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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

I agree-—it was a nothingburger. The title of the article was “Why Asshat Lost.” The author never told us.


81 posted on 06/22/2017 4:04:56 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Her hopes dashed, a dejected Hazel Hunt made her way through the crowd carrying a canvas on which she’d painted Ossoff’s portrait over an original poem, a limerick that began “There once was a country in pain.”

There once was a country in pain.
For Ossoff, great fame for to gain.
So they spent fifty mil,
but what a bitter pill.
Defeated with intense disdain.

Political limericks are "au courant!"

82 posted on 06/22/2017 4:06:12 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: cpdiii; Fightin Whitey
Jon Ossoff came in third, after #RodneyStooksbury. Karen Handel, 134,595, Rodney Stooksbury, 124,917, Jon Ossoff, 124,893.

#RodneyStooksbury ran against Tom Price in November 2016.

He didn't run a campaign - no advertising, nothing. No one knew who he was.

But he got 24 more votes than Assoff. 😀

83 posted on 06/22/2017 4:08:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: catnipman
on a more serious note, despite my earlier facetious post, the russians kept Dem voters from the polls by making it rain with pne of their weather modification satellites, knowing that Dems melt in the rain and therefore would have to stay home to avoid such deadly weather.

I thought that the Democrats learned through intensive field testing that if they soiled their drawers, it would help protect them from the melting...

84 posted on 06/22/2017 4:10:54 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: BenLurkin

More like flatulence.............


85 posted on 06/22/2017 4:18:24 PM PDT by Osage Orange (ItÂ’s nice to be important, but itÂ’s more important to be nice.)
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To: rbg81
"Maybe I’m missing it. This article is a big nothing burger."

Thanks, I thought it was just me, but that article was like a bread sandwich.

86 posted on 06/22/2017 4:28:26 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: SERKIT
It was raining, he lost, I laughed my Ossoff!

So, instead of limericks, you write haiku. Very good!

87 posted on 06/22/2017 4:30:33 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: PUGACHEV; huckfillary; Hardastarboard; cgbg; Mr. Lucky

Yup. It seems a lot of articles read like this now. All setting and no plot.


88 posted on 06/22/2017 4:45:30 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: kiryandil; cpdiii
Jon Ossoff came in third, after #RodneyStooksbury. Karen Handel, 134,595, Rodney Stooksbury, 124,917, Jon Ossoff, 124,893.

I guess I kept seeing references to that effect---someone else on the ballot---but I didn't know if they were talking about the primary, whatever.

So does this mean Stooksbury actually tipped (you might say pushed big-time) the election to Handel?

89 posted on 06/22/2017 5:18:29 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Oatka

‘Neglecting the point that most of the Democratic money came in from out of state and was WAY out of proportion to what the Republican received. ‘

First thing I noticed too.


90 posted on 06/22/2017 5:36:23 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Snickering Hound

I hate canvassers with a passion.

Had them up here in WI for a local election (judge). Slammed the door in one face.

My husband is the nice guy and he wasn’t happy I did that, but he’s learning with all these spam calls trying to get you to say “yes” and the other scam *charity* calls that call and call and call, no matter what.

When people who hate my President and have contempt for me because of my vote think they can harangue me in person, in public, over the phone, thru the mail and online to change my mind because they are right and I am wrong and then will not listen to MY POV, they have lost me.

In an unconventional way, our side is organized. We’re the immovable object and they are the very resistible force. They have to seek us out one-by-one, while presenting a large, visible and unpleasant-looking/sounding target.


91 posted on 06/22/2017 6:24:33 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: princeofdarkness

Holy crap this lady is so pathetic. She’s got mental issues in not being able to tell your child about an election result.
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There are many variants of this. Such as the 70-year-old from Marin whose grown daughters and their friends called on election night, distraught and in tears.

I said:”That’s stupid.”
She said:”It’s not stupid. These are privileged girls who have done a lot of community service.”
I left the room.

She was the only liberal in the room. We’ve all known each other 40+ years, some for fifty or sixty. Her husband is conservative, but he was gone fishing.(lucky guy). The daughters are all adults approaching 40. During the zer0 years, she was all unicorns and rainbows while her husband’s business was taking it in the gut.

To encourage your adult daughter to cry on the phone over an election loss and then to defend it by citing noblesse oblige is also beyond pathetic and indicative of serious mental issues, IMO.

This happened Father’s Day and I’m still irritated.


92 posted on 06/22/2017 6:44:15 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
‪Atlanta illegal voters! IRS Sent $46,378,040 in Refunds to 23,994 ‘Unauthorized’ Aliens at 1 Atlanta Address. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-sent-46378040-refunds-23994-unauthorized-aliens-1-atlanta-address‬
93 posted on 06/22/2017 7:05:00 PM PDT by ncfool (America Reborn 1/20/2017. Lets make sure we don't screw up,the opportunity to MAGA.)
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To: Fightin Whitey; cpdiii
So does this mean Stooksbury actually tipped (you might say pushed big-time) the election to Handel?

No.

#RodneyStooksbury ran in November 2016 against Tom Price, and got 24 more votes than jon Asslick.

And Stooksbury spent ZERO dollars.

94 posted on 06/22/2017 7:53:05 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Her hopes dashed, a dejected Hazel Hunt made her way through the crowd carrying a canvas on which she’d painted Ossoff’s portrait over an original poem, a limerick that began “There once was a country in pain.” Hunt’s green eyes were moist. “It’s very sad,” the middle-aged drama teacher told me. “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.

This woman is either a pathetic liar or a deluded CNN believer (possibly a combination of both). Her completely false-narrative "conclusions" are indicators of a potentially dangerous psychotic disorder.

95 posted on 06/23/2017 2:33:29 AM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

...the boy wonder of Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District...

If the Dems really want to know why they lost this election they can start right there.


96 posted on 06/23/2017 6:22:13 AM PDT by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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