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On January 06 2021 13:32 IyMoon wrote:Show nested quote +On January 06 2021 13:26 StalkerTL wrote:On January 06 2021 13:23 IyMoon wrote: Where are the outstanding votes that Ossoff needs? I know they are out there, but does someone have a link to where they expect them to make it up? He's down by like 20k and I believe there's ~30k+ left in DeKalb. He should manage to get the lead eventually. Warnock's race is dead and buried, he's won this. Ossoff has enough friendly batches remaining that he wins unless someone didn't tabulate votes correctly. It looks like the Ossoff/Perdue race is less Arizona and more Pennsylvania. CNN just had someone from Chattam saying only 3k left to count, and will be counted tomorrow. I wonder where the difference is My guy do you trust CNN or the TL Decision Desk with FlaShFTW? cmon. You're on Teamliquid, not CNN forums.
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Ossoff is now down by 400 votes and the only remaining votes left to be counted are in heavy blue city counties. Can we rest easy now Iymoon?
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On January 06 2021 13:36 IyMoon wrote: So if dems pull off both, what does this say for Trump?
Does he lose a lot of pull? He was in GA trying to get this win, and hes getting handed another L
I think its clear that there's several things based on the last 4 years: - A lot of people in rural areas turn out like mad for Trump and Trump alone. They did so in 2016 and 2020, they didn't really do so in 2018. They are incredibly soft in rural areas in this election, despite Trump trying to juice up the vote. - This fucked up a lot of polling in 2016 and 2020 because the same people are non-responders. The only place where this wasn't wrong was in Iowa where Ann Selzer seems to be a respected enough pollster than they actually respond to her. - Since Biden has shown that Georgia isn't actually that red but disenfranchised to hell and back, there's been a surge of turnout in urban hubs for Ossoff and Warnock.
It seems more and more that Trump is basically Jesus Christ to a lot of rural voters. He's less so an actual person but a set of ideas and a weapon to beat down on the left. If he isn't in a position of power to own the Republicans or Democrats, they don't seem to interested in what he wants.
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i find it a bit odd than Decision Desk has it at 99% counted with the difference being at 1k votes while NYT has it at 95% counted with 400 votes difference.
It looks like Ossoff win either way but if the 99% counted from DDHQ is correct it would stay within recount margin.
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On January 06 2021 13:43 Toadesstern wrote: i find it a bit odd than Decision Desk has it at 99% counted with the difference being at 1k votes while NYT has it at 95% countet with 400 votes difference.
It looks like Ossoff win either way but if the 99% counted from DDHQ is correct it would stay within recount margin.
Ossoff seems to be able to get a decent enough lead that a recount isn't going to do much. Recounting is a formality but doesn't really change results unless they're incredibly close like Florida 2000.
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On January 06 2021 13:45 StalkerTL wrote:Show nested quote +On January 06 2021 13:43 Toadesstern wrote: i find it a bit odd than Decision Desk has it at 99% counted with the difference being at 1k votes while NYT has it at 95% countet with 400 votes difference.
It looks like Ossoff win either way but if the 99% counted from DDHQ is correct it would stay within recount margin. Ossoff seems to be able to get a decent enough lead that a recount isn't going to do much. Recounting is a formality but doesn't really change results unless they're incredibly close like Florida 2000. true, but being outside of recount margin would shut people up. If you guys have Ossoff vs Perdue within recount margin this whole thing is going to continue with shitty arguments that noone wants to hear about anymore.
What I'm saying is "let us be done with it" more than anything else
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On January 06 2021 13:47 Toadesstern wrote:Show nested quote +On January 06 2021 13:45 StalkerTL wrote:On January 06 2021 13:43 Toadesstern wrote: i find it a bit odd than Decision Desk has it at 99% counted with the difference being at 1k votes while NYT has it at 95% countet with 400 votes difference.
It looks like Ossoff win either way but if the 99% counted from DDHQ is correct it would stay within recount margin. Ossoff seems to be able to get a decent enough lead that a recount isn't going to do much. Recounting is a formality but doesn't really change results unless they're incredibly close like Florida 2000. true, but being outside of recount margin would shut people up. If you guys have Ossoff vs Perdue within recount margin this whole thing is going to continue with shitty arguments that noone wants to hear about anymore. What I'm saying is "let us be done with it" more than anything else
Let's be honest, if the result is anything but Perdue winning you're going to have Republicans in office spending the next few months wondering where Democrats are pulling these votes from.
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I do want to give credit to Georgia for doing what appears to be a really solid job of counting votes in a timely fashion. Done a hell of a lot better than certain states on election day back in November.
The Ossoff flip is only a matter of time at this point since almost all remaining votes are straight D votes.
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Georgia also did a pretty decent job back in November I think-the endless recounts just made it seem drawn out.
They're no New York, that's for sure.
On January 06 2021 13:47 Toadesstern wrote:Show nested quote +On January 06 2021 13:45 StalkerTL wrote:On January 06 2021 13:43 Toadesstern wrote: i find it a bit odd than Decision Desk has it at 99% counted with the difference being at 1k votes while NYT has it at 95% countet with 400 votes difference.
It looks like Ossoff win either way but if the 99% counted from DDHQ is correct it would stay within recount margin. Ossoff seems to be able to get a decent enough lead that a recount isn't going to do much. Recounting is a formality but doesn't really change results unless they're incredibly close like Florida 2000. true, but being outside of recount margin would shut people up. If you guys have Ossoff vs Perdue within recount margin this whole thing is going to continue with shitty arguments that noone wants to hear about anymore. What I'm saying is "let us be done with it" more than anything else
If November 2020 taught us anything it's that the margin is irrelevant to the people in the GOP currently making the most noise. They insist they won both Wisconsin and Michigan for pete's sake.
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What do people think, would this be happening if Mitch allowed 2k checks?
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On January 06 2021 14:00 LegalLord wrote: I do want to give credit to Georgia for doing what appears to be a really solid job of counting votes in a timely fashion. Done a hell of a lot better than certain states on election day back in November.
The Ossoff flip is only a matter of time at this point since almost all remaining votes are straight D votes. Look, we tried, but we had a massive amount of mail in votes the the Republican state congress wouldn't change the laws - all of them couldn't be counted until election day. -.-
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On January 06 2021 14:05 Mohdoo wrote: What do people think, would this be happening if Mitch allowed 2k checks?
With the amount of early voting involved? I'm not sure how much it could have affected. Maybe if waaaaay back in November he'd put something through. But there is a lot of blame to go around the GOP deck on this one.
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On January 06 2021 14:05 Mohdoo wrote: What do people think, would this be happening if Mitch allowed 2k checks? I don't think the free money checks flipped anywhere near as many votes as the overall waffling on stimulus and the tasteless voter fraud accusations. So yes, I'd expect things to be the same.
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Fuck tonight was good. I'm so glad for this result
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I had heard rumors that a lot of Trump supporters were talking about not voting and purposely sabotaging the Republican party in these special elections, as payback for the establishment not entirely supporting Trump's temper tantrums about election fraud and trying to stay as president. Thoughts? It seems that both of these special elections are really close.
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On January 06 2021 13:09 Zambrah wrote: The question for Republicans is do they lean into MAGA and hope that Trumpless MAGA keeps MAGA voters and base Republicans, or go generic Republican and hope to pick candidates that may appeal to Latino voters more heavily imo.
They have a litany of gross candidates like Ted Cruz to field though, I actually don't find them lacking in people to throw up for presidential elections compared to Democrats.
I don't know if Cruz is likable enough, but I'm actually really worried about someone like Tucker Carlson. I don't know if Carlson wants to run, but he's backed by Fox, has done a great job of appealing to both Trump supporters and establishment conservatives, and he's actually a really good debater irl.
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On January 06 2021 15:07 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: I had heard rumors that a lot of Trump supporters were talking about not voting and purposely sabotaging the Republican party in these special elections, as payback for the establishment not entirely supporting Trump's temper tantrums about election fraud and trying to stay as president. Thoughts? It seems that both of these special elections are really close. I doubt it had much impact. It’s the kind of amusing ironic clickbait story that leftists make up about rightists to laugh at them.
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As far as nice-sounding narratives go, these Georgia races produced some good ones. Abrams, who lost her governor's race, devoted her efforts to grassroots activism and GOTV in her home state and flipped it blue. Ossoff, who lost his House race three years ago, is poised to win a six-year Senate seat and be the first millennial senator and the youngest Democratic senator since Biden. Warnock is the first black senator from Georgia and is a preacher at MLK Jr.'s church.
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Ossoff officially ahead by 3.5k. GG it’s over
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Looks like it's more likely than not that Republicans will hold on to the Georgia public service commissioner position though, lol.
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