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Democrat Jon Ossoff Is Gaining Ground in Georgia Special Election to Replace Tom Price
New York Magazine ^ | March 24, 2017 | Ed Kilgore

Posted on 03/27/2017 5:52:48 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

The collapse of Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare was bad news for Donald Trump’s HHS secretary, Tom Price, who will have to deal with bitter recriminations between his old friends in the House and his new boss in the White House.

But you know what would make Price feel a whole lot worse? Being replaced in the House by a Democrat.

For the first time, Democratic hopes of picking off this seat, once occupied by Senator Johnny Isakson, and before that by Newt Gingrich, are beginning to look like something more than wishful thinking. With the first round of the “jungle primary” fast approaching on April 18, Democratic candidate (and former congressional staffer) Jon Ossoff is no longer just an incredibly well-funded neophyte likely to make a runoff against the survivor of an internecine battle between Republicans. He’s now clearly competitive in the runoff as well as the first round.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 115th; georgia; jonossoff; ossoff; southerndemocrats; specialelection; tomprice
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1 posted on 03/27/2017 5:52:48 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

what a flippin crap stretch on Price, then using Price to make your article...


2 posted on 03/27/2017 5:59:45 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

His are the only campaign adds I have heard starting several weeks ago. Lots of money backing him.


3 posted on 03/27/2017 6:00:22 PM PDT by wrench
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Tom Price proved himself not worth a crap. He actually supported that horrible Obamacare 2.o bill. He is finished in my boo. How could he mislead our President so badly?


4 posted on 03/27/2017 6:00:39 PM PDT by WENDLE ("Sanctuary" cities break federal criminal law!!-- JAIL!!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I’ll believe it when I see it. I live in this district. He does have a lot of ads, but I think Democrats are just hyping up a candidate who’ll eventually lose by around double digits.


5 posted on 03/27/2017 6:01:42 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

So what? What am I missing?

Kathleen Sebilius was raised from the dead as an out of office former governor to run the HHS, for Obama.

Tom Price does not have to be defeated in office.


6 posted on 03/27/2017 6:03:04 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Also, Republicans are now running this commercial against Ossoff quite a bit. It's the most hilarious political ad I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztJlZ3Ndbw4

7 posted on 03/27/2017 6:03:49 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: WENDLE

Price never did anything in the House and to make things worse, he was Boehner’s boy.


8 posted on 03/27/2017 6:04:59 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Todays Media - Report the TRUTH and acts of TREASON and get fired. Ask Judge Napolitano.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

And Texas is in play, too.


9 posted on 03/27/2017 6:07:40 PM PDT by 05 Mustang GT Rocks
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

noooooooooooooooooooo


10 posted on 03/27/2017 6:08:27 PM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks

TX and GA are now swing states . I was told that off the media, and the polls . SIGH.


11 posted on 03/27/2017 6:18:19 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: wrench

Moody has lots of ads out


12 posted on 03/27/2017 6:23:14 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

People are going to demand, and get, universal taxpayer funded health care of some sort.

Either Trump figures out how to do it without destroying the system, or the Democrats will figure it out with their new majorities in 2018.

Somebody has to get it in the neck. It might as well be the insurance industry.


13 posted on 03/27/2017 6:23:56 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

How does he have a chance after the Star Wars commercial? No way he wins. Other than possibly too many Republican candidates to concentrate the vote.


14 posted on 03/27/2017 6:24:03 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Trump20162020

I would agree with your assessment. The worst Tom Price ever did vote percentage wise was 61%. He had two race since 2004 where he was virtually unopposed.

Unless Karen Handel is found in bed with a dead boy or live girl, she will be the next Rep from Georgia.


15 posted on 03/27/2017 6:26:50 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Nifster

Where does he advertise? What are his target markets?


16 posted on 03/27/2017 6:28:23 PM PDT by wrench
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
If there is one thing that is hardened fact, it is that New York does not understand Georgia politics.

Period.

17 posted on 03/27/2017 6:32:00 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

In 1969, a Democrat in WI was elected to succeed Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird; was it David Obey?


18 posted on 03/27/2017 6:32:54 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: Jim Noble
Somebody has to get it in the neck. It might as well be the insurance industry.

I'm sure they'll be glad to get it in the neck. Insurance companies are finding themselves in more and more situations where they're being asked to sell crap that isn't profitable for them.

A health insurance carrier today is similar to a property/casualty insurance company that is trying to dump all of its customers who are located on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

19 posted on 03/27/2017 6:33:27 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Hollywood backing is in play so beware. Total war.


20 posted on 03/27/2017 6:37:48 PM PDT by onona (Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
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