Posted on 06/13/2017 1:05:57 PM PDT by drewh
Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff are tied just one week before the runoff election in the hotly contested race for a House seat from Georgia, a new poll conducted for WXIA television in Atlanta revealed.
Here are the poll highlights:
Forty-seven percent support Handel and another 47 percent back Ossoff. Six percent are still undecided. Ninety-one percent of those who voted for President Donald Trump support Handel. Ninety-four percent of those who voted for Hillary Clinton back Ossoff. Ninety-seven percent of "very" conservative voters support Handel. "The findings underscore the fact that this race really comes down to turnout," said Emory political scientist Andra Gillespie. "Both campaigns need to get as many volunteers on the phones and out in neighborhoods reminding voters to turn out on Tuesday. The campaign that has the best organized get-out-the-vote operation will be the one who likely wins this race.
Three weeks ago, a similar poll showed Ossoff ahead by 7 points, the television station noted.
The new poll was conducted by Survey USA. Seven hundred registered voters were interviewed from June 7-11. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
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Polls said Hillary would win. Just saying
Go out and VOTE!
Don’t get too cocky. Never underestimate the fraud machine. And I don’t mean Russia!
When you get right down to it, Georgians aren’t going to vote for some sissy boy who doesn’t even live in their district.
Same old play. Put the Dem ahead by a few before the election as psyc ops to suppress and discourage GOP and motivate Dems. Then as Election Day come Polster must retain their credibility as this is their job.
Same,e size and mix of reg voters vs likely voter and is Dem/ GOP sample close to real mix - special elections like this have low turn out so likely voter is key vs. registered voter
Tied means Goo by 3-5 points. A win is a win, don’t care if it is only a field goal. Dems will declare victory as they kept it closer than District make up hints it would be
It will be surprising if Ossoff wins just because it has been Republican for so long...but if he does, it’ll be because of the the tons and tons of money sent into the campaign.
And the Democrats say they want to get money out of politics.
Except if it’ll help them win. :)
Not in GA the state polls did not have HRC ahead going into the election.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/ga/georgia_trump_vs_clinton-5741.html
Even the leftist AJC paper polling had DJT ahead in GA before the election.
“When you get right down to it, Georgians arent going to vote for some sissy boy who doesnt even live in their district.”
You wouldn’t think they would, but from the yard signs in north Fulton, that appears to no longer be the case. I think many would vote for a crap sandwich if it ran as a Democrat.
That 7% lead magically vanished in 3 weeks?
Now tied with a 4.5% margin of error?
Only 700 polled, not corrected for LIKELY voters?
Were an equal number of registered republicans and registered democrats polled?
Who answers unscreened calls from strangers?
But yeah, pretend it’s a tie, get a better turnout.
RCP average doesn’t have it tied though
And how many millions have they set on fire for ossoff?
starting to pop a schadenboner
I’d like to see the poll internals. The pollsters are regularly giving democrats a D+ 10-13 points when in the last election in the states Trump carried it was more like an R+3.
Since this is a state Trump carried, this means Handel wins by 5-10% at minimum.
Survey USA which performed this survey seems to lean towards Handel winning
Ossoff declined a debate on CNN last week, when early voting began. Perhaps his campaign could see from early voting that he didn’t need national exposure for a failed election.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/4/jon-ossoff-refused-debate-karen-handel-cnn/
Others seem to think that his campaign thought he was in too good of a position to risk being exposed on CNN. We’ll see next week!
GOTV!!!
The Democrats have built this up too much. A Handel win will be devastating to them. Normally nobody would pay attention to a GA house race.
Voting map of Distrtict 6 April 18th primary.
Ossoff challenged Handel to six debates and then backs out of a debate on CNN. There was even a petition demanding Handel debate Ossoff.
I’m not sure why he refused the CNN offer. I was just repeating what some on here thought could be the reason. This D6 race seems to be tight as a tick and could go either way depending on turnout. Again, we’ll see next week.
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