Damn.
Just, damn.
Cobb County, GA, pulled that abhorrent woman through the needle eye to get her elected. Yes, the Chic-fil-A voters.
Oh, Gawd, the only saving grace is that we can obviously see the 6th District is gerrymandered.
Looking at precinct votes, the Right is losing ground in this district.
If you don’t know who this person, Karen Handel.
Here is a post I did a while back…
She won’t last past November 6, 2018. She’s never really been much of a success in Georgia politics anyway, showing up for any and all elections, but never really making much of an impact. Indeed, she does have name recognition because of that fact, but come next November she won’t be able to run and hide from the Trump failures.
DNC losers spent a shit ton of money losing as only DNC losers can do. Stupid ridiculous gobshites got everything wrong from recruitment to identifying the hill they wanted to die on to the massive amounts of money they wasted on a wishy washy nothing biscuit.
Tom Perez = Loser
Nancy Pelosi = Loser
Chuck Schumer = Loser
Deborah Wasserman Schultz = Loser
Donna Brasile = Loser
Not to mention Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the losingest losers of loserdom, who shaped and molded and staffed the most divided, incomprehensible DNC since the Civil War. God help us if we cannot force these incompetent lickspittals to relinquish their death grip on the party or it will disappear. It really will.
Another Atlanta local here.
I naturally hate to see Handel win, but to me her opponent was a weak candidate.
They outspent Ossoff 2 – 1 and only squeaked by against a young, inexperienced (but good) candidate. Still a huge rebuke to tRump and the GOP. They nearly lost the South Carolina race, too and that was even less likely to flip.
No, Ossoff outspent Handel 7-to-1.
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/bernie-sanders-may-have-won-even-though-jon-ossoff-lost-2555176
“There are people who, as I often say, would rather have first class seats going down with the Titanic, rather than change the course of the ship,” Sanders told IBT’s David Sirota last week. “There are people who have spent their entire lives in the Democratic Party, there are people who’ve invested a whole lot of money into the Democratic Party, they think the Democratic Party belongs to them.”
The Democrats lost “huge” last November.
So what did the Democratic Party do?
It kept it’s leadership team intact.
Corporatist neo-liberals Pelosi, Hoyer, Schumer, Durbin, Crowley, and the DNC’s Perez are leading the Democratic Party into oblivion.
The Dems lost the four “special elections” vacated by Trump appointees, but the seats they lost are in deep red districts which, btw, can still flip to blue a year and a half from now. None of the party’s leaders have expressed a truly progressive vision just yet, but that is about to change once all the results of the four elections are analyzed by the political scientists. Add those analyses with some other factors vis-a-vis the Trump regime’s policies and we may see Congress flip to blue in 2018. I remain an optimist!
The Democratic Party picked up a net 6 House seats and a net 2 Senate seats, in addition to having won the popular vote for Preznit by 3.5×10^6 votes. Hardly a finished Party.