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Figueira
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« on: May 08, 2018, 07:01:40 AM »

Yes, her race is a tossup. Thank god Jon "spend your" Ossoff is not running.

I don't get all the Ossoff hate tbh. He ran a fairly good campaign, especially for a first-timer. He wasn't bad just because he lost(though, granted, the whole not-living-in-the-district thing isn't exactly a positive), and to be honest I think he would win if the same election were held today.
He underperformed Hillary in the district, and ran his campaign on nothing. Democrats shouldn't try the hardest to flip rich, suburban Republican districts, they should try to mainly flip all districts that are even slightly vulnerable.

Hillary's was already a vast overperformance compared to previous Democrats (and Price's 2016 opponent).
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« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2018, 06:58:31 AM »

Yes, her race is a tossup. Thank god Jon "spend your" Ossoff is not running.

I don't get all the Ossoff hate tbh. He ran a fairly good campaign, especially for a first-timer. He wasn't bad just because he lost(though, granted, the whole not-living-in-the-district thing isn't exactly a positive), and to be honest I think he would win if the same election were held today.
He underperformed Hillary in the district, and ran his campaign on nothing. Democrats shouldn't try the hardest to flip rich, suburban Republican districts, they should try to mainly flip all districts that are even slightly vulnerable.

Hillary's was already a vast overperformance compared to previous Democrats (and Price's 2016 opponent).
...which was due to rich, suburban Republicans voting for her. What D's failed to realize is that these people would still vote for a generic Republican over a generic Democrat (Ossoff).

This doesn't exactly jive with your original comment that Ossoff was a bad candidate. If Democrats were doomed here anyway, isn't it impressive that Ossoff even came close?
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