Dims already writing off GA 6th - Politico

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Democrats begin to wonder: When do we win?

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As it became clear late Tuesday evening that Jon Ossoff would fall just short of the 50-percent mark in the first round of voting in a suburban Atlanta special election, Democrats back in Washington started leafing through their calendars and asking: When does the winning start?

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Ossoff’s moral victory — capturing 48 percent of the vote in a conservative-oriented district — was welcome, but after two successive close-but-no-cigar finishes in House special elections in Georgia and Kansas, a new worry is beginning to set in.

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But the Democrat will be an underdog in that contest, when there won’t be a crowded field of Republicans to splinter the vote.

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After that, it’ll be another five months before the New Jersey and Virginia elections for governor, leaving some strategists and lawmakers wondering how to keep the furious rank-and-file voters engaged in fueling and funding the party’s comeback — especially given the sky-high expectations that surrounded Ossoff’s ultimately unsuccessful run

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Now, with Ossoff falling short of an outright win despite an unprecedented surge of campaign cash and national attention — in a district which Hillary Clinton lost by just one point in 2016 — comes the potential for another round of finger-pointing within the party.

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With the political map glaringly free of obvious near-term win opportunities,

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But if we define our success as winning in Kansas, Montana, and Georgia, we’re setting ourselves up for potential disappointment.

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