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I’m sorry, but that just looks like some weird map of Texas drawn by someone on LSD.
I agree with your analysis, and Ossoff is a little Pajama Boy twerp.
I agree, and I agree. Only zombies programmed to go down and pull the ‘D’ lever would vote for this terrible candidate.
It could mean this: Dems will continue to waste money and resources.
Yeah, but what about the election?
Good write-up, Kyle. Nice work.
America would be crazy to try to take anything from this runoff election, either way it goes. But, since we know the MSM has gone insane since November 8th, we can rest assured that if this Demopunk wins the runoff, it will be the top story for a long time as “proof” that Trump is fading and “the people are taking back their country.”
I predict that even some people on Ricochet will also use it to prop up their reasoning for hating our President.
Indeed.
I hope they piss another 8 million away on The runoff.
Just reform taxes very soon without worrying about the deficit and keep repealing and simplifying regulations, including health care regulations, something every week and we won’t have to worry about elections for a long while. The rest is unknowable so the analysis above is reasonable.
Good analysis. And with the anti Trump media wave, including the NeverTrumpers on the right, that has been non stop since the election you would think that Ossoff would have done even better. It’s not surprising he got what he did. I expect him to lose in the run off.
LOL, he does fit that description. He’s like a caucasian version of Obama.
What that tells me is that name recognition means everything.
I presume those numbers will move to equilibrium before the runoff.
The lesson the GOP should learn is don’t run 11 candidates.
Well done, Kyle. You’ve summed up the situation well. The Reps just have to be sure they don’t become complacent. And hopefully, as @umbrafractus says, they won’t run bunches of candidates!
The nature of proper preventative action is that nothing in retrospect looks like a big deal. Outside GOP PACs taking on Ossoff while Republicans spent most of their time going after each other probably helped.
It’s also worth remembering that in 2012, Romney got 60.8 to Obama’s 37.5 in this district. The point isn’t to oversell this, but I wouldn’t be complacent. Neither about this district or the midterms.
Wish I could share the dismissive optimism here, but we should be very worried.
The Democratic candidate isn’t Sam Nunn, Jr. A 30-year-old unaccomplished pajama boy bankrolled by DailyKos nearly took half the vote against a set of well-known Republican candidates in Newt Gingrich’s district. What Me Not Worry?
This wasn’t a presidential approval poll. Nearly half the voters actually registered votes for this DailyKos puppet. Sure, Trump won the district by 2 percentage points. Price has won by an average of 35%. Trump, after a few years governing as a Reagan Republican, could win this district by 15 points in 2020. Won’t happen in Obamacare is in place in 2018 and tax reform degenerates into a corporate income tax cut.
Everyone in the string is noting the millennial fecklessness of Ossoff. Why is this encouraging? What if a local tough-on-crime Democratic DA had run?
When number in districts like GA6 are this tight, you gotta believe that centrist mayors and state senators and district attorneys and successful businessmen are going to give a strong second look at running against their GOP incumbents.
Yeah, I am very worried.
@quinntheeskimo : I think we have plenty to worry about. 20-something House seats in districts that Clinton won, energized Dems, the nature of midterms, etc. But this Ossoff election doesn’t tell us anything other than they barely liked Trump before, and they barely like Trump now.
I have said it elsewhere and I will say it again: “They” don’t run a bunch of candidates. We are not the Democrats, hand-choosing from a smoky backroom the “correct” candidate and telling everyone else to go home. We are the true Open Tent and if 11 people want to run, it happens.
Susan, I would ask you to please tell me what you feel the GOP should do so “they” don’t run a bunch of candidates? Payoffs? Threats? Assassination?
I think the amount of outside money raised is telling. This isn’t a race that tips any balance, but Democrats were willing to pour ridiculous resources into it. To me, it foreshadows the efforts we should expect to see in other races between now and the end of 2018. If they are willing to blow money on this one, what kind of resources might they bring to bear on closer races?
@quinntheeskimo : a similar amount of money was spent on the GOP side when you account for NRCC, PACs, etc. Is it that telling? Typically there’s 435 House races going on. Here, there were only 2: Kansas and Georgia. I think there was so much money and focus simply because there was nothing else to do (electorally).
Very good point. I’m sure the “they” she means is the candidates themselves thinking about the greater good and dropping out when it’s clear they don’t have a shot. It’d be interesting to know if the local GOP’s endorsed a candidate to try to force some candidates out. That would’ve been helpful.
Is this supposed to be comforting regarding the electoral danger this represents? Obama came within 100,000 votes of unalterably transforming this country. If not for the Platonic form of the Political Shrew we’d all be exercising the Benedict Option.
This worries me. Not because I know Georgia’s 6th but because I like to think I know Democrats. When you think of Ossoff and Democrats think of Beatles and teenage girls. That is the level of energy they bring to an extra off time Election Day. Another new element to this is the Handel effect. I contend that conservatives and Republicans failed to grasp the importance the Komen Foundation fiasco was to the left. It was the key incident that birthed the whole “War on Women” strategy. I imagine they will approach this election runoff with the keen focus akin to knowing an asteroid headed to Earth. Will the Conservatives in the district have half the enthusiasm?
I’ve thought about it a little, and I suppose one thing the GOP can do is make sure that all of them are in the GOP. How long have they been registered to vote? Did they vote in the last local, state, and national elections? Did they vote in the GOP primary? If they did not, are they a Donkey plant? If there is even a suspicion of this, they can talk to the candidate, and if they are not satisfied, they can publically disavow the candidate.
So Susan, I apologize. I guess there is something “they” can do, after all.
I don’t know who won, but that’s got to be the worst drawing of Texas ever. It looks like team red won Houston or Galveston, team yellow won the panhandle, and that team smurf won everything else.
You’d think they wouldn’t need to be told twice…
Although this was 6 less than the national, so maybe this IS learning.
Baby steps. ;)
Point taken, JCT. I wasn’t implying a real “they.” I retract my suggestion.
@jctpatriot, Kyle has said it better than I did it. Thanks @kyle .
Gosh, I was going to get all in a snit! ;-) No worries.