It was hard to write a boring article about this really interesting race—but the author managed to do it! Agreed, but there were several "tells" such as the following and the fact that the canvassers harassed the parents to talk to their kids.
Most of the Ossoff volunteers I met were local residents who had grown up somewhere else, longtime Democrats who had long felt outnumbered. In the end, they were no match for their neighbors’ deeply rooted political allegiances, and they may have become a self-reinforcing feedback loop.