DNC chair: Heck yes, we’re pouring more money into Ossoff

Hot Air ^ | April 19, 2017 | Ed Morrissey

[2ndDivisionVet]

Heck? Darned? Tom Perez doesn’t work blue on cable TV, especially in the early hours, apparently. “I’d rather be Jon Ossoff right now than Karen Handel,” the DNC chair told Morning Joe earlier today after $8.3 million and a fractured Republican field failed to keep their special-election candidate from a runoff in June. “He’s already at 49% of the vote, and there’s a heck of a lot of energy out there,” Perez bragged after Joe Scarborough questioned the strategy of Democrats in investing heavily in TV spots. Perez pledged full Democratic Party support, saying that they had a “darned good ground game” and have room to do even better in the runoff.

Mika Brzezinski wasn’t quite buying it, and neither was USA Today reporter Heidi Przybyla. After declaring that Democrats won a series of “moral victories,” she wonders when that will translate to actual victories:

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Color CNN’s Chris Cillizza skeptical, too. Cillizza isn’t exactly impressed with Perez’ claims of superior energy and Przybyla’s “moral victories.” They still haven’t demonstrated that they have any momentum, although Cillizza thinks that the June runoff might be a showcase for that claim:

What’s difficult to know is how Ossoff’s showing will be viewed by the Democratic base and the donor community. Will it be evidence that even seats in the solid South can be won thanks to Trump’s unpopularity? Or will Democrats regard it as a disappointment given the perfect storm of factors that seemed to be lining up in Ossoff’s favor for Tuesday’s vote?

What I know is that winning and coming close to winning aren’t the same thing. And this is the second time in as many weeks that Democrats had high hopes and didn’t see their best case scenarios realized when all the votes were cast.

Democrats, out of power in Congress and the White House, need a spark to convince themselves they can take back all that they had lost. Georgia’s 6th district was seen as the best chance for that spark. It didn’t happen on Tuesday night — and now Democrats will have to wait almost two months to see if they can start to build momentum for the November 2018 midterms.

Perhaps this result will wake up others in the media, who have been trawling these special elections looking for support for a narrative about voters abandoning Trump to no avail. As I write in my column for The Week, it’s a case of wishcasting rather than newscasting:

Exhibit C: A New York Times feature of a swing district in Pennsylvania offered up anecdotal evidence of a loss of confidence, but not much data otherwise. The headline of the story framed Trump voters at a loss for “when the ‘winning’ will start,” but only one person in the story seemed to have actually changed her mind about Trump. The 8th congressional district lies mainly within Bucks County, where Hillary Clinton actually edged out Trump in November by 3,000 votes, despite the R+2 advantage, and even though Pat Toomey won his Senate race there by over 18,000 votes. A handful of precincts in PA-08 come from Montgomery County, where Clinton won 59-37, making PA-08 an odd choice for an argument about a post-inaugural letdown. …

Perhaps there will come a time when Trump voters actually do turn on him and either vote for Democrats or don’t turn out at all. So far, though, there is no actual evidence that’s happening now. There is enough polling and anecdotal evidence to conclude that Trump voters have enough patience to give their candidate more than 90 days to get his agenda accomplished. They seem to have more patience than the media does in jumping to conclusions, at any rate.

Few seem to be paying attention to one key fact from yesterday’s election, which is that Republicans got more votes yesterday in GA-06 than Democrats and unaffiliateds combined — even after the air-dropping of $8.3 million into Jon Ossoff’s campaign. Perez and the DNC had a huge organizational advantage and the normal opportunities afforded in special elections, and still couldn’t pull off the steal. Not everything fits a narrative, but this narrative so far fits almost nothing except fantasies in the media.

[RC one]

let’s see how well this chump does when the Republican vote isn’t divided amongst 11 candidates.

[mewzilla]

Pouring OPM down a ‘Rat hole. Knock yourselves out, guys.

[Atlantan]

My prediction for the run-off. 55-45 Handel winning.

45% seems to be the ceiling for Dems in GA. In 2012 Obama got 45% in GA, in 2014 Jimmy Carter’s grandson got 45% when he ran for governor and Hillary got 45% in GA.

[mikesmad]

Wow, the older she gets the more she looks like Jimmy Carter.

[niteowl77]

DNC chair: Heck yes, we’re pouring more money into Ossoff

"And in the interests of symmetric air resistance and weight distribution, Scarlett Johanssen will join Alyssa Milano as a passenger in Ossoff's car as he drives self-indulgently around the district."

Mr. niteowl77

[Sacajaweau]

The fractured republican vote worked. We won!! We kept him from getting 50% and we didn’t show all our cards.

[Drew68]

Wow she already has bags under her eyes just like her mama.

She works so hard.

[Former Proud Canadian]

She looks this bad at 37? Imagine her in 10 years. Her face will stop clocks.

Web was kind of ugly too.

[Former Proud Canadian]

"Democrats are dead..."

We would all like to think so, but.

48% of the voters in this district voted for the dem. Even when you factor out the 2%(at least) who voted illegally it is still a lot.

I understand why certain brainwashed racial groups vote dem. Ditto for brain dead liberals, parasites, illegals, and college professors. What does that add up to? 35%? How anybody else with a job who pays taxes, has kids in school, or owns a house could vote dem is beyond me.

[Liz]

Voter fraud.

[Liz]

Ever since DNC’s Perez “predicted” the Dems would sweep every race based on “resistance” to Trump, the Dem losses just keep getting bigger. I guess Perez’s right-hand man Muslim Cong Ellison, turned Georgia around for them. (smirk)

B/C Ossoff went full Allah-is-Great Muslimite. I guess Georgians are anxiously awaiting Ossoff’s plans to mandate tax-funded clitorecotomies on little Georgian schoolgirls.

Clitorectomy is a mandated Muslim practice.

REFERENCE-—U.S. based pediatrician and fellow at the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Hatem Al Haj Elhagaly, is listed as a member of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA).

This ‘scholar’ issued a 2006 ‘fatwa’ (an authoritative Islamic law ruling), saying that Islam sanctioned female genital mutilaion as ‘better for the husband’ (his sexual enjoyment).

He acknowledged that ‘the majority of Islamic scholars regard it allowable and some consider it wajib (obligatory)........’ but advised that because FGM is illegal in the West, it should not be performed.”

And yet-—surprise-—it is being performed....just recently in Tennessee on school girls brought to emergency rooms...performed without parents’ knowledge or consent.

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Maybe Ossoff and Ellis can get the “tolerant and compassionate” unbigoted Meryl Streep and Michelle Obama to join in having their little girls get clitorectomies.

Maybe diversity queen, Rosie O’Donnell, should have it done....just to show her camaraderie w/ Muslims banished by that bad old Trump.

[nevergore]

Trust me, living here in the 6th for the past 35 years it’s being done ad nauseum.....

My mailbox is filled everyday with political ads from candidates and action committees....small forests are being decimated each day...

Can’t watch TV....attack or support ads every 4 1/2 minutes....

Radio is saturated......Even pop up ads on line for everyone in my zip code.....

Yes, Assoff doesn’t live in the 6th ....he can’t even vote for himself....has to sit it out....

[madprof98]

Love how Perez translated 48.1 percent into 49%. They simply cannot tell the truth.

[Taxman]

Webb Hubbell’s daughter? (http://blackbag.gawker.com/is-this-chelsea-clintons-real-father-1780376180)

Ya think?

[COBOL2Java]

Rush: If they couldn’t get 50% of the vote with 11 or 12 Republicans and $8 million advantage in spending and all of Hollywood’s influence, Samuel L. Jackson and, you know, whatever B-listers they brought in there, all the free local media that no doubt was in favor of the Democrats, and they still couldn’t pull this off. And yet they’re out there claiming moral victory. They’re out there claiming, oh, they came so close. Trump’s scared to death, they think. Trump’s sitting there and he’s barely able to get out of bed today, so razor close. Trump knows his days are numbered. Once they win this in June, Trump may as well resign and pack it in ’cause it’s over. That’s what they’re telling themselves. They had a bad candidate who was hyped and fueled beyond any realistic human experience and ability. He was aided and abetted by outside money from people who have no idea what that district is. Most of the people that gave money to this guy would need a visa to even find this district in Georgia. And once they went there they would never tell their friends they actually did. ‘Cause Georgia’s in the South, you know, and that’s where those Beauregard types live with the guns and babies and pro-life people. They went in there to help the guy. They had to sneak out of the cover of darkness so that none of their friends ever knew that they were there. It’s the Hillary campaign all over again in microcosm. And for a while they were telling themselves that Hillary won, that Russia cheated them. Now somehow this guy got cheated by somebody. Meanwhile, he was caught misleading voters about his resume, stated he had five years of experience as a national security aide with top secret clearance. He had clearance for five months. The guy was built up beyond any possibility of meeting these expectations. That’s why I say, my friends, I will continue to support the Democrats in victory after victory of this type for as long as they want.

[COBOL2Java]

Wow she already has bags under her eyes just like her mama.

Booze will do that.

[Former Proud Canadian]

I would ascribe part of it to voter fraud but there are a lot of tribal and otherwise brain dead voters out there.

[jmaroneps37]

Let them spend all they want. Money will get him on the stage and give him the mic; but with nothing to say he will become just another rich Democrat failure.

[Liz]

......there are a lot of tribal and otherwise brain dead voters out there.....

The usual Democratic base (smirk).

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Democrats just keep on destroying themselves with left-wing, liberal, progressive, fantasy. FUGITIVE, Barack Hussein Obama, Shoe Sales Woman, Hillary Clinton, and the entire Democrat Party, all set out in 2009, to destroy the American Republic and, create a progressive socialist, communist dynasty!!!

They failed...all of them...but...they have not failed in doing a great job of destroying themselves!!! They lost in Kansas, they lost in Georgia. They will lose in both Montana & Georgia in May and June, 2017!! Keep it up...Dems, Yep.....”Pajama Boy” John Ossoff is your fairytale!!!