Posted on 04/18/2017 3:08:04 PM PDT by SMGFan
The most competitive special Congressional election yet has arrived, and we will be providing returns live tonight right here. In addition to our district-wide totals, we will be analyzing county and precinct level returns. For the Democrats, the hope is that Jon Ossoff can pull out an outright win tonight- if he gets over 50% of the vote in this crowded field, he’s in as the district’s new Representative in Congress. If he falls short, then he will face off against one of four likely Republican opponents in a runoff on June 20th: Karen Handel, Bob Gray, Judson Hill, or Dan Moody. Polls close at 7pm and we anticipate at least early vote tallies to begin rolling in shortly thereafter. Refresh this page for the latest results tonight out of Georgia.
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Georgia 6th Congressional District (GA06) Special Election- Primary
April 13, 2017 At 2:02 PM Results Brandon Finnigan
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Candidate Percent Votes
Jon Ossoff (Democratic) 62.0% 31,132
Karen Handel (Republican) 14.1% 7,095
Dan Moody (Republican) 8.4% 4,230
Bob Gray (Republican) 6.9% 3,457
Judson Hill (Republican) 5.3% 2,674
David Abroms (Republican) 0.7% 359
Kurt Wilson (Republican) 0.7% 340
Ragin Edwards (Democratic) 0.4% 198
Ron Slotin (Democratic) 0.3% 141
Early vote is the operative phrase. There should be more than 120,000 more votes to come in for the special election. Reps vote on election day while the Dems vote during early and absentee voting.
I read back over Handel’s career path and she seems to have chosen advancement in elective office without staying around to accomplish much. She is no Democrat, but not very solid.
Handel has dropped to third place, with Hill second, in the secretary of state’s tabulation. Osoff at 57 percent there.
It is early voting though, and that skews Democratic.
Not quite the case for special elections, where the idea is to get a winner for an interim term as quickly as possible.
The early Kansas numbers were similar last week and the GOP candidate moved ahead at the end.
This is a bigger margin, but not at all difficult.
So it's on the low end of close. Personally I'd be happy if he got 48.5%... and the other Dems took 1.5% LOL! I love irony!
idgi
what’s this mean?
Did you fall for a parody account?
Could just be sarcasm.
They need to control themselves and stay away from twitter.
Parody account
Good news. Thanks
Not necessarily. In LA the primary is open. not partisan. If any candidate gets 50% +1, s/he is the winner of the election. Now, in CA it’s an open primary for Senate and top two run off vs each other. The past election primary top two winners were Harris and Sanchez, both Dems.
The decision desk has it essentially 33,000 to 20,000 currently. We will see how Ossoff does with the same day voting and rural areas. 13,000 is not a lot of votes to make up by the rest of the field. It will be close. The Dems are turning out better than the Reps as was the case in KS.
thought Gray would be doing better ugh.. don’t like Handel not sure about the other guys
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