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Ossoff is at 55% with half the vote in/Georgia special election

With electronic, unverifiable voting, don't hold your breath. This is the same election committee that decided that it wasn't a big deal when they were hacked last time.
 
NoahFence said:
Can he win a runoff?
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It'd be very close, but yes, depending on more stupid crap coming from Trump. His robocall was full of the same wolf crying as his whole election and that truly is wearing thin on people. Of course it should have worn thin after the GOP Primary so who knows?

Ossoff is actually very intelligent, a convincing politician, someone to watch.
 
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It's just a hair over 50% now. It's gonna be REALLY close to avoid a runoff.
 
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Currently at 48.6%

According to Nate Cohn, "There's around 15k GOP-leaning vote left. I'd guess that brings Ossoff down to around 47.7 when it's all through."
 
Apparently there was a bad data card that stopped counting for a while. Counting has resumed, and it's looking like a runoff. Crap.

I'm NOT looking forward to this dominating the local media cycle for the next couple of months.
 
Cleon said:
Apparently there was a bad data card that stopped counting for a while. Counting has resumed, and it's looking like a runoff. Crap.

I'm NOT looking forward to this dominating the local media cycle for the next couple of months.
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By the time they have the runoff, it'll almost be time for the 2018 election.
 
...okay: I've finally gotten my head around the electoral college. Now you 'Mercan's need to be explaining this further for the rest of us. You need to get over 50% to avoid a "run off?" Why is that? Are all House Seats elected this way?
 
banquetbear said:
...okay: I've finally gotten my head around the electoral college. Now you 'Mercan's need to be explaining this further for the rest of us. You need to get over 50% to avoid a "run off?" Why is that? Are all House Seats elected this way?
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No, just this one. And it has nothing to do with the EC, just Georgia's special election rules.

The rest of the time, the parties would have nominated the candidates so there would only be one Democrat and one Republican candidate. In some cases like this one a governor would just appoint the replacement.
 
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Skeptic Ginger said:
No, just this one. And it has nothing to do with the EC, just Georgia's special election rules.

The rest of the time, the parties would have nominated the candidates so there would only be one Democrat and one Republican candidate. In some cases like this one a governor would just appoint the replacement.
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...I know this had nothing to do with the electoral college: what I meant is I've finally gotten my head around the ridiculous electoral college. :) Now we have a "special election" which really isn't a "special election", but a "pre-election?"

So can we back up a bit?

These rules are Georgia specific, and only for a special election? Why are only two possible candidates? What stops an independent candidate running? Why 50%? And how do you guys just know this stuff?
 
banquetbear said:
...okay: I've finally gotten my head around the electoral college. Now you 'Mercan's need to be explaining this further for the rest of us. You need to get over 50% to avoid a "run off?" Why is that? Are all House Seats elected this way?
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It's usually called a "jungle primary" and some states have it as a rule for the normal elections as well. For instance, the California Senate seat that was up for election last November, was contested between two Democrats because they came ahead out of the jungle primary.
 
... it also means the Republicans have two more months to find make up dirt about Ossoff.
 
banquetbear said:
...I know this had nothing to do with the electoral college: what I meant is I've finally gotten my head around the ridiculous electoral college. :) Now we have a "special election" which really isn't a "special election", but a "pre-election?"

So can we back up a bit?

These rules are Georgia specific, and only for a special election? Why are only two possible candidates? What stops an independent candidate running? Why 50%? And how do you guys just know this stuff?
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Yes, Georgia specific.

If this were the regular year election (All House members up for election every 2 years), Independents could run. The Ds and Rs would put up their candidates chosen in primary elections.

Special elections are held when a member of Congress (Senate or House) leaves office before the term is up. Then it is up to state rules how that seat is filled. In this case, Georgia has an election where if anyone gets >50%, they win the seat. If no one does (as happened tonight), then there is a runoff of the top two.
 
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