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Most Expensive House of Rep Election in History ... results are?

Melensdad

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A special election in Georgia, for a PARTIAL TERM, turns out to be a nail biter.

Democrats have pinned their hopes (and lots of dollars & hollywood star power) on winning this election. Hillary Clinton lost this district to Donald Trump by roughly 2% so its a close district. They are looking at the young Democrat as a "Trump slayer" who can throw a monkey wrench into the Trump agenda and turn around the losses that the Democrats have been seeing in elections as the Democratic party has taken a hard turn to the far left.

Spending by the campaigns and outside groups has topped $50 million, making it the most expensive house race in history.

For a house race in the rural south, the New York Times has taken special interest and is running live results here >>> https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/georgia-congressional-runoff-ossoff-handel

Way to close to call, but early 'projections' are that the Republican has a SLIGHT edge of just about 1% ... if things pan out as projected, this will be a major loss for the Democrats who have heavily publicized this election.

The seat has been held by the Republicans since the late 1970's but the Democrats believed it was nearly a sure bet to pick up this seat.
 

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Melensdad

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Looks like the GOP candidate is slowly pulling away.

When the polls closed the NYTimes had a projection giving her about a 1% point advantage.

A win of 2.6%, as is projected (and obviously subject to change moment by moment), would make this a major disappointment for the Democrats as that margin is outside of many of the advanced polls leading up to the election.
 

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Melensdad

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There was also a special election in South Carolina. The seat was opened when the prior member of the house took a job in the Trump administration.

The GOP candidate has been called as the winner in that race.

The South Carolina seat remains in the GOP column.
 

Melensdad

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And now the race is tightening up again ... The NYTimes has adjusted its forecast
 

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Melensdad

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Liberal website VOX is showing a wider margin that the other outlets, favoring the Republican.
 

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Melensdad

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Looks like Matt Drudge at the Drudge Report is calling the election for the GOP candidate.

No actual news organization has projected the outcome :hammer:

So Drudge is making its prediction early and doing so based on projections that are reported by news agencies.

This is a depressing night for the Democrats. They pinned their hopes on the Georgia seat and it appears to be slipping away.

They also lost the South Carolina seat has only been held by the GOP since 2010. It had been reliably a Democratic seat for 100 years.

2 special elections, both going to the GOP
 

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Doc

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Awesome!!!! Way to go Georgia!!! :clap: :clap: And thanks for the up to the minute updates Bob. :tiphat:
 

EastTexFrank

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The last thing that I saw was that she was declared the winner by a 6% margin. The NYT and the Democrats suck. :clap::clap::clap::clap:
 

Melensdad

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.....and the Demoncraps continue their slide toward oblivion. ...

I think this is the big take away from the elections yesterday :hammer:

The South Carolina seat flipped to the GOP but the popular Republican vacated the seat to work for the Trump admin. That seat had been a safe Democratic seat for more than a generation. It stayed firmly in the GOP column.

The Georgia seat was a GOP seat but was in a district that could have easily flipped to the Democrats.

The Democrats pinned their hopes on a candidate who came in from outside of the district and could not vote in the election. He was portrayed in campaign as being a bought and paid for candidate and as a California candidate because much of the money and support came from Pelosi & Hollywood.

Since Obama won, the GOP has grown to 33 governors, controls over 1/2 the state houses, and overall has taken roughly 1000 local, state & federal seats
from the Democrats. The Democrats are becoming a "regional" party. Two coasts (northeast + west) and a couple states.

Not to say the GOP is popular, it is not. The GOP has a bunch of RINOS with jelly spines and seemingly no conviction to follow through on promises. But even with the unpopularity of the GOP, it seems the Democrats are even less liked as rulers.
 

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Melensdad

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But Donald Trump Jr. won the internet last night with this tweet :yum:
 

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But Donald Trump Jr. won the internet last night with this tweet :yum:

I love it!!!!!! :clap:

I did have an interesting thought though. The Dems spent over $400 for every registered voter in the District and still couldn't win. Do you think that they would have more success next time if they stood outside the polling station and handed out $500 checks to the voters as they went in? It would probably be cheaper too as not all registered voters actually vote.
 
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Melensdad

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And the left melts down on Twitter.

Bear in mind that the WOMAN who won the election is highly qualified, was state treasurer, has experience. Bear in mind the MAN who won the "participation trophy" has NO experience and was not legally allowed to vote for himself.

But the leftists are upset that a woman won.

And some blame Trump?

Others are just clueless.
 

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tiredretired

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Not to say the GOP is popular, it is not. The GOP has a bunch of RINOS with jelly spines and seemingly no conviction to follow through on promises. But even with the unpopularity of the GOP, it seems the Democrats are even less liked as rulers.

Yup. If the Pubs could ever get their crap together and wake up they could even chip into those regional areas a little. Prolly never the big cities. It takes free shit to win there.
 

FrancSevin

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The polls weren't wrong again, they were just more lies. If Hollywood money and charm couldn't buy a simple, small, Congressional election Nobody can.
This makes the Special Election Sweepstakes 5 to 0 for the GOP.

Perhaps the Democrats should reject the "anything but Trump" approach and alter their nothing burger message to something Americans would actually want to hear.
 

jimbo

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If you're keeping score, so far this election cycle since Nov 8 it's:

President - 0 fer 1

Specials - 0 fer 2

Congress - Both houses - 0 fer 2

Overall - 0 fer 1100.

But what I see is close counts. It's the EC, Comey, MSM, Russia.

Yea, that must be it.
 

rugerman

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There were 5 elections up for grabs the republicans won all 5, looks like the conservatives are rising up to squash the liberal beast and take back the United States. I guess enough folks got fed up with the liberal policies of the obama administration that they decided to strike back at the ballot box. Now we need to strike back at the trouble makers in the Republican Party (McCain, etc) and get the ball rolling in the right direction. And it would be nice if the congress critters would quit letting the democrats run the show and stop all this special prosecutor crap and get back to running the country and it would be really great if they would get FULLY behind Donald Trump and push his agenda, the republicans control both the houses of congress, so come on guys act like winners and do something!
 

waybomb

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My favorite new saying to the snowflakes - "I am still laughing my Ossoff!"
Oooo, they don't like that when it hits them.
 

tiredretired

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The Dummocrats need to keep doing what they are doing. They need to continue to obstruct, resist, whine, cry, carry on and generally just be themselves. I love it. :clap::clap:
 

waybomb

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But I gotta tell y'all, these republicans better get off their ass and support Trump out the next election voters will stay home and the dummos still win.
What new law was enacted or was repealed by these pubs?
 

EastTexFrank

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The excuse I've been hearing from the libs on other forums is that Ga and SC, and the others are conservative strongholds which a liberal had no chance if winning. Which of course means that libs pissed off $34 million ona predetermined loss.

Yup, and they don't care. It's other people's money. :biggrin:
 
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