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It will be a runoff for House seat in special election in Georgia — 11 Comments

  1. “11 Republican opponents to split the vote on the GOP side”

    Far too soon to retire my tried and true: “REPUBLICANS — They thirst for death.”

  2. In the runoff, I think turnout on the Republican side will rise quite a bit more than on the Democrat side. Republicans had no chance to win the seat yesterday while the Democrats did, and, combined, all the Democrats in the race still ended up under 50% of the total vote.

    I predict Handel will win the runoff with at least 55% of the vote.

  3. 8.3 million? Let me be like a Dem and whine about money in the elections, and the waste and how it could be put to better use.

    Pfft. Hypocrites, the lot of them.

  4. I live in that contested GA district, and like others in the metro Atlanta area was subjected to a saturation-bombing ad campaign, with Ossoff’s tv ads CONSTANTLY, often back-to-back. (The first ad would usually be his vague, goo-goo, “let’s all work together” snake oil; the second his lame response to “all those negative ads against me.” In the second he would come out swinging with “Yes, I’m a Georgia Democrat, and proud of it”–as if that were being contested. Although it could have been, given the charge that he doesn’t even live in that district. My first visceral reaction to his ads, without knowing much about him, was: “Phonus Balonus.”

    What’s also interesting about his ads was that a time when the more intelligent Democrats are thinking, “Hey, maybe we should dial back the smugness and arrogance a bit,” his ads convey a smugness and arrogance I haven’t seen since Hillary Clinton. His inflation of his resume (which he never denies in these ads) seems very Clintonian, too. And very Yuppie. He seems to be very popular among his own ilk: Liberal Yuppies. “Liberal Yuppies” . . . yuck. There’s a hybrid more nauseating than anything Doctor Moreau ever dreamed up.

  5. This district is right next to the one I live in. This is a mostly upper middle class area with lots of northern transplants/ corporate types and mainstream libs, but still with a [dwindling] conservative majority. GOP Karen Handel is a career GOP politician (former GA. Secretary of State). Very stable, steady, plain vanilla politico type. The GOPe here likes her. I think she’ll win handily in June.

    Ossoff appears to be right out of “Donk central casting”. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth (private schools all the way then to Georgetown), he exudes a kind of smugness that reminds me of Elizabeth Warren. Rush calls him the “Pajama Boy”. He’s not quite that bad but of the same androgynous genre. Hard to believe they spent almost $9 Million; I guess they’ll spend at least that much on the runoff as well. His ads in Metro Atlanta have been constant and on all media (e.g., almost every web page I visit, not to mention TV and radio). Very slick. Cynically slick.

  6. Perhaps I’m missing something but I don’t see how you can represent a district in which you’ve never lived. Doesn’t that violate the very rationale that forms the basis for the House of Representatives?

  7. Geoffrey Britain, 5:11 pm —

    Sir Geoffrey, I think you’re missing something. My understanding is that Ossoff lived in that district all his life, but he’s temporarily living outside the district because his significant whatever is completing medical school and he’s waiting for that sacrifice to end . . . after which, he swears he’ll be back living in the district again. In addition, he says his apartment is only a mile and a half (or something like that) from the district.

    A caller to Rush Limbaugh yesterday who lives in the district reports that Ossoff’s ads consist of how Ossoff supports the military, is against excessive government spending, and a third talking point that I don’t recall now. The point the caller was making was that Ossoff was trying as hard as he could to sound like a Republican. I’m reminded of El Rushbo in the Bill-‘n’-Hill days, when he would characterize Democrats as essentially saying among themselves, “how can we fool ’em today?”

  8. GB:

    I was puzzled about that as well. See this:

    Interestingly, there is no residency requirement for members of the House of Representatives, other than they are citizens of the state from which they are elected.

    Article 1, section 2, clause 2 of the Constitution provides:

    “No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.”

    I think the law in most states law goes further to require that the candidate be a resident of the district in question, but apparently not GA.

  9. “11 Republican opponents to split the vote on the GOP side”

    This is why parties have primaries: so only ONE candidate faces the opposition.

    These “non partisan” elections are also why CA always ends up with 2 Democrats at the run-off stage.

    Did I remember to note that Republicans are the Party of Stupid, to ever have agreed to any of this?

    Maybe they were out-voted somehow — I don’t know the history.

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