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      I expected Ossoff to win; he was already the incumbent and there wasn’t anything wrong with him.

      But HOLY SHIT KLB IS PROJECTED TO WIN TOO AND GA IS GONNA HAVE A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR! And she was (IMO) a much weaker candidate vs. Rick Jackson than Ossoff was against Collins. That one is an absolute slaughter compared to what I expected.

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        I know, I looked last night at the governor race and saw that only two write-ins were reported out of around 3 million counted. That feels serious.

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      Jon Ossoff’s win isn’t particularly surprising; not as competitive as Texas, Iowa, Michigan, Maine, Kansas, or even Florida or South Carolina.

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          It’s 60-40 now. It’s still a comfortable win, but you have to take into account Republicans generally not voting early.

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          his opponent probably helped some… mike collins being a far far faaaar right nutjob who did some pretty dumb things previously and during this campaign.

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            Still, we’re talking about the state that elected Marjorie Taylor Greene more than once.

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              No, we’re talking about the state that already had two Democratic Senators for the past six years. Judging all of GA on the 14th district is just plain hateful.

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              rome and dalton. the far northwest corner bordering tennessee and alabama… the most skewed-republican electorate of any district in georgia… a toad in a tutu would’a won there with an ® by its name on the ballot.

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                And even there, the Democratic candidate is currently at 40.7% of the vote with 89% of precincts reporting.

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        Would be nice if Iowa’s candidate didn’t keep shooting themselves. So far has been running the classic dem campaign of doing everything they can to lose while ahead

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    Anyone know of any sites that are keeping track of how much money conservatives spent against Democrats, only to lose?