Also,
Seriously, notice whenever Atlas is bashing someone's "candidate quality", it is almost always a woman.
Umm, Atllas trashed non-stop during the summer both Ossoff and Warnock as terrible candidates that were blowing winnable races.
I'll admit to being a massive Ossoff skeptic when he got in, but have been astoundingly impressed by the smart and extremely disciplined campaign he has run. Given GA's trends, he could hold this seat for a generation.
The Warnock dooming was always absurd, and a very good example of how Atlas often takes a 30,000 foot view of these races. Warnock's campaign correctly made multiple key assumptions:
1) His campaign's messaging and targeting was going to be extremely dependent on who he shared the ticket with, meaning he needed to allow all Democratic primaries to resolve themselves before he could employ full strategy.
2) Stockpiling money early on would allow him to be much more visible when it actually mattered.
3) Loeffler and Collins would go nuclear on each other, dragging each other down and allowing him to run an exclusively positive, broad-message (i.e. not primary-esque) campaign, which he successfully did as evidenced by his massive favorability numbers here.
