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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDems, GOP take different approaches on Georgia Senate blitz
Georgia Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Jon Ossoff rallies supporters for a run-off against Republican candidate Sen. David Perdue, as they meet in Grant Park, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)
By BILL BARROW and BEN NADLER
ATLANTA (AP) Jon Ossoff took the stage in Columbus and looked out over a parking lot filled with cars, with supporters blaring their horns in approval as he declared that change has come to Georgia.
Hours earlier, Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler stepped to a microphone in suburban Atlanta and addressed hundreds of eager supporters packed into the Cobb County GOP headquarters. The freshman senator and her Florida colleague, Sen. Marco Rubio, stirred the crowd with their insistence that the change offered by Ossoff and his fellow Democratic Senate hopeful Raphael Warnock means radical elements would control Washington.
Those opening salvos of Georgias twin Senate runoff campaign -- Ossoff looking to unseat Republican Sen. David Perdue and Warnock facing off with Loeffler -- showcase starkly different approaches the two parties are taking to the unusual circumstances that make this newfound two-party battleground the epicenter of a national battle for control of the Senate.
Both sides are playing to core supporters, the most reliable voters among the 5 million who split their ballots roughly evenly between the two parties in the first round. But for Democrats, its seemingly a more piecemeal, voter-by-voter approach, while Republicans are pushing a broad branding message through mass media. Whichever strategy proves more effective on Jan. 5 will help determine the ambitions and reach of President-elect Joe Bidens tenure depending on which party ultimately controls the chamber.
FULL story: https://apnews.com/article/senate-elections-georgia-coronavirus-pandemic-campaigns-jon-ossoff-13be5a7acd7dd4c7b9095628c8f2b1a6
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Dems, GOP take different approaches on Georgia Senate blitz (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Nov 2020
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Guess Dem Progressives will be getting a lot of advertising publicity in Georgia
empedocles
Nov 2020
#1
"The freshman senator and her Florida colleague, Sen. Marco Rubio, stirred the crowd"
yellowcanine
Nov 2020
#2
empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. Guess Dem Progressives will be getting a lot of advertising publicity in Georgia
in coming weeks from the 'cons. Lot of campaign contributions available
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)2. "The freshman senator and her Florida colleague, Sen. Marco Rubio, stirred the crowd"
Marco Rubio? Seriously? Water chugging Marco? If that is all Kelly has I think Dems win that seat anyway.