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Posted on 12/09/2025 6:49:26 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Democrats continued their run of successes in special elections by flipping a state House seat in Georgia Tuesday, according to a projection from the CNN Decision Desk.
The Democratic victory, in a district that voted for President Donald Trump by about 12 percentage points last year, comes ahead of next year’s critical midterms, when Georgians will vote in closely watched races for Senate and governor.
Eric Gisler, a Democrat who owns a local olive oil store, will defeat Republican Mack “Dutch” Guest in the 121st House District, in the northeastern part of the state, near the college town of Athens.
Between regularly scheduled elections in Virginia and New Jersey and special elections held on newly redrawn maps in Mississippi, Democrats flipped about 20 state legislative seats on Election Day last month. Those victories came after Democrats flipped two seats in Iowa and one in Pennsylvania during special elections earlier in the year.
Republicans still control a significant majority in the Georgia House, but Tuesday’s results come just a month after Democrats won two statewide elections to flip two seats on the state’s Public Service Commission.
The district has been without representation since Republican Marcus Wiedower resigned at the end of October.
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I can’t trust the source.
Darn you Dominion voting machines.
Me thinks skullduggery afoot.
We have to start voting in odd year Elections from now on.
I’m watching the demographics of these areas change with my own eyes. The great state of Georgia is being infiltrated by the left, Muslims and tons of illegals.
Lots of H1B visas moving in.
More like “skulldimmery”. Near Athens, GA tells me a lot of soviet socialists engaged in the vote. I fear we are sitting back and laughing at how ridiculous the woke communists are at presenting their policy views and self evident hypocrisy while it tells their base they are all in on their perceptions. Afraid all they need to con is 5-10% of the electorate. A little bad economic news or a failed peace plan and the media will provide the push
Our people don’t work hard enough. They put it all on Trump. What happens when he’s no longer on the ballot?
State House...that’s just getting out the vote, a little cheating and telling constituents...drinks are on the house.
Our people don’t work hard enough. They put it all on Trump. What happens when he’s no longer on the ballot?
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The unfortunate truth is that payback will be what happens after Trump.
Do they vote?
Yep. At the last vote I saw more Indians voting than previously.
Low turnout off schedule elections can be a crap shoot. Probably had lots of foot soldiers pushing turnout from Athens.
Who cares? It’s a state House seat.
Miami has a Democrat Mayor for the first time in 30 years. But everything is awesome on this site.
College town ...
And it’s with that precise attitude, GOP-ers lose and a state like Georgia has not one but two hyper-progressive Democrats in the US Senate. 🙄
Republicans are generally not good at voting in off year and special elections.
There are special elections all over the place today (Iowa, Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma). This appears to be the only major upset, but the “10-point swing to the left” thing is still happening in a lot of places.
Low-turnout special elections often do not forecast future outcomes; they didn’t when Democrats won some of those unexpectedly in 2023-24 (and then lost those districts right back in the next general election). It’s not something you can ALWAYS count on, though.
Now that “bad results are happening only in blue states” has been proven to be a lie — even before tonight — the GOP might not simply want to look ahead to 2026 by relying on empty platitudes such as “things change” and “12 months is an eternity in politics”.
Perhaps they ought to look at how the electorate feels and see if anything has changed between 2024 and now, and not ignorantly treat every adverse result as if it’s nothing more than a fluke.
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