Posted on 05/23/2017 2:05:27 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
A new poll shows Democrat Jon Ossoff with a 7-point lead against Republican Karen Handel ahead of the runoff election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District.
Of the 700 voters interviewed in the SurveyUSA poll conducted for Atlanta TV station WXIA, Ossoff leads with 51 percent compared to Handel’s 44 percent. Six percent of respondents were undecided and the margin of error was 4.3 percent.
Voters in the district were surveyed as evenly split on the Republican proposal to replace the 2010 health care law signed by former President Barack Obama, with 47 percent supporting and an equal number opposing.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
I live in this district and I knew the race was over the moment the Judge demanded registration be re-opened after the run-off became a fact.
I knew the fix was in and that we had no chance. It’s simple. There is a freaking massively funded Democrat push going on in the district and every single Democrat voter in the area has Democrats from neighboring districts using their address to register for the 6th.
My ability to choose who represents me in the House is being stolen right in front of me and their is nothing I can do about it.
Good summary, Lizzy. Thanks for the ping to it!
SurveyUSA used to be reliable, but in the last few election cycles they have been way off. For example - they consistently showed the race between McConnell and Grimes in 2014 to be close, and with Grimes even ahead or even a couple of times. McConnell won by about 14 points. Not close. The next year in 2015, they consistently showed Conway, the Democrat candidate for governor, consistently ahead of Matt Bevin in every poll by about 5 points. Bevin won by 9 points...even if the poll was “accurate”, the GOP turnout machine far outpaced the Dems...despite the history Bevin had with McConnell, the GOP machine was up and running full steam ahead.
That doesn’t mean they are wrong here, and the turnout machine needs to be going full blast as though it is correct. High turnout of your own people can overtake polls even if they are accurate.
True or not, the result if she loses wouldn’t be about her or Paul Ryan - it would be entirely about President Trump - the press narrative would be that he is in a full state of collapse if she loses - her name would hardly be even mentioned if at all...it would be wall to wall national coverage, nonstop for days...it would be as though everything that happened last November (and since then...the Dems have kept on losing elections) had been cancelled out and we now see where the American public “truly” stands.
Therefore, let’s win it so we don’t have to see that scenario come to pass.
LOL - that's great.
If she wants to win, she would have commercials that distances herself from both parties (like Ossoff does). That she will represent the district not the establishment. Its up to her if she wins or not.
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