So sad (related commentary below )
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GOP “NARROWLY” HANGS ON TO HO– USE SEAT IN GEORGIA ELECTION
52% TO 48%… THAT’S “NARROWLY?!
For a Democrat, that would be a “landslide”!!
The self-discrediting Kansas City Star ran an AP story on Wednesday running more than 27 column inches, reporting on the Karen Handel-Jon Ossoff election’s outcome.
The thrust of the story was to primarily “assure” their readers that this “expected” loss in the Georgia congressional race is really a warning to Republicans, and an “encouragement” to Democrats, that “President Trump’s tenuous standing will dominate the the looming campaign cycle”.
I’m not sure if the Star’s Democrat readers were all that ressured, but I definitely have a feeling the Star’s staff and editors were not at all!
In that lengthy AP story, run on page 12A (where would you guess pre-election stories appeared in the Star?), there was no mention of Republican Karen Handel’s winning margin (52 to 48%).
That was no problem for the KC Star’s editors, I’m sure. If the AP didn’t report the margin, that would have been OK. If they did, to suspect the editors removed it from the story they ran wouldn’t be all that much of a stretch.
DLH
And from Gary Bauer writing at Campaign for Working Families: (excerpt)
According to all the media hype, yesterday’s special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District was supposed to herald the end of the Trump presidency and beginning of the left’s resurgence. Consider these headlines:
“Georgia Special Election A Referendum On Trump” — Chicago Tribune
“Georgia Special Election Seen As Last, Best Chance To Stop Trumpcare” — Huffington Post
In spite of the hype and the left’s best efforts, Karen Handel won comfortably last night 52%-to-48%. Just how sad was the left and its big media allies? The facial expressions of these CNN analysts says it all!
Here are some observations:
Democrats and their media allies are attempting to shrug off this loss as no big deal. Don’t believe the spin. The left went all out to win this seat and it failed. Big league.
Liberals all over the country opened their wallets and poured tens of millions of dollars into Democrat Jon Ossoff’s campaign, making it the most expensive House election in history. While estimates vary, the left spent at least $30 million attempting to make the race a referendum on President Trump.
A remarkably small amount of Ossoff’s $30 million came from Georgia. In fact, he received nearly four times more donations from the San Francisco Bay area than he did from Georgia.
Kellyanne Conway tweeted this masterpiece: “I’m laughing my Ossoff.” She also thanked the media for making it so clear that the election was a referendum on President Trump.
By one measurement, the left is now 0 and 5 in contested special elections. Some races have been close, but close only matters in horseshoes.
Pollsters are evidently still relying on the same bad models they used in 2016. The polling in the Sixth District was terrible. Most polls showed Ossoff leading, occasionally by as much as seven points. Even as late as yesterday, pollsters were saying it was “too close to call” and that all the passion was with the left.
Kudos to Speaker Paul Ryan and other GOP leaders who invested heavily in the race, including President Trump and Vice President Pence. The conventional wisdom said that Trump was a liability here.
But the president repeatedly expressed his support for Handel. He recorded phone calls for her, and both President Trump and Vice President Pence raised money and campaigned for her. When Handel gave her victory speech last night, she thanked the president and crowd chanted, “Trump! Trump! Trump!”
Karen Handel’s victory was a victory on many fronts. While Jon Ossoff was adamantly pro-abortion, Handel fought to defund Planned Parenthood.
Speaking of Planned Parenthood
The group that is distraught because they might be on the short end of the stick for tax money largess thanks to Trump . . . well they pursued the Georgia race as a referendum on Trump and abortion and they lost, biggly. Indeed they were the second largest contributor to Democrat Ossoff, behind only the Democrat Congressional Committee.
Planned Parenthood spent $734,000 in failed Georgia race
Money is fungible. The dodge that the money is from sources other than their operations side is weak as they solicit for both from the same people. But with less tax money, to keep their abortion and baby parts business going, they spent that kind of money anyway, indicating that the tax money they do get is to a flush organization, otherwise they would be soliciting and using that money for their “service business”. The tax spigot needs to be shut off because especially because of what they do but also because they are grifters. R Mall
