>The Democratic victory, in a district that voted for President Donald Trump by about 12 percentage points last year, comes ahead of next year’s critical midterms, when Georgians will vote in closely watched races for Senate and governor.
While only winning by less than 200 votes, it is a 15 pt overperformance vs 2024. This is a gerrymandered district of a blue county (Clarke) and a red but affluent neighboring county (Oconee). Oconee should be a good bellwether for how moderate areas of Georgia could perform next year. Note that the other Georgia special election today, even though it goes to runoff, was still 75% voting for Republicans and nowhere close to competitive.
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To be fair Dutch Guest IV just sounds like one of those randomly generated Reddit names. The Dem didn’t win because he was running against a Republican, people thought he was running against a Redditor.
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>The Democratic victory, in a district that voted for President Donald Trump by about 12 percentage points last year, comes ahead of next year’s critical midterms, when Georgians will vote in closely watched races for Senate and governor.
While only winning by less than 200 votes, it is a 15 pt overperformance vs 2024. This is a gerrymandered district of a blue county (Clarke) and a red but affluent neighboring county (Oconee). Oconee should be a good bellwether for how moderate areas of Georgia could perform next year. Note that the other Georgia special election today, even though it goes to runoff, was still 75% voting for Republicans and nowhere close to competitive.
To be fair Dutch Guest IV just sounds like one of those randomly generated Reddit names. The Dem didn’t win because he was running against a Republican, people thought he was running against a Redditor.