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

[libertpaulian]

Where can I check in to see the SC race?

[libertpaulian]

SC-05 stopped updating. SC GOP sweatin' like a dog

GA-06 stopped updating too.

[libertpaulian]

If the Dems want to be even remotely competitive in the suburbs for House races, latte liberals are their only bet.

Suburbs don't go for Bernie-esque populists.

[libertpaulian]

Ossoff probably wasn't the best candidate Dems could've chosen.

Sigh, care to tell us which was the best candidate?

Let me guess we should just run bernie-esque candidates across the board regardless of social/demographic profile?

That's not what I was thinking at all. Dems should have ran a candidate who isn't a 30 year old documentary filmmaker with no political experience.

Justin Trudeau was a local high school drama teacher...

[libertpaulian]

Archie Parnell back in the lead

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LOL..."Union" County in South Carolina.  A little ironic if you think about it...

[libertpaulian]

Massive swing to the Democrats in SC 05. That's pretty amazing.

...yet this race received little to zero attention.

[libertpaulian]

Disastrous results for the GOP tonight

Nice try.

I mean it's not disastrous in the sense that GOP will win the seats tonight, but like. Idk I'd think it were pretty disastrous if the GOP came within 2 points of winning Rep. Grace Meng's seat for example.

SC is a pretty awful result, but they could have done much worse in GA, so I'd say it's a wash. I know it's a controversial opinion on here, but I don't believe that special elections are a 100% foolproof barometer to predict the results of the midterm elections.

Obviously they are in trouble in several House races, but we already knew that.

I agree on the one hand this says nothing about 2018 but jfc what does Trump need to do to finally pay some type of politcal backlash at the polls?

Maybe your message needs to be more than "MUH RESISTANCE"

[libertpaulian]

I see Ossoff going the way of Elizabeth Colbert and being forgotten as democrats find a new shiny object

At least she had her brother's fame to which she could cling.  Ossoff's nothing more than a pretty boy who got lucky that he made it this far.

[libertpaulian]

RINO Tom has been vindicated again.

[libertpaulian]

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

LOL ok well your posts in this thread so far have been insubstansive a so not sure why i continue to bother to reply but if i was head of the DCCC this would be on the extra seat list to take the house.  Actually i think dems need to focus on the rust belt and parts of Appalachia for 2018, in particular WV-2,3 and I think its KY-6 (the one in eastern kentucky dems had til 2012).

The seat has an R+8 PVI and the SC seat is actually imo much more alarming for the GOP considering it should not have swing much at all it should be an inelastic rural southern seat unless im missing some unique faceat of this district.

This district was Trump +1 in 2016.  The rust belt is gone. Those seats aren't swinging back.  Educated college whites are the Democrats new great white hope, and they've let them down this time.  The path to 2016 isn't going to be the same for Democrats that it was in 2008.

Yep, I remember how Indiana became a safe Democratic state after Obama's 2008 victory.

Even after 2008, the long term trends were painfully obvious.  Nobody seriously expected battleground Indiana(!) going into 2012.  Not comparable at all...

Even in 2012, Romney won Indiana by only 10%, which isn't very high for a Republican.

[libertpaulian]

Maybe we should've just said "Fck it" and ran a Berniecrat.

In the suburbs?  LOL.

[libertpaulian]

How does Corbyn doing well in the UK say anything about US politics?

BINGO.  The US is, culturally speaking, much further to the right than the UK or any other European country for that matter (with the exception of perhaps Switzerland).

[libertpaulian]

Maybe if the Dems want to flip a seat in GA, they should try for GA-12 (John Barrow's old seat).  That went red in the 2014 GOP tsunami when it was a blue seat for practically a century.