From the comment section:
I lived in Dunwoody, Georgia for five years(1982-1988) and it was in the GA-6 district. The controlling factor in this race is not the liberal regions of northern Fulton and Dekalb counties. Those regions have a large compononet of Democrat voters, but not enough to control the election. Conservative Cobb county will control this election, if they turn out. And there seems to be no reason that they won’t.
Handel by three to five points.
In talking to past aquiantances in Atlanta, many people are not trusting the polling. And all the local media is solidly in Osoff’s court, and not disguising it one bit.
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I agree with him on every aspect but the winner (I’m a GA6 resident). Handel will indeed make this closer than it should be, but she will win by 2 pts. Like Nunn and Carter there is hand wringing about losing to the D. This will be closer than these two races, but the R’s will turnout enough to win. Not sure D can grow anymore then 4/20 primary results. A majority R district will win, if they show up.
As a resident of the 6th District and Cobb County, I can tell you that all the blue John O. signs will just drive even more Republicans to the polls to defend our turf.
Tom Price won this dist with 61% of the vote. I don’t see Handel losing even though she runs a crappy campaign.
I hope that the portion of “conservative Cobb County” located in GA-6 truly is conservative and does turn out. Cobb County overall went for HRC in the 2016 election, but Cobb County is also a part of the heavily Democratic 5th District.