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

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So like in other thread any thoughts on this guy's thread? https://mobile.twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/876972215174037504

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I heard it's going to rain today in the 6th. Are they calling for bad rain or a drizzle?

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A lot of people in line are drinking iced coffee. Good sign. Only liberals drink iced coffee.

Only liberals?

I believe that was a joke

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Grain of salt but I keep hearing on Twitter DeKalb county is getting high turnouts

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This sucks I mean it guys Handel did not do anything to deserve a win here

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No way to spin this, this sucks. It might be hard but we might be looking at a situation where Trump an reps can get free reign now matter how bad because they now have a coalition of unpredicated levels of white people with rural whites who swear by him and suburbanites whites who hold their noses for him until a decade when they are a minority

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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?

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Okay for the record with that inevitable attack line about Ossoff's money Reps outspent him in this race and more come from out of state then Jon

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Can we also be honest this is pissing is off so much because we have the most divisive and petty president in history who we know will spam this into ever freaking conversation he has for a month along with his jackles Kellyanne and Spicer an the troll fandom as well

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Though on the bright side the dems have been secretly nailing star rural recruits in Ojeda,Gray, and Davis

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Ugh. This one stings. Really makes it feel like Democrats can't win no matter what they do. I think that one lesson to take away from this is that districts like GA-06 are not the "future" of the Democratic Party, and will be much harder for Democrats to win back than districts that are more working class. Clearly, the path to a majority in the House doesn't run through Republican districts that swung to Clinton. It runs through districts like IA-01, NY-19, and ME-02. And it's also obviously the case that flipping WI/MI/PA will be much easier for Democrats than flipping AZ/GA.

I don't recall the GOP taking this attitude that much in '09, and then they went after MA and Obama's Senate seat too.

GA-06 and flipping GA/AZ  simply should be used in the periphery, AFTER the rest is locked up.

Major difference Obama was popular in 09 so se loses were expected. With Trump we are only 6 months in yet he has had blunder after blunder but yet like the election no matter how much awful he does he pays no consequences. To the point where it's not even "Teflon" and more "is half of this country just f**king insane"

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Seriously is Trump and his fan base all emotional man children? Twitter is just pure cancer right now

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God it's like November all over again I just feel punched in the gut

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Implying you can't both run a issues campaign AND have the solution to those issues be socialististic in nature.

Democrats need to come up with a comprehensive agenda/manifesto; with REAL detailed policies and not just empty platitudes like "bring back the jobs". Give people a signal that the Democrats learned something from 2016, instead of just hoping that people finally hate Trump enough to hand Congress over to Democrats.

There are millions of people in this country, especially young people and minorities, who are natural voters for the Democrats but will never bother to vote because the party does absof***inglutely nothing for them but still acts like they have a DUTY to vote Dem. Chase these votes instead of the votes of some rich assholes who moved his family into the suburbs the moment he saw a black family move onto the same street as him. These people are the worst in America, and they should stay in the GOP where they belong.

Exactly.

It's as dumb as the naysayers 40 years ago who didn't believe welfare gutters "chasing Goldwater" could actually win when Ford couldn't and Carter just won and Nixon went out. All it takes is one charismatic guy to say "there you go again" against a less charismatic opponent.

Or more recently, Scott Walker, Paul LePage, and Rick Snyder and even Tom Corbett all flipped blue states in 2010 with none of this moderation bs. Staunchly far-right and unapologetic and they won because they seemed to have the issues down according to voters. They fell rather quickly though in office and it took dog-whistling and incompetent counter campaigns running on similar ideas to Ossoff to get re-elected...well except for Tom Corbett, he got rightfully taken out.

Thats not true , by 1979 Reagan was the odds on favorite to win the Republican nomination

Also Reagan was the favorite in the general long before the debate: https://highered.nbclearn.com/portal/site/HigherEd/flatview?cuecard=3252



Who do the dems have that can be Reagan , I dont see anybody they have who can(either too old or no where near as charismatic to win the nomination)

Also remember Reagan came from the governors office not the senate. When you look at who the dems have at the governor bench who can be their Reagan, you cant find any body but Jerry Brown who is way too old to run in 2020.

Gavin Newsome

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Also why does it have to be a "dem Reagan"? The person who beats Trump doesn't have to be a democratic Reagan it can be the next FDR or maybe they become the standard bearer president

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Because he wasn't? Ossoff lost because of tribal politics not some major failing on his part