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

[Suburbia]

Ossoff should run again.

Please no.

Why not. It's just one race. 2018 can be closer.

[Yank2133]

I mean, Trump just gets stronger and stronger

Um, no. Really, no.

Sanchez is completely delusional.

[TheSaint250]

So do you think a Trump supporter can defeat Maxine Waters? How about Nancy Pelosi? Jose Serrano? I mean the results of the special elections leave the possibilities endless for Republicans gains...

I think because of this Trump will win DC in 2020

(jk ofc)

[Brittain33]

Ossoff is going to end up with almost the exactly % he got back in April. That by itself is amazing.

The original, long-buried take on this election that he had to win the first round because the Rs would rally together and beat him in a 1:1 turned out to be right.

[publicunofficial]

Both sides still need centrist voters. Not everyone is partisan.

Jon Ossoff was the most bland, policy-ignoring, featureless center-left asshole they could find and he still got called a f**king San Francisco Maoist.

Who's 'they'? Dude got propped up by random people on Daily Kos.

Implying Daily Kos isn't a center left site.

[Chief Justice Keef]

I'm tired of losing by only a few points. SOMETHING'S gotta change. Whether that be the messaging, the leadership, or the candidates.

They all have to go: Pelosi, Hoyer, Perez, etc...

EXACTLY. All of those hacks need to go.

[The Other Castro]

NYT live vote tracker currently predicting an end result of Handel 51.4%, Ossoff 48.6%.

[TheSaint250]

When is Pelosi ever going to be held accountable 2010..2012..2014..2016..2018? Why are House Dems ok with this?

Didnt you hear? The geniuses over at the DNC are hiring Rham Emanuel to coordinate the 2018 mid-terms. He's going to brush the dust off the 90s DLC playbook and bring back the Clinton days! Sure it hasn't worked in nearly 20 years but dont worry ...any day now!

I don't think putting up ultra-liberal Sandernistas will do it

Tell it Jeremy Corbyn

The Dems have been running centrist trash all my life. It dosen't work and it never will. The GOP keeps pushing further and further right and they only win more. It's time for Dems to get a ing clue and chuck Pelosi, Hoyer, Perez, Schumer, et all to the side

GOP will move more to the center over time. Centrism is the key for both parties

[AtorBoltox]

I need to re-iterate my point that the GOP won none of the 5 special congressional elections in 2009, and actually lost a seat to the democrats. The overall trends of these results is very bad for republicans

[cinyc]

AP calls the race for Handel.

[NewYorkExpress]

Wrong again...

[Suburbia]

A Jeremy Corbyn type can't win in a suburban area unless if they are rich socialists. The Democratic Party brand and image right now is just not good. People see the party as "snowflake", "SJW", etc.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

"Jon Ossoff came to my mosque Friday. He didnt try to win our vote, he just had a professional camera crew taking pics of him with hijabis."

https://twitter.com/FalafelDad/status/877256556601106432

Why were people stanning so hard for this guy again?

Jesus, he's terrible.

Sorry I defended him the other night.  jfern was right, unfortunately.

[AtorBoltox]

When is Pelosi ever going to be held accountable 2010..2012..2014..2016..2018? Why are House Dems ok with this?

Didnt you hear? The geniuses over at the DNC are hiring Rham Emanuel to coordinate the 2018 mid-terms. He's going to brush the dust off the 90s DLC playbook and bring back the Clinton days! Sure it hasn't worked in nearly 20 years but dont worry ...any day now!

I don't think putting up ultra-liberal Sandernistas will do it

Tell it Jeremy Corbyn

The Dems have been running centrist trash all my life. It dosen't work and it never will. The GOP keeps pushing further and further right and they only win more. It's time for Dems to get a ing clue and chuck Pelosi, Hoyer, Perez, Schumer, et all to the side

GOP will move more to the center over time. Centrism is the key for both parties

No they won't. The GOP are far right ideologues

[DrScholl]

Look at the districts that Republicans hold that supported Hillary between anywhere from 6-20% (FL-27 being the highest). If this sort of swing was duplicated in those districts, Republicans would all those seats.

[libertpaulian]

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

In the suburbs?  LOL.

[heatcharger]

Both sides still need centrist voters. Not everyone is partisan.

Jon Ossoff was the most bland, policy-ignoring, featureless center-left asshole they could find and he still got called a f**king San Francisco Maoist.

Who's 'they'? Dude got propped up by random people on Daily Kos.

Implying Daily Kos isn't a center left site.

Your point? Some of you #DemExit people think the all-powerful DNC handpicks every single candidate, when in this case, and actually in all of these special elections this year, that has not been the case.

[Suburbia]

Jon Ossoff still has a political future. There is something called "learning". He'll learn from this and will run again in 2018 and 2020.

[publicunofficial]

When is Pelosi ever going to be held accountable 2010..2012..2014..2016..2018? Why are House Dems ok with this?

Didnt you hear? The geniuses over at the DNC are hiring Rham Emanuel to coordinate the 2018 mid-terms. He's going to brush the dust off the 90s DLC playbook and bring back the Clinton days! Sure it hasn't worked in nearly 20 years but dont worry ...any day now!

I don't think putting up ultra-liberal Sandernistas will do it

Tell it Jeremy Corbyn

The Dems have been running centrist trash all my life. It dosen't work and it never will. The GOP keeps pushing further and further right and they only win more. It's time for Dems to get a ing clue and chuck Pelosi, Hoyer, Perez, Schumer, et all to the side

When Corbyn overcame the media and half of his party slandering him as a radical, and gave Labour their first glimpse at the Prime Minister's seat in years, I was excited because finally the No Labels, "America is a center-right country" hacks would finally wake up. Instead they completely ignored it.

F**k the Democratic Party forever.

[Technocracy Timmy]

Well the DCCC has got its work cut out for them in the Romney-Clinton districts in and around Orange County. Obviously it's not the same; but a lot of the groups Dems need to win over here are quite similar to the constituents in GA-6.

Ossoff was probably the best fit in terms of ideology and messaging for these kind of voters. Sh!t

[TheSaint250]

When is Pelosi ever going to be held accountable 2010..2012..2014..2016..2018? Why are House Dems ok with this?

Didnt you hear? The geniuses over at the DNC are hiring Rham Emanuel to coordinate the 2018 mid-terms. He's going to brush the dust off the 90s DLC playbook and bring back the Clinton days! Sure it hasn't worked in nearly 20 years but dont worry ...any day now!

I don't think putting up ultra-liberal Sandernistas will do it

Tell it Jeremy Corbyn

The Dems have been running centrist trash all my life. It dosen't work and it never will. The GOP keeps pushing further and further right and they only win more. It's time for Dems to get a ing clue and chuck Pelosi, Hoyer, Perez, Schumer, et all to the side

GOP will move more to the center over time. Centrism is the key for both parties

No they won't. The GOP are far right ideologues

Nope. Trump is the face of the party. he is not "far right." The Tea Party has failed to get a presidential candidate since it began and it is weakening.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

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

In the suburbs?  LOL.

The cuckgressive lost despite running what was by all accounts a great campaign.

[Yank2133]

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

[Cactus Jack]

Ignoring, for a second, the embarrassment that was GA-6, can we perhaps take note of the fact that Parnell actually made a race out of SC-5?

[Green Line]

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

In the suburbs?  LOL.

The cuckgressive lost despite running what was by all accounts a great campaign.

He lost because he's to the left of the district...  that doesn't mean run a far left candidate.