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Why Ossoff Lost
The Atlantic ^ | June 21, 2017 | Molly Ball

Posted on 06/22/2017 1:49:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: rbg81

...with cheese.


41 posted on 06/22/2017 2:25:59 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Oatka

Yep! Use the power of the federal government to force me to buy insurance I can’t afford, then fine me when I don’t buy it, so other people get free healthcare, when I had insurance prior to Obama getting involved.
Yeah that’s a winning platform
If you like your congressman, you can keep you congressman.


42 posted on 06/22/2017 2:27:17 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

We in Georgia rebelled as we did with Hillary!


43 posted on 06/22/2017 2:29:34 PM PDT by CptnObvious
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To: Liz

....It got ugly——police were killed to get the Dems off the property...

A new classic autocorrect good.


44 posted on 06/22/2017 2:29:38 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"But it was Georgia, in this well-off, well-educated suburban district, where Democrats had focused their attention . . . ."

When will these "well-educated" and supremely arrogant Northeastern and West Coast "progressive" regressives begin to understand how offensive are their ignorant comments about the education level of the millions and millions of American supporters of the President?

They and the generation before them are in a pattern of denigrating the intelligence and education levels of Republican candidates which has become like a mirror into their own arrogant minds and souls!

They, and their parrots in the "progressive" regressive media outlets preen each other, compliment each other on their self-perceived intellectual levels, all the while, they appear foolish and unlearned to truly educated critical thinkers out there. They've done it so often, it's predictable.

There, got that off this mind!

45 posted on 06/22/2017 2:32:40 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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I honestly think that Social Media is destroying the Democrat Party. They used to control the narrative, but nowadays it is almost impossible for them to hide their evil.


46 posted on 06/22/2017 2:34:03 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: cgbg
It was hard to write a boring article about this really interesting race—but the author managed to do it!

Agreed, but there were several "tells" such as the following and the fact that the canvassers harassed the parents to talk to their kids.


Most of the Ossoff volunteers I met were local residents who had grown up somewhere else, longtime Democrats who had long felt outnumbered. In the end, they were no match for their neighbors’ deeply rooted political allegiances, and they may have become a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
47 posted on 06/22/2017 2:34:12 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Cowboy Bob

Ossoff is a jagoff thats why.


48 posted on 06/22/2017 2:34:17 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Everyone talks about how Ossoff won’t mention Trump, right? But when I give a speech about respect and civility and kindness and decency, am I not talking about Trump?”

They are so morally vain that if you aren’t a liberal, you are cruel, indecent, and evil etc. A lib friend of mine slipped when telling me about someone of whom she approved,”He’s a good liberal.” She meant, “He’s a good, kind, decent person.”

I think the author feels this is why Ossof lost. Too “kind” in the face of too much “evil.” I think the MSM would like to encourage more bike-locks-upside-the-head and less Stewart Smalley (Al Franken’s SNL character who admires himself in a mirror, doggone it he liked himself).


49 posted on 06/22/2017 2:36:02 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ossoff is WORSE than he seems! He studied under mega-anti-Serbian hater and mass-murderer Madeleine Albright (HALFBRIGHT) at Georgetown!!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Ossoff

Why did he lose? 1. He looks like Pajama Boy aged by 10-12 years!

2. His supporters still don’t get it!!!! For example, see the comment by Hazel Hunt: “It tells me that despite all the wonderful people I met in this campaign, there are still a lot of people who support the meanness and ignorance and tearing each other apart” that she saw Trump as representing.

She needs to meet a few Trump supporters, and realize what we’re really about!


50 posted on 06/22/2017 2:42:05 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The DNC thought that Michelle Numn could win. The DNCtjought Hillary would take Georgia. Seems to me the DNC is ill informed

Real reason Ossoff lost is because he is Paul Ryan’s body double


51 posted on 06/22/2017 2:44:35 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Was it because his opponant recieved more votes?

[Slaps forehead] But of course! How did we overlook it?

52 posted on 06/22/2017 2:47:38 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just another snowflake girlyman, hand-picked by that botoxed hag Nancy Pelosi.


53 posted on 06/22/2017 2:47:45 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: MeganC

+1


54 posted on 06/22/2017 2:48:06 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: BenLurkin

Good one!


55 posted on 06/22/2017 2:49:22 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I just decided, this cannot be where my kids grow up, this cannot be what is happening around them,” she told me over a plate of shrimp tacos. “Sometimes it takes feeling personally attacked to get people to be active.”


Dear God, her situation sounds as desperate as the defenders of Stalingrad as the Wehrmacht was closing in.


56 posted on 06/22/2017 2:49:56 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Flick Lives

They had shrimp tacos? That never made it in the history books.


57 posted on 06/22/2017 2:51:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Fightin Whitey
Handel final tally (R) 51.9% Ossoff final tally (D) 48.1% Handel by 3.8%. Solid win.

Thanks for the correction. My orginal 6% win number came from the election night tallys and was not complete.

58 posted on 06/22/2017 2:53:07 PM PDT by cpdiii ( Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. CONSTITUTUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Sasparilla
A new classic autocorrect good.

Someone should collect these.

My favorite was someone's comment on McMansions => 'The taxes and upkeep will kill you, plus you have to hire interior desecrators.'

59 posted on 06/22/2017 2:53:15 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Why Ossoff Lost”

because more people voted for Handel than Ossoff?


60 posted on 06/22/2017 2:53:25 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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