Handel wins 6th district

[Boss 302]

Handel: 134,595
Ossoff: 124,893

Price: 201,088
Stooksbury: 124,917

Ossoff got almost exactly what the dem got against Price. Handel got about 65K fewer votes.




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It would appear then a lot of voters in the 6th stayed home this election.

 

[cptlo]

It would appear then a lot of voters in the 6th stayed home this election.

A lot of Republican voters and that may be bad for 2018.

 

[Boss 302]

A lot of Republican voters and that may be bad for 2018.

It will most likely depend upon who the candidates are. Now if Handel does a great job in Congress between now and then, she may have nothing to worry about.

 

[lotstodo]

I respectfully disagree. Ossoff's support came from the "resistance", newly registered snowflakes funded by much out-of state money. I didn't check, but I'd strongly suspect that Karen Handel's vote total in a "off season" runoff wasn't all that much less than Tom Price garnered last fall in his re-election. I've yet to meet a Trump supporter who regrets casting a vote for him.

Well it was an "off season" election in name only. Obviously this was a highly publicized contest that was known to be close. The numbers are interesting:

2014, the last real "off season", Price got 139,000 of 210,000 total votes.
2016, Price got 201,000 of 326,000
2017, Handel got 134,000 of 239,000 votes.

Price's numbers dropped steadily from 72% of the vote in 2006 to 62% last year. Handel got 52%. Whether this was from a somewhat effective Democratic campaign really doesn't make much difference. The point is that it almost worked. Handel couldn't garner the same numbers as Price did in 2014 in spite of the hoopla over this election. That doesn't seem to bode well for the Republicans.

 

[Glassdogs]

Well it was an "off season" election in name only. Obviously this was a highly publicized contest that was known to be close. The numbers are interesting:

2014, the last real "off season", Price got 139,000 of 210,000 total votes.
2016, Price got 201,000 of 326,000
2017, Handel got 134,000 of 239,000 votes.

Price's numbers dropped steadily from 72% of the vote in 2006 to 62% last year. Handel got 52%. Whether this was from a somewhat effective Democratic campaign really doesn't make much difference. The point is that it almost worked. Handel couldn't garner the same numbers as Price did in 2014 in spite of the hoopla over this election. That doesn't seem to bode well for the Republicans.

Yeah, maybe. It also could have a LOT to do with the changing ethnicity of the voters in the 6th.

 

[lotstodo]

Yeah, maybe. It also could have a LOT to do with the changing ethnicity of the voters in the 6th.

It's 72% white with a $73000 median household income.