General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: The GA-6 result discredits the "centrists can win-the left can't" narrative. [View all]still_one
(98,883 posts)purity bullshit, and Ossoff was damn progressive on most issues, and would be considered a "died in the wool liberal", in that district.
The Green party has Never won a Congressional Seat, so you'll excuse me if I don't follow their suicidal ideology on how to lose elections.
There were 5 Democrats running in that race, including Ossoff.
There were 11 republicans running in that race, including Handle
and 2 independents.
Because of that, Ossoff had a real chance to win the election outright, but not the runoff. That was always a fact, inspite of the media and blogger bullshit. If Ossoff didn't win the election outright, the odds were very against that he would win the runoff, because all those republicans would line up behind Handle.
Most of those republicans other than Handel in that election had about 10% of the total vote.
All of the Democrats and independents, except Ossoff had less than 1% of that vote, and we came pretty close to winning it outright with Jon Ossoff. Unfortunately, there was a runoff, and that is why we lost, NOT because we ran Jon Ossoff.