I am not surprised and am quite confident there were shenanagins. He nearly won a majority a month ago.
I'm a democrat, but I knew he would lose. The democrats get all excited - 'Oh we can win', but they forget the hard headed republican doesn't see anything, but being a republican. My sister is one. She wouldn't vote for anyone, but a republican, because 'I've been a republican all my life'. It's mind-boggling.
they didn't vote for Ossoff because he doesn't live within the district but voted for someone that is determined to not allow a living wage to be made.
If the people are really that dumb then they deserve this but I don't believe for one minute that she actually won. He was 7 points ahead in the polls. The polls only seem to be wrong if a Democrat is winning and this started with Kerry.
He only lived two miles outside of the district, and he said he grew up in the district. He lived outside the district to be with his girlfriend who was going to school. Guess that was good since he lost. I read that there was some kind of a hack that had to do with 170,000 voter records.
I'm a democrat, but I knew he would lose. The democrats get all excited - 'Oh we can win', but they forget the hard headed republican doesn't see anything, but being a republican. My sister is one. She wouldn't vote for anyone, but a republican, because 'I've been a republican all my life'. It's mind-boggling.
If you wrote an "R" on the side, one of my cast iron skillets could probably be elected to statewide office here in Texas.
The elections are rigged. Not just the gerrymandering, or the voter suppression,but in my mind's eye, I feel there are counties out there where the actual votes are changed or thrown out. I feel that the only way now in this country that a democrat can win is if the true vote is a democratic landslide because not all machines are rigged.
Jeanne when do you think the general public will become aware of this rigging? Why is it not out in the open yet?
There have been news stories about it, but it's hard to prove beyond a doubt. We are such a partisan country at this point, and the GOP has done such a good job of getting people to believe that both sides are lying equally, which is not true, that mainstream media need iron clad proof before they will report on something like that.
I've read several stories including some damning stories after the U.S. election of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. When machines have no paper trail then you can't prove what the original votes were. But even in states were they had a paper trail, Jill Stein was unable to get a valid recount. Republican election commissions simply stonewalled her. If they hadn't cheated, and she had the money to pay for the recount, and multitudes of volunteers willing to help, then why did the GOP fight it so vehemently ?
Then there's the problem that Democrats felt it was dishonoring the democratic process to accuse the other side of cheating. (Remember the debates when Trump said he wouldn't accept the results if he lost and Hilary said she would accept the results if she lost).
When will the rigged polls come out in public? My gut says that it will never come out exactly. At some point, a certain sector of the U.S. population will lose faith in the election process for red and swing states. It's hard to know how that will play out with the coinciding move to put more emphasis on local and state government, but it's unclear to me what will happen to the federal government at that point.
P.S. The topic title of this thread should be Karen Handel "wins" special election with "wins" in quotes.
What you are saying is that at some point people will give up on the idea of this country as a united whole, and just try to protect themselves in their own regions. It's like the ghost of the civil war has come back and finished what it started, tearing this country in two. Is there a reason this is happening? There is something in the collective conscience or maybe in not facing up to historical crimes that is causing this reckoning to happen. Whatever the reason, it's heartbreaking.
Natalie, I'm not sure that the country will break in two irrevocably. I just don't know. I saw two women leaders at the end of the twenties. I also saw at that time the U.S. taking a lead in sustainability. I saw the Republican Party shriveling. But I don't have a coherent picture of the whole yet. Some psychics see the country breaking apart but I only see a grass roots local movement to make up the federal shortfall in social and other domestic services. It's a good movement. Joyful and empowering, once it takes hold. Sometimes we try to complete the picture but we just can't. Just don't know yet. I think you are going to have a good life, one of empowerment. I think there will be many young people like you.