UPDATED*: 18-August-2017
Democratic hopeful Jon Ossoff
came close in his initial bid to win the reliably Republican Georgia 6th congressional district. He finished first in the April election with a large plurality over a fractured Republican field but
failed to secure a majority. Ossoff
will face faced and narrowly lost
* to second place finisher Republican Karen Handel in a June 20 runoff. Promoted as a proxy for Democratic resistance to the Trump administration, the
mixed results gave both parties plenty of "spin" space. Whether it was a
victory,
loss,
moral victory, repudiation of
President Donald Trump,
bellwether for the 2018 midterms,
GOP wakeup call, or some
mix of all the above can and
will be debated.
In the bigger scheme of things, it's just one district that
should and probably will stayed
* Republican. By itself GA-06 is not all that important. What is important - very important - is what happens in the 2018 midterms.
Can Democrats can wrest majority control of the House of Representative from the GOP, restore divided government, and provide real oversight of the Trump administration?
On that score, the Dividist can show Democrats a silver lining around the dark cloud of 2016 and offer a ray of hope for 2018. But to explain it, we must first digress through a bit of history.
