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Live Election Results: Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District

poweRob said:
This is the special election that's being held today to replace trumps appointment of Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services.


There are a lot of contestants in this special election if no one recieves an outright majority of 50.1% then there will be a runoff.
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Runoff. Living south of Atlanta I seen a ton of Ossoff political ads on TV and none for any of the Republicans. My assumption is and you know what they say about assumptions. My assumption is the Democrats poured tons of money into this thing trying to get Ossoff his 50% plus one to probably almost no money for the GOP's 11 candidates. With 11 candidates which one would the Republicans support?

Price has won that district with 60% plus in every election he ran in there. Now we have a runoff which usually doesn't get but around 10% turnout. But Special elections down here doesn't usually get much more than that either. This one was much different as I wouldn't be surprised if the turnout was at presidential race level or perhaps above. So history and usual doesn't apply it seems in order to forecast a winner in the runoff.

Price won that district with 61.6% of the vote last November. But if Ossoff can make the runoff about Trump, he has a chance. One has to remember is Trump won Georgia with 51% of the vote. By comparison Isakson our senator won his seat with 55%, Price as I mentioned with 61%. Trump by in large ran behind other winning GOP candidates here. Does that mean anything in the runoff? Probably not. Unless the runoff becomes a battle about Trump. But I suspect the Democrats will indeed try to make the runoff about Trump, the Republicans will try to make it about Pelosi. If anyone is more hated down here than Pelosi, I don't know who it is. That is outside of the Atlanta area which is very liberal and very Democratic.
 
Fishking said:
Eh...they can't seem to run anything efficiently that's not merely obstructing someone else. Now that they don't have Obama in the WH to blame, and they control both houses, they don't seem to know what to do with themselves or who to point the finger at.

7 years they talked about repealing Obamacare and putting something better in place, never thinking they'd be in the position to do anything about it. Then they are and they rush to slap some BS together that was probably written in crayon.
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Well they survived to a runoff. Repub chances are MUCH better now that it'll be a one on one.
 
jmotivator said:
Is anything I said false? No? Thought so.



Definitely don't want to start a battle when you have the queen mother of carpet-baggers on your side! ;)
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riiiiggghht
 
Perotista said:
Runoff. Living south of Atlanta I seen a ton of Ossoff political ads on TV and none for any of the Republicans. My assumption is and you know what they say about assumptions. My assumption is the Democrats poured tons of money into this thing trying to get Ossoff his 50% plus one to probably almost no money for the GOP's 11 candidates. With 11 candidates which one would the Republicans support?

Price has won that district with 60% plus in every election he ran in there. Now we have a runoff which usually doesn't get but around 10% turnout. But Special elections down here doesn't usually get much more than that either. This one was much different as I wouldn't be surprised if the turnout was at presidential race level or perhaps above. So history and usual doesn't apply it seems in order to forecast a winner in the runoff.

Price won that district with 61.6% of the vote last November. But if Ossoff can make the runoff about Trump, he has a chance. One has to remember is Trump won Georgia with 51% of the vote. By comparison Isakson our senator won his seat with 55%, Price as I mentioned with 61%. Trump by in large ran behind other winning GOP candidates here. Does that mean anything in the runoff? Probably not. Unless the runoff becomes a battle about Trump. But I suspect the Democrats will indeed try to make the runoff about Trump, the Republicans will try to make it about Pelosi. If anyone is more hated down here than Pelosi, I don't know who it is. That is outside of the Atlanta area which is very liberal and very Democratic.
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That seems sound. I don't like to guess anymore. About as much as I will guess is, there will be tons of money from both sides dumped into this and due to my skepticism, I'd say the GOPer will win now that it's one on one and the sheep will now fall in line like they always do.
 
poweRob said:
That seems sound. I don't like to guess anymore. About as much as I will guess is, there will be tons of money from both sides dumped into this and due to my skepticism, I'd say the GOPer will win now that it's one on one and the sheep will now fall in line like they always do.
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I suspect you're right. It will all depend on turn out. Turnout for this special election was extremely high compared to the norm. Over 200,000 people voted. Last November, a presidential election for comparison 312,000 voted. Usually special election and runoffs draws well under 100,000. Most of the time less than 50,000.

It will probably boil down to which side is motivated the most. Trump does have a positive approval rating in the 6th district 51% to 41% disapprove. But will they turn out?
 
Let's briefly review a few facts, here.

In 2002, Georgia adopted the use of electronic voting machines. In the 2002 midterm election, somehow miraculously the state elects its first Republican governor since reconstruction.

And now, a woman gains the most votes of all the Republicans in spite of well-documented misogyny among voters, especially in red districts.

HHHHHHHHHHHmmmmmmmmmmmmm......
 
Anagram said:
Ossoff's not hitting his margins to avoid a runoff. And I think a two month campaign without Republican infighting full of tying Ossoff to Pelosi will probably keep this seat in GOP hands.
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ossoff has made great inroads in that district...don't be shocked if he wins the runoff
 
jmotivator said:
No, not really. With the number of Republicans in the race there was always going to be a run off. Hillary got 47.5% in GA, and they pumped millions into this race, and had big Hollywood names invested in this race and they only bettered their numbers by 0.6%.
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That run-off is always between 2 republicans. Are you really gonna pretend this is a non-story? How funny. And Hillary didn't get that in this district.
 
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