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An Ossoff Victory Would Not Have Saved the Democratic Party
New York Magazine ^ | April 19, 2017 | Frank Rich

Posted on 04/19/2017 10:37:53 AM PDT by TBP

This little race was fun while it lasted, and may have been the most successful jobs program (albeit for journalists) of the Trump presidency. But even if Ossoff had actually won it’s hard to see how this contest was a bellwether for 2018 or much else. Georgia’s sixth district, we keep being reminded, is “ruby red” and hasn’t sent a Democrat to the House since the state’s native son Jimmy Carter was president. But it is also a wealthy suburban Atlanta district in which Trump beat Clinton by barely a single percentage point (as opposed to Mitt Romney crushing Obama by 23 points in 2012). With a war chest of $8.3 million and facing a divided field that included 11 Republicans, Ossoff performed a shade better than Clinton (who received 47 per cent of the vote to Trump’s 48) but couldn’t put it away. Maybe it’s a good thing he didn’t. If he had, one could imagine Democrats prematurely declaring Mission Accomplished and hailing Ossoff as potential presidential or vice-presidential timber — at least until everyone remembered that he will not have reached the constitutionally mandated age requirement of 35 by 2020.

Ossoff notwithstanding, the party remains in desperate need of a new generation of national leadership that might lead it past the Clinton-Obama era — MSNBC has a more fervent following among liberals than the party and its aging Establishment. The most hopeful signs for the Democrats are at its grass roots — as first exemplified by the Women’s March and most recently by the weekend’s tax protests, both of which have made Trump furious. How this energy can be maintained and organized to powerful effect in the 2018 midterms is a question that cannot be answered by special elections in quirky congressional districts. Almost six months after the 2016 election, many Democrats are still trying to get their minds around the autopsy: Witness the fact that the journalistic account Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, released as Georgians went to the polls yesterday, is the No. 1 Amazon best seller, a runaway phenomenon that caught even its publisher by surprise; Amazon now lists the print edition as out of stock for “one to two months.” There may be more meaning in that landslide than Ossoff’s 48.1 percent plurality.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: georgia; ossoff; specialelection
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Glad Georgia didn't get Ossoffied.

But even had the Dhimmicraps won outright, it would only hve papered over tehir problems.

1 posted on 04/19/2017 10:37:53 AM PDT by TBP
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Ossified and Smokified

2 posted on 04/19/2017 10:41:15 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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If Ossoff is 30 years old and has been "with" his girl friend (med student) for 12 years, then there are other possible questions about his personal life.

Republicans avoid big loss by forcing runoff in Ga. House race

By Robert Costa April 19 at 1:47 AM

Ossoff acknowledged in a CNN interview that he lives with his girlfriend near Emory University, which is outside of the district. “I’ve been living with my girlfriend, Alisha, for 12 years now down by Emory University where she’s a full-time medical student,” Ossoff said. “As soon as she concludes her medical training, I’ll be 10 minutes back up the street in the district where I grew up.”

CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, intrigued, then asked, “So when are you going to marry her?”

“Well, I don’t want to give anything away,” Ossoff said. “I’ll give you a call when I have something to announce.”

3 posted on 04/19/2017 10:42:43 AM PDT by ptsal
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4 posted on 04/19/2017 10:46:03 AM PDT by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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To: ptsal

I gather that the Republican who made the runoff isn’t exactly our kind of Republican.


5 posted on 04/19/2017 10:46:26 AM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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What this exercise in futility did, was to suck a lot of the loose cash in the coffers of the limousine liberals right out of circulation, not to be spent elsewhere, and leave them with a rapidly deflating balloon.

If they wish to fritter away their time, talent (?), and treasure in the pursuit of some phantasmagoria, then so be it. A sign from the Universe that they are not the winners they believe themselves to be in life’s lottery.


6 posted on 04/19/2017 10:47:42 AM PDT by alloysteel (Some 95% of the personal woe in this world is self-induced.)
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Fake news CNN is saying, wake up call for the GOP!!!! Wrong again.


7 posted on 04/19/2017 10:47:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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This is CYA republican talk. They squeaked through this by the skin of their teeth. Any party that would have 11 candidates — four of them having big support — to run for a seat is begging to be defeated.

Surely, they can come up with a better system.


8 posted on 04/19/2017 10:48:04 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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He said he lives outside the district because he is supporting his girl friend through med school. But if elected he is out of there right away...


9 posted on 04/19/2017 10:48:20 AM PDT by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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He reminds me of Marco Rubio when he kept saying the same thing in his answers over and over again during the debate. Mr. 0 in this case was the Democrats’ white hope that fizzled.


10 posted on 04/19/2017 10:48:37 AM PDT by SkyDancer (The 3 most common expressions in aviation are, 'Why is it doing that?, 'Where are we?' and 'Oh Crap')
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On the long GA election thread last night, someone posted Handel’s positions and all the ones listed were excellent.


11 posted on 04/19/2017 10:49:48 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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It would have given them hope for their delusions.


12 posted on 04/19/2017 10:49:50 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, intrigued, then asked, “So when are you going to marry her?”

“Well, I don’t want to give anything away,” Ossoff said. “I’ll give you a call when I have something to announce.”

When he does have something to announce it'll probably be that he's coming out of the closet.

13 posted on 04/19/2017 10:50:31 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: TBP
This is what I never understood... Trump did beat Clinton by one a point in GA-6 in November. Tom Price's numbers are irrelevant, as he was an incumbent with only token opposition.

The media can't even claim "oh, the Republican is doing so much worse than Trump did a few months ago!" as they did in Kansas.

The fact is, Republicans were able to win a special election in deep blue Massachusetts to replace John Kerry after Obama appointed him. Democrats have done nothing in these special elections in 2017 but lose and fail and offer up excuses for it.

15 posted on 04/19/2017 10:55:13 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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The most hopeful signs for the Democrats are at its grass roots — as first exemplified by the Women’s March and most recently by the weekend’s tax protests, both of which have made Trump furious.

The media just can't help itself.

In some ways this was a reasoned article, but they couldn't put it out without a fake news hit on Trump.

At best, these are child-like adults writing, editing, and publishing these articles.

This is getting tedious and boring.

Although they recognize in the rank and file the refusal to accept the trump win, they fail to note that they themselves can't stop insulting a man that hasn't done anything wrong.

When they should be apologizing profusely for the way they trashed Trump, they just keep pushing out more insults.

The most hopeful signs for the Democrats are at its grass roots...

Wake up folks, the Democrat grass roots are dressing up in black pajamas, arming with 4' long clubs, wearing face masks, rioting, beating people who disagree with them, and making their own party leaders fear for their lives, because they aren't as big a supporter of sedition as they should be.

That's your most hopeful sign? And what pray tell would be your least hopeful sign?

Good grief.

16 posted on 04/19/2017 10:57:32 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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EXACTLY what I was thinking who in the HELL has a girlfriend for 12 years without marrying them unless if course you are in the closet!!!


17 posted on 04/19/2017 10:57:45 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: TBP

Hope he gets his Oss chopped Off in the runoff.


18 posted on 04/19/2017 11:00:42 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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Is Georgia Poised for a Democratic Upset?

Demographic changes in the Atlanta suburbs could swing the state’s special election to the Dems—if challenger Jon Ossoff can take advantage of them.

By REBECCA BURNS April 15, 2017

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/georgia-special-election-ossoff-congress-sixth-district-demographics-215031

“Indeed, in this district, formerly represented by Tom Price, Johnny Isakson and Newt Gingrich, fully 21 percent of residents are foreign-born. When Gingrich was elected there in 1992, more than 90 percent of the residents were white; now 70 percent are. And large sections of the 6th are majority-minority, Enjeti points out. “There are subdivisions out here that are entirely Asian, or Southeast Asian, with only one or two white families,” she says.”


19 posted on 04/19/2017 11:06:50 AM PDT by WatchungEagle (and over)
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It would have been hilarious if he won the votes but was disqualified for not living in the district.


20 posted on 04/19/2017 11:07:05 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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