It's just so freakin' ugly!
GYAAAAHHHHHH!
Posted on 04/19/2017 10:29:05 PM PDT by 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.
Carpet bagger
Some have written here that he doesn’t even live in Georgia - that he’s just using his “girlfriend’s” address (in another district) as cover. If this is true, the Republicans need to hit him on it.
If you haven't read the novel, Kip Chalmers has never been to California. But that doesn't deter him from deciding he wants to run for Senate from the place. He surrounds himself with sycophants and is confident that his friends among the power brokers will see that he gets elected.
En route to California the train Chalmers and his entourage are on derails. He insists that another train be made ready to carry him on.
It does not end well.
Pour all you got into this carpetbagger’s campaign. Heck...send hilLIARy out...and her Howdy - Doody daughter.
Pour all you got into this carpetbagger’s campaign. Heck...send hilLIARy out...and her Howdy - Doody daughter.
Some Georgia FReepers or others should make up signs saying “Jon Ossoff is Kip Chalmers.”
Or Barry and Michelle, along with Bernie, Pelosi, Cynthia McKinney and Howard Dean.
It would not be a liberal paradise without maxine waters. She’d give us 20 points just showing up and more if she opened her mouth.
He grew up in the 6th district. His family still lives there. He went to school in Atlanta. He has worked for 2 Atlanta area Georgia Congressmen. If you gave a pop quiz on local events, landmarks, restaurants, etc., he would probably do better than Karen Handel. Going that route would be a waste of resources. Much better to focus on his out of touch Progressive credentials.
It's just so freakin' ugly!
GYAAAAHHHHHH!
The Democrats seem to feel if they dump enough money into a campaign they can flip Georgia blue. Carter’s Grandson and Sam Nunn’s Grand Daughter were the last two. After the last two failures you would think they would learn. Working for the Guam Flipping congress critter, Hank Johnson, is hardly a recommendation.
Howdy doody emphasis on the doody
Wow she already has bags under her eyes just like her mama.
Exactly, and that is what they should use to attack him, not some nothingburger about where he lives.
well... somebody’s gotta do it!
If he’s a democrat then he is in appropriate company to be lying... his Ossoff!
Democrats are dead...but nobody has the decency to tell them.
Uh Dumbocrats? We know you want to groom Tossoff as the next obama but he is a white male. These 2 strikes are unforgivable disqualifications.
Put him in a dress and black face. Have him spew empty rhetoric about hope and change in espanol. Run him as a black tranny illegal dreamer and you cant lose
He prefers to be called jack than Jon... like the Kennedy
And because if he’s elected, that’s what he’ll do
Good point....it did seem odd when Ossoff sappily told an interviewer he lived w/ her for 12 years.....and says he’s thirty years old.
Repubs need to find out if he uses any other addresses for things like buying insurance, registering his car, credit cards, banking, etc.........and if votes from the g/f’s address...or from somehere else.
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