Yeah, in the other thread I was going to say that even though I am inclined to dislike R politicians, Kelly Loefler is the only female one that triggers the visceral distaste I have for Hillary and Nancy.
Martha McSally is not a good politician either but that stems mainly from being a really bad liar acting very unnaturally doing what she knows to be wrong in the Trump era. She would have been a standard viable R politician in the Bush/Romney/McCain era, imo.
Yeah this is all just awful. We should never lose to this person in a state Biden managed to win by any margin.
is there any polling for these races yet? any actual data around whether trump’s antics are hurting the GOP?
Can you imagine how fucking bad the Dems brand must be that people literally think they are voting for stability and norms when they vote Biden then Reps down ballot?
Anyone have this info handy? In past Georgia runoffs, how much decline in turnout is there between a general in a presidential election year and the runoff?
It wasn’t a runoff (I don’t believe) but you could look at 2016 Prez vs. 2017 Special in GA-06.
Edit: I looked. 326,005 total votes vs. 260,455.
I don’t think you want to use 2008 as a guide. It was a disaster.
Thanks.
And yet she beat Doug Collins in a primary. I think they were able to successfully confuse enough GA Republicans into believing that they had to “get behind” one candidate in the primary or they would somehow not make the runoff.
I realize that makes no sense.
? What are your numbers? Georgia has millions of voters.
House race, duh.
Despite all of this, we can’t even beat her. How fucked up is that?
PS. On paper, Trump is still the GOAT video game villain politician. Maybe video game villain is actually the optimal candidate for GOP?
This was a House race.
These people are soft headed af. This is what happens when you successfully cull all the critical thinking from your supporters.
I assume every unstucker with a twitter has been liking the shit out of that tweet.
I want to believe. But I bet this is just trolling to try to scare the eRepubs. The MAGA pundits will probably all magically snap in line a few weeks before the election.
I think there really is a massive block of people whose stupidity is beyond the grasp of most posters on this forum, who are loyal to Trump and simply DGAF about the GOP. Like sure, they will vote for all the Republicans while also voting for Trump, but they’re not turning out for a special election.
Separately, I talked to a swamp creature / media consultant type today and there will be a minimum of $800 million spent on the GA special elections, which is like $160 per voter, pure insanity.
I was thinking that given how much these types of elections must pump into the local economy, it’s a wonder that more states don’t have them specifically for this reason.
Good chance we lose, but as of now she has NEVER won anything.
She was handed her seat and then she got second most votes in November.
Let’s wait until she gets the most votes in an election before saying “we can’t even beat her”
