Is anyone else getting deluged with Ossof fundraising emails? Some are from others, requesting for him, 8 yesterday alone. I donated early on and since then, eventually began dragging them into a junk folder, 55 in the last 11 days.
As I was thinking about this, that maybe it’s a dirty trick by an opponent :dubious:, I was dragging the latest, and mail quit. Repeated multiple times afterwards, and with another Ossoff email, all quitting, but not with any others, so far. Hmm…
I’ll check it further with others email, and more inevitable Ossofs. The quitting may be just a coincidence or needs a system restart but still wondering if anyone else gets ISTM, a lot of these?
Not necessarily the content, but the email itself. I opened and deleted several others, tried dragging that one into the junk folder again and mail quit again. The email after it was from a Dem organization and may or may not have been for Ossof, but just clicking on it made mail quit. I solved it by simply selecting both and deleting.
I’m seeing a lot of yard signs for Ossoff; more than I saw for Hillary. I see about twice as many signs for him as I see for Gray and Handel put together.
That said, this is a red part of a red state. His chances aren’t good. I agree that his strategy should be to shoot for no-runoff, because if it does go to a run-off then the usual voters will wake up and he’ll lose in a landslide. I expect him to do so anyway, much to my sadness.
Interesting article here on how polls can be used. The TLDR version is that it was a poll matching the top-running Democrat against the six top-running Republicans, and Ossoff came out ahead. IOW if you don’t split the Democrat vote, but you do split the Republican vote, then we are still headed for a run off where the Republican vote won’t be split.
Early voting starts today. I used to live in Orloff’s district and the GOP thought to provide a single, one, only one, early voting location in predominately black DeKalb County.
In case there’s doubt as to the above, let’s note that the voting locations for North Fulton and Cobb counties are all located in the 6th district, but the 1 location allocated for DeKalb county is *5 miles south *of the southernmost border of the 6th district.
This part of GA is rapidly changing - a lot of white collar folks here, relatively well educated population, a diversifying population, all good things for a democratic candidate. Will this be enough? No clue… Lets hope for something good happening here!!
From your link, these aren’t voting machines as such, but rather the machines that are used to check in voters at the polls, and check off those that have already voted.
Which is pretty much Ossoff’s only chance at the election. If it gets down to just two candidates and the dem was even close, I predict the local conservatives will show in droves and make it a landslide in the runoff.
There were a LOT of people in person just outside polling locations (GA law says they have to be 100ft away from the entrance, and there’s a sign marking where that is, and these people were about 5 feet away from the sign) waving Ossoff signs, wearing Ossoff shirts and buttons, and chanting slogans. A lot of Dems are fired up.
I’m still going to predict that Ossoff makes the runoff and loses there, but I hope I’m wrong.
I’m not clear on how the runoff would be any harder than hitting 50% in the first election. Either way, he has to appeal to 50% of the total electorate. The total electorate will probably be smaller in the runoff, but that’ll affect both candidates, and I’m not sure that it’s a given that it’ll affect him more than the Republican.
