Why the hell did the Republicans run 11 candidates? Talk about splitting the vote. They should’ve banded together and knocked this election off.
Agreed!
I agree. Were they going for a win or participation ribbons? Dumb. Just dumb (again)
Because if there's one thing the Republicans are good at, it is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory....
that’s still way too hight of a % for a democrat in this district. Like you said, over 10 GOP candidates running? Incompetence. The GOP still can’t get its act together. Trump had to whip them into it most of the time.
Uniparty operates as a circular firing squad.
Do they get to keep the money they raise maybe?
Can the RNC not do anything about this? I’m guessing that’s part of the problem. This seems like a close call, very dangerous.
better yet, why even have such a stupid rule..”50%” wins it outright”.. in a solid district...playing with fire and almost got burned. Just plain stupid politics.
Because there is no monolithic force in the GOP that dictates whether you can run or not.
So, there were 11 egos and no mob boss to tell 10 of them to sit down and shut up.....as in the Dem party.
+1. Cutting it real close when they didn’t need to. Now a star is born.
Some of those 11 gop are dem plants to split the vote. Much like Evan Mcmullin who’s a dem but joined the race in the gop side to split the gop vote
Eleven candidates, reflecting all the competing flavors of the Republican ice cream store. I suspect this will lead to a win for the Democrat in June. Does anyone know what kind of place Fulton County is? Urban, suburban, or rural?
Which Republican flavor is the woman winner?
I bet the 11 actually helped as 1 on 1 would have given too much early focus. Are Dems really going to spend another 10-15 million in a Republican district? Especially as Ossoff’s character (shacking up with a woman for 12 years) and carpetbagger status (doesn’t live in the district) becomes more widely discussed. Did you lie before, will conservatives, even moderates want him. Besides, on top of it all, something like 95% of his funds also came from outside the district. Those are three facts that should be pretty damning.
Why the hell did the Republicans run 11 candidates? Talk about splitting the vote. They should’ve banded together and knocked this election off.
Too many times its the Republican way.
What else would you expect from the "party of the stupid?"
NO plan. Just reactions.
Because the law doesn’t provide for a primary
Democrats regularly sponcer candidates from other parties in our area to split the vote
<¡>Who cares how many ways the Republican vote was split. All that was needed was to prevent the Democrat from getting a majority of the vote. Since no candidate got a majority, it goes to a runoff. In Texas, the second place finisher in the first round is more likely to win the runoff election.
Voters should have the right to nominate a candidate rather than having one imposed like the rats obviously did with Ossoff, (a few other rats ran including a former State Senator but got VERY few votes). There were 4 viable Republicans BTW, the others were nothings.
It’s only a problem because of Georgia’s ridiculous jungle primary for special elections.
I can understand why GA doesn’t want to have a special primary, then primary runoff (as they have in GA) and then general. That could be solved by having an instant runoff party primary. Or less democratically it could be solved by having the party appoint a candidate (as many other states do for special elections) and not having a primary at all. Or having the party select a maximum of 2 candidates to run in the primary, eliminated the need for a runoff.
Jungle primaries are stupid and subversive to democracy. Funny thing is if the rats had run 2 candidates and they spit the rat vote evenly, they would have both advanced to the runoff. So they have actually hurt themselves by putting out a fatwah that Ossoff was to be the sole contender.
And really I’m not sure how much it mattered that there were 4 GOP candidates, the a-hole commie rat would have come close to winning anyway. He did well cause rat turnout was energized, for reasons that had nothing to do with the number of Republican candidates. He was polling low 40’s, ended up with high 40’s.
The title of this thread aside, there is no spinning this. This was a near disaster. Emphasis on near.
There’s no reason to think the runoff won’t be close.
The good news is that rat expectations are high, so WHEN they lose the runoff, even if it’s by 1 point, it will be hard for them to spin it. We’ll be able to say close only counts in horseshoes.
This is all hands on deck for the party. We need to do everything. Suppress rat turnout, post signs in rat precincts the day before the runoff that voting will be extended to Wednesday (just kidding, half kidding). Bring out big guns to campaign for Karen Handel. And make sure everyone knows that Ossoff is a Berner (I don’t know if he is a Berner but we should say he is regardless, this is not a Bernie district) communist backed by every piece of psycho garbage in hollywood.
And Georgia needs to consider some things. They likely won’t cause most pubbie politicians lack the will to win but they should
1)Scrap the jungle primary like I said
2)Scrap early voting, you’d think it would help working people vote but it seems to mostly help lazy democrats and it must make fraud easier. Fulton County was slow as hell counting the votes. They were in November too as you’ll recall with GA a very late call (after Florida!) despite a comfortable enough margin for Trump.
3)Consider a mid-decade re-draw of the district lines. This area were’e talking about is undergoing the same rot that happened in Northern VA. Trump did underporm there but some of it is not on him, it has shifted more to left and I’m not sure it won’t shift a little more in the coming years. Nip it in the bud.