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Handel Defeats Ossoff in Georgia Special Election
Republican Karen Handel has defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th District special election to replace HHS Secretary Tom Price. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Handel received 52.7 percent to Ossoff’s 47.3 percent.
The contest garnered significant national attention as another chance for Democrats to take a GOP seat and send a message to President Donald Trump. Ossoff, a political newcomer, raked in a staggering $23 million from across the nation, as well as high-octane political and celebrity endorsements. As with other touted Democratic efforts since Trump’s inauguration, however, it was all for naught.
Note: Being a political professional, I did offer the most important insight of the evening as the first votes rolled in.
Published in GeneralBREAKING: If you rotate #GA06 135 degrees, it looks like a doggie. pic.twitter.com/x5crYWn5dJ
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 21, 2017
While making sure that we kept the seat is unimportant in the voting scheme of the House, the firm kick to the teeth of the DNC and slapping the smug smiles off the faces of the MSM means so much to America.
Giving confidence to America that lots of people support our President is something that is needed right now, as the MSM and the McCain wing of Congress double-down on their pure lies and Fake News against Trump.
I know I might be whistling past the graveyard, but I hope the Trump-haters on the Right will start obtaining some of that confidence, too. The more Americans who have the President’s back, the more likely it is that others will also join, and the phrase “Supermajority in ’18” might start to become commonplace.
Well, all I can say is “Hallelujah!”
Edit: Doesn’t quite work without the tweet referencing Handel’s Messiah.
This is a great relief, but I can’t help think Republicans dodged a bullet here (um, maybe I shouldn’t use that saying for awhile). Ossoff was a spectacularly bad candidate of the sort run to show the flag in an overwhelmingly GOP district. How would a serious Democrat have fared in this race?
Approximately $275 spent by Ossoff per vote received. All down the drain, much of it “coastal elite” money. It warms the cockles of my heart.
So, who hacked this election? The Norks? The Romanians? The Joooooos?
It can’t be because they nominated a pajama-wearing, cocoa-swilling twerp. Nope. Can’t be that.
@suspira “How would a serious Democrat have fared in this race?”
I don’t know. But it does raise these questions… “What if they’d run a unicorn?” “What if they’d run a jackalope?” “What if they’d run Nessie of Loch Ness?” (I maybe can answer that last question. I don’t think Nessie would have been eligible, being from Scotland and all. But considering the canidate they did run, who knows?)
Not really, They believe you can fool most of the people most of the time. So far they are at about 47%
Ah, Ms. Sus, there’s the rub! The Democrats are completely out of likable, serious candidates. The Clintons and Obama were the last chances they had at that. All they have now are trashy little lying scumbags like this twerp. Their ideas are completely bankrupt, and so they have been trying to win with Cults of Personality and MSM mud-slinging. As the Right’s voice gets louder and louder, the message is getting through: “Stop being selfish and believing the lies the DNC is telling you, and start looking at the Candidate, instead.” When people do that, they can easily see the candidate with the ‘D’ by their name is a complete fraud.
So, I guess this shows that, unlike so much of the rest of the country, this district isn’t sexist.
Kellyanne brings the heat!
Wait…he’s Batman?!
It is not unimportant and does matter. For precisely the reasons you list. The Democrats have been investing ludicrous efforts into these trivial by-elections. It is almost soley for morale, to energize their members. “See, the ‘resistance’ is working. All the shouting, the rioting and the violence is worth it. See, it is working!”
This one special election seat in the House means next to nothing regarding legislation, but it means a great deal to all the volunteers and activists who invested themselves into that campaign in order to convince themselves that the tide was turning. That the will of the people could be overturned through violence.
It doesn’t end here, some will despair and a handful may even resign themselves to being rational and begin to debate their points. But some will say, “The system has failed. Time to kill some GOP/racists/nazis/selfish bastards… whatever.” Given what we have seen so far it is a foolish mistake to assume these activists so riled up will placidly accept the results here. The assasin who went for Rep. Salise and his people will not be the only one, there will be others.
You can bank on that.
I’ll admit that that is nice. But still…….
Is it good news, because Handel got a higher vote share than Trump did, or bad news, because she got a lower vote share than her (Republican) predecessor?
From fivethirtyeight:
Thinking about it for five seconds one might say irrelevant. The idea that this election was about Trump at all was always quite fantastical.
Well 47.5% of people like them, in this particular Congressional district.
I noticed that too, but I don’t have an answer.
It looks like a doggie, but it’s no Yellow Dog…
The ridiculous spending margin on the part of the Dem* candidate kind of makes comparisons to previous elections irrelevant, don’t you think?
*the party of “lets get money out of politics”, I might add.
When are Republicans going to learn the meaning of “fungible?” That $730k was our tax dollars.
Serious Democrats are called Republicans.
Serious Democrats are called “psychotic”.
NeverTrumpers Stephen Hayes and Noah Rothman are taking solace in the fact that the South Carolina result was closer than expected.
Advice to our Dem friends: Think smaller. Get some political experience first. Like maybe run for dog catcher in Podunk Falls.
When did the predecessor get his votes? In a general election? That would have a different turnout than a special election. It seems that the type of election and the money spent would make big differences.
Considering it was over 48% in the primary, it’s going in the right direction.
Nobody knows how to waste money like you neverTrumpers and Democrats.
I’m noticing a trend here.