That's completed precincts, more of the vote % than that is in (probably 40%).
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Georgia special election heads to runoff as Ossoff earns 48% of vote
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That's completed precincts, more of the vote % than that is in (probably 40%).
StopMakingSense
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Yeah, CNN tries to approximate total votes in the percentage, while NYT just uses ED precincts as percentage.
And CNN is a bit slower.
Joe Shlabotnik
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It's a weird-ass primary for a weird-ass special election for a single House seat in a heavily Republican district that will be up for election again in a little over a year.
Close the thread and go to bed or something if you're this traumatized over something that might lead to--in a best-case scenario--some deeply aggressive tea-leaf reading.
Just as an FWIW, when you're posting results, make it clear if its the percentage of the districts that are in or the vote that is in. Those are different numbers and the reason why people are posting what seem like conflicting results. Only make vote% to vote% and district% to district% comparisons.
TheCochese
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Y'all just don't learn. Stop hanging on to every single percentage update.
Come back in an hour or so. Check in, don't F5 this shit.
Come back in an hour or so. Check in, don't F5 this shit.
Percent is almost always precinct. It is not possible to know percent of votes counted until the votes have all been reported.
The percentage of vote that is in is objectively inaccurate unless you know exactly how many votes have been cast, and you don't know that until all precincts have reported.
Then that bodes well for him in the run off in a few weeks. Basically he just has to convince a few thousand people to switch to him, but the Republican has to convince 50 - 60 thousand people to switch to her.
People who won't get out of the way costing Dems seats in FPTP elections in the US?
It's an annual tradition at this point.
StopMakingSense
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Eh the nature of these special elections / primaries, that's just a part of the process. For all we know they might have effectively dropped out after Ossoff got the attention, but cant remove themselves from the ballot.
Herr Schwarz
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That's a bit of a loss, he's down to his last points. Hopefully it's just been a lot of republican heavy places being counted or what have you and there's some dem support left in the barrell
This isn't a FPTP election.
Seems like that's Handel's stronghold, so should be the biggest drop of the night.
I'm like 100% sure at this point the spoilers will ruin it
Vestal
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He is killing it in DeKalb and Fulton, but running at around 47.5% in Cobb.
Officerrob
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Terrified about not being able to flip every +20 R district?
Dems keep up this momentum they might actually flip some of the races they lost by 10% or less last time.
That is, if they actually capitalize on this.
You realize this is not the end of this process right?
legacyzero
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Yep LOL
skullmuffins
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Even if he doesn't hit 50%+1 tonight, it isn't over. We'll get another chance in the June runoff. Him winning this outright tonight was always a longshot.
Seriously, what the fuck. This being a close race in the slightest is going to scare the shit out of every Republican not in a totally red stronghold.
Joe Shlabotnik
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Does anyone pay attention to anything
I should clarify,
I'm terrified of how I deal with 2018 emotionally.
Officerrob
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Trump is President, so...
It's a feeder for one!
StopMakingSense
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Thats adorable.
Herr Schwarz
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He's still got a chance!
No, and I truly question how people view these things. You know people on twitter are going to be talking all sorts of shit without even understand the district.
Also. So what he doesn't win outright? You don't pack your bags and claim defeat. You have another shot in June. More money will be poured in, more time to craft a message etc.
I know the temptation of wanted a win outright, but this was always going to be a longshot.
This isn't even a midterm.
yeah let's not let the Republican rhetoric win. They want people thinking these were big wins for them. They want Democrats demoralized. Trump can have his shallow words, because what is happening is that we're getting close to flipping deep red seats. The potential progress in 2018 is amazing. Focus on that.
Officerrob
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That just about does it
Mr_Antimatter
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Getting even close in a GOP stronghold state woudl be a big deal. There is a lot of time to adjust campaign strategy between now and 2018's general election.
thestopsign
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Just to clarify, if Ossoff gets 50%+1 he wins the seat, but if he doesn't it goes to a runoff in June?
^ yes
Ah, good point. Still, who are these voters? Wonder if there are any Republicans in there doing this out of spite. (if you don't care which Repub makes it to the runoff, then a vote for a Dem other than Ossoff is still a vote for a runoff).
True, but I'd be worried about a unified Republican front in the runoff. Would be much nicer to just win this one outright.
Ah, good point. Still, who are these voters? Wonder if there are any Republicans in there doing this out of spite. (if you don't care which Repub makes it to the runoff, then a vote for a Dem other than Ossoff is still a vote for a runoff).
True, but I'd be worried about a unified Republican front in the runoff. Would be much nicer to just win this one outright.
I feel you on that. 2018 is going to have so much attention. Everyone is going to be trying to put in work. GOP will be playing defense while Dems try to break through.
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