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Georgia 6th here's the MSM Spin
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:36 am
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:36 am
Gleaned from Google News this AM:
Democrats didn't win outright in Georgia. But here's why they're still celebrating.
Washington Post
Republicans avoided calamity in this month's two special elections, but a lot more peril lies ahead
Washington Post
Georgia Has a Message for Republicans: Be Worried
Bloomberg
Georgia Didn't Affirm Trump
New York Times
How Georgia vote shows Trump not so invincible
CNN
In Georgia, Democrat falls a few votes shy of outright victory
STLtoday
Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, Narrowly Misses Outright Win in Georgia House Race
New York Times
Republicans avoid big loss by forcing runoff in Ga. House race
Washington Post
Democrats didn't win outright in Georgia. But here's why they're still celebrating.
Washington Post
Republicans avoided calamity in this month's two special elections, but a lot more peril lies ahead
Washington Post
Georgia Has a Message for Republicans: Be Worried
Bloomberg
Georgia Didn't Affirm Trump
New York Times
How Georgia vote shows Trump not so invincible
CNN
In Georgia, Democrat falls a few votes shy of outright victory
STLtoday
Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, Narrowly Misses Outright Win in Georgia House Race
New York Times
Republicans avoid big loss by forcing runoff in Ga. House race
Washington Post
This post was edited on 4/19/17 at 8:38 am
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Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:38 am to AdamsHouseCat
quote:
Democrats didn't win outright in Georgia. But here's why they're still celebrating.
Washington Post
quote:
Georgia Has a Message for Republicans: Be Worried
Bloomberg ?
quote:
Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, Narrowly Misses Outright Win in Georgia House Race
New York Times - ?5 hours ago?
Republicans avoid big loss by forcing runoff in Ga. House race
Washington Post
None of these are that bad.
What they're saying about the 6th is true. Claiming this was some blow to Trump, or even tying it to Trump at all, is dumb at this point.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:40 am to AdamsHouseCat
The overall embarrassing aspect of this vote, the fact that one Democrat could not get a majority of the votes among a smorgasbord of Republicans. That's rather pitiful if we're being honest here.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:41 am to AdamsHouseCat
No offense to the fine citizens of GA06, but it's pretty stupid to extrapolate the views of 125-150,000 people in a random special election to the general population. The political news cycle needs to feed and this is currently the only thing on the menu.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:41 am to Pettifogger
i can't wrap my mind around the public interest on this
it's 1 seat, who cares?
it's 1 seat, who cares?
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:43 am to AdamsHouseCat
quote:
Georgia Has a Message for Republicans: Be Worried
This is correct. Republicans poured millions into a race that no Democrat had gotten over 40% in this century, only to barely (rain storm in Dekalb) force a run-off with their most unpopular candidate.
There are 26 districts that Clinton beat Trump in that are represented by Republicans. This isn't one of them. If they have to defend GA-06, they're beyond screwed in Nov 2018.
This post was edited on 4/19/17 at 8:54 am
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:43 am to Homesick Tiger
quote:
The overall embarrassing aspect of this vote, the fact that one Democrat could not get a majority of the votes among a smorgasbord of Republicans. That's rather pitiful if we're being honest here.
Eh, I don't think so.
When you factor in that you had a young candidate with tons of national attention and tons of money, MAYBE it's embarrassing, but it was in a CD that is traditionally hostile.
The GA GOP is a far more competent organization than the GA Dems, but cobbling together a bunch of very "meh" Republican candidates and just barely sending this to a runoff is not exactly a shining moment.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:44 am to DelU249
quote:
i can't wrap my mind around the public interest on this
People are just looking for cracks in Trump. This happened to a lesser extent with state wide elections post-Obama.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:46 am to BamaAtl
quote:is that the message here
Georgia Has a Message for Republicans
1 congressional district in Georgia, holy shite. I guess when you're starving you'll eat up any crumb you can get. this is clearly one of those things where the coverage dictates interest instead of the other way around
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:46 am to BamaAtl
quote:
This is correct. Republicans pored millions into a race that no Democrat had gotten over 40% in this century, only to barely (rain storm in Dekalb) force a run-off with their most unpopular candidate.
There are 26 districts that Clinton beat Trump in that are represented by Republicans. This isn't one of them. If they have to defend GA-06, they're beyond screwed in Nov 2018.
This is stupid. This was probably the most concerted effort to take back a single R seat in the House in a decade, and there is still a pretty good chance it fails.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:46 am to Pettifogger
quote:
Eh, I don't think so.
Then this:
quote:
When you factor in that you had a young candidate with tons of national attention and tons of money, MAYBE it's embarrassing, but it was in a CD that is traditionally hostile.
The GA GOP is a far more competent organization than the GA Dems, but cobbling together a bunch of very "meh" Republican candidates and just barely sending this to a runoff is not exactly a shining moment.
Sounds as if you're arguing against the first quote with the second quote.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:47 am to Homesick Tiger
quote:
Sounds as if you're arguing against the first quote with the second quote.
Not really. I'm saying that I can see how you'd plausibly argue it in a straight-faced manner.
But I still don't think it's true.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:48 am to Pettifogger
quote:the entire board was into this one. I think it's the same way people dig sports or debate/confrontation television.
People are just looking for cracks in Trump.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:50 am to DelU249
I think it's just the nature of the election-obsessed political crowd.
You feed on numbers and drama and gaffes for 18 months or so, then it stops, and so when someone gives you a chance to get after it again, you take it.
It's like people who get really into the first college football game in late August that features Hawaii playing MTSU or some shite.
You feed on numbers and drama and gaffes for 18 months or so, then it stops, and so when someone gives you a chance to get after it again, you take it.
It's like people who get really into the first college football game in late August that features Hawaii playing MTSU or some shite.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:50 am to DelU249
quote:There isn't a real public interest. The Democrats tried to make it a big deal so that they could raise a lot of money and win because they desperately want a victory somewhere.
i can't wrap my mind around the public interest on this it's 1 seat, who cares?
They could then use that victory to create the narrative that Trump is destroying the GOP and rally support for Democrats going forward.
And of course, because the Democrats and their partners in the media made such a big deal of this, the Republicans on this board and elsewhere paid attention just to watch the Dems fail again and now they get to laugh at them.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:52 am to AdamsHouseCat
I hope nate plastic polls this one out.
Come on liberals, tell us how Ossoff is going to win.
Come on liberals, tell us how Ossoff is going to win.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:53 am to Pettifogger
I mean twitter was mind boggling
kevin spacey is hosting the tonys...I mean, kevin spacey came out of the closet. that's news. that's interesting. at the very least...it's funny.
kevin spacey is hosting the tonys...I mean, kevin spacey came out of the closet. that's news. that's interesting. at the very least...it's funny.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:54 am to Pettifogger
quote:
This was probably the most concerted effort to take back a single R seat in the House in a decade, and there is still a pretty good chance it fails.
And a pretty good chance it succeeds - which is what is scaring Republicans.
The fact that you can even consider losing this seat is a bad sign.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:54 am to AdamsHouseCat
Madman!
Today, "*1:20PM THE PRESIDENT greets the Super Bowl Champions: The New England Patriots*
be a Falcons/Ossoff supporter in the 6th district today..
Today, "*1:20PM THE PRESIDENT greets the Super Bowl Champions: The New England Patriots*
be a Falcons/Ossoff supporter in the 6th district today..
Posted on 4/19/17 at 8:55 am to PrimeTime Money
quote:
There isn't a real public interest
Voter turnout nearly matched the midterm in 2014.
For a special election in April.
Yeah, no interest...
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