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Ossoff has spent over $47 million since January for this Congressional seat, which is the most money spent on a House race ever. 93 percent of the donations came from CA, NY and MA. This is a pure desperation move by Democrats for a win, a seat that will last a year since this seat is up for election in 2018. It's sad I'm rooting for Handel, who is no peach. However, I don't like my district being bought by Californians and New Yorkers.
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Those blue districts are in Atlanta,south or west parts of metro Atlanta, which is populated primarily by blacks, hispanics and millennials. That is why it is strongly blue and John Lewis has represented them for three decades. Hindsight is always 20-20, but yes that was a surprising one and is Frank Underwood's district. If democrats put the effort into SC-5 instead of GA-5 than they may have taken it. However, taking the district that Romney took by over 23 percent, home of Newt Gingric...
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Yes, that's not lost on me at all. The suburban districts are distinctly more white than the ATL districts. The white % of the population will go from 70s to 30s as you move from one district to the next here...
I think there's an argument that if SC-5 had been made high profile, base turnout would have been higher and it wouldn't have been as close. But who knows. SC-5 has a much heavier partisan lean, so I think the decision was purely strategic (whether or not it was...
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