 1%.

That's not good.

A district that hasn't voted for a Democrat since the 1970s.

Irrelevant.

Firstly, the District lines have changed significantly.

Secondly, I can just as easily point to dems district that swung massively to the GOP. There are two sides to this coin.

Trump fundamentally changed the electorate. The only thing this result shows is that this change is here to stay.

Which is not good news fro Democrats.

Huh? A district that has voted GOP since the 70s voting GOP again shows 'a fundamental change in the electorate'?

[100% pro-life no matter what]

If Democrats think they're going to be taking the House in 2018, this is a district they'll likely need to win.  This is supposed to be their brand new "winning coalition" of educated whites.  Epic fail.

No its not this would be a dems having a 50 seat majority seat

Things won't go in order of the 2016 House vote (pre-Trump as president) results, especially with entrenched incumbents in most of the other ones.  A realistic Democratic path to a majority would include GA-6.

[Del Tachi]

Say what you want about the district or either of the candidate's respective campaigns, but the fact that Dems will likely come up short in GA-06 bodes very, very badly for the Dems going into 2018.  The fact that so many Democrats, from top to bottom, were so invested in this race is going to sting for a long time and will negatively impact recruitment, fundraising and energy going forward.

Say what you want about the race being close, but a loss as a loss and it will be Karen Handel, not Ossoff, in all likelihood heading to DC.  This isn't the Olympics, second place doesn't mean anything in politics.  

This doesn't bode very badly lol. Just last November, this district was 62-38 R. If the swing in GA-06 was replicated nationally the Democrats would easily take the house

If only Dems had 20 million to drop in every district

The point is, the Dems went all-in for a district Trump only won by one percentage point and still managed to lose to a deeply flawed Republican who had emerged from a fractured field while their candidate was pretty much a blank slate that tried to run exactly down this district's middle.

[GGover]

I found Karen Handel really unlikable during the debate. I kind of wish Ossoff won for that sole reason.

[TheSaint250]

I just got here. Wtf happened in SC-05?

[Gass3268]

Why does everyone have different numbers? So annoying.

[Yank2133]

Pelosi is good at her job.

Demonstrably far more competent than Ryan, in that she can actually get her people to fall in line and vote and pass legislation on a consistent basis.

That's why she's there, and why she'll likely be there for the foreseeable future.

Pass what legislation...the Dems havent been able to pass anything since 2010

Well, they haven't been in power since 2010. And when she was in charge, it was the most productive house since the LBJ years.

[GGover]

I just got here. Wtf happened in SC-05?

Ralph Norman (Republican)    51.2%   44,312
Archie Parnell (Democratic)    47.8%   41,404

Much closer than expected, might even be closer than Georgia's 6th.

[GlobeSoc]

I just got here. Wtf happened in SC-05?

Really depressed turnout caused a Halloween scare for Norman.

[Yank2133]

Say what you want about the district or either of the candidate's respective campaigns, but the fact that Dems will likely come up short in GA-06 bodes very, very badly for the Dems going into 2018.  The fact that so many Democrats, from top to bottom, were so invested in this race is going to sting for a long time and will negatively impact recruitment, fundraising and energy going forward.

Say what you want about the race being close, but a loss as a loss and it will be Karen Handel, not Ossoff, in all likelihood heading to DC.  This isn't the Olympics, second place doesn't mean anything in politics.  

lol

GOP brought all their heavyweights to campaign for Handel. Ossoff only brought John Lewis.

R's can try to spin this all they want, but at the end of the day, these are massive swings for Democrats. On top of that we have strong recruitment and fundraising has already topped last year numbers.

Dems spent 30 million in a district Trump won by 1%.

That's not good.

A district that hasn't voted for a Democrat since the 1970s.

Irrelevant.

Firstly, the District lines have changed significantly.

Secondly, I can just as easily point to dems district that swung massively to the GOP. There are two sides to this coin.

Trump fundamentally changed the electorate. The only thing this result shows is that this change is here to stay.

Which is not good news fro Democrats.

Huh? A district that has voted GOP since the 70s voting GOP again shows 'a fundamental change in the electorate'?

Yeah, that is one hell of a spin.

It is a traditionally GOP district. A normal GOP presidential candidate would have been won by a much larger margin.

[Classic Conservative]

I just got here. Wtf happened in SC-05?

Nobody voted on the GOP side.