The next time you are thinking about praising Bernie Sanders....

[Texin]

179. by "campaigned for him"

do you mean Ossoff?

I'm going to just flat out say this, but I think in deep red districts like this one (where rTrump had/has no special appeal for the majority of their educated, affluent, younger block of constituents), perhaps Hill & Bill & the national Democratic 'leaders' need to stay the hell out of those districts. I've been around long enough to remember that most of the traction the rethugs gained throughout the years has been directly related to the anathema rethug voters feel about the Clintons and the 'lbrul' Democrats (and the more educated and affluent they've been the more adamant they've been about the Clintons). I've worked around the folks for a couple of decades or more, and I've seen it firsthand.

tRump didn't do well in that Georgia district because he's a fucking gasbag idiot and scares the hell out of any intelligent voter. They ended up holding their noses and voting the kompromat candidate from idiot drop-out skool because his last name wasn't Clinton. Period. Full stop. That doesn't mean they'd have been fall down eager to vote for Bernie though. Someone like Joe Biden might have been able to pull off a win in that district in November, and someone like Ossoff is more of an unknown quantity - until anyone named Clinton or closely associated with them is seen or heard campaigning for them. I hate to say it because I very willingly voted for both Clintons, but I'm a wide-eyed realist and I know that they are both deeply flawed (for different reasons) and they've BOTH been lightning rods for opposition and outright hatred for as long back as I can remember (and I'm from Texas and the same holds for this red state as much as any other in the south).