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Omaha Steve

(99,059 posts)
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 08:49 AM Nov 2020

Dems, 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 Georgia’s 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, it’s 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 Biden’s 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 OP
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
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 09:03 AM
Nov 2020

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"
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 09:07 AM
Nov 2020
Marco Rubio? Seriously? Water chugging Marco? If that is all Kelly has I think Dems win that seat anyway.

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