The GA-6 result discredits the "centrists can win-the left can't" narrative.

[Ken Burch]

115. None of the anti-Sanders Dems beat the 'thug candidates, either.

But the pro-Sanders Dems came as close to winning as the anti-Sanders Dems-the pro-Sanders Dem likely WOULD have won in the Kansas race had the national party not refused to send him any help even when the polls proved he was closing the gap dramatically.

In all cases, we made dramatic improvement in vote share, and that was pretty much all we could realistically expect to achieve.

Nobody should ever have been using these contests to prove that only non-progressive Dems could win. That should never have been part of the agenda at all-and it was a major part of the agenda in the Ossoff campaign, with any number of people arguing, elsewhere AND here, that an Ossoff victory would have proved that we should only nominate centrists.

If nothing else, a progressive nominee in the Georgia 6th would have known enough to make sure to actually live in the district. It was always a certainty the Handel campaign would make an issue out of that and that it would make a huge difference.