He’s running against Sonny Perdue.
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Yeah, but getting any of her ideas into policy through a Congress that’s beholden to interests other than their constituents is an impossible dream.
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I really pulled for him when he ran for Congress last time and I’m glad to see he’s not going away. To me, this is yet another sign top tier candidates believe Democrats can and will capture the Senate. At this point, doing so is almost as important as taking back the presidency.
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I see what you did there.
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I think he will suffer the same fate as Grimes in Kentucky. Sure, he appeals to Democrats. I like him. You like him. It’s what the voters in Georgia like that counts. A Democrat more like Doug Jones from Alabama would have a better chance.
And I’m recalling interviews with her through the years as she became more politically involved, then when she was a senator. She has good ideas on how to rebuild the middle class and take power away from the 1%. Is her expertise mostly economics? Yes. But it seems money and will are the key to change in politics. I believe she can get the public on board with that.
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Just a little while ago, Bret Stephens was poo-pooing Ossoff’s chances in GA. Apparently GA is too red for any Dem to win according to him, nevermind that GA rigs and cheats all their elections to make sure no Dem can easily win in that state…which of course he never bothers to mention.
How does this guy still have a job as a commentator on MSNBC? After his embarrassingly stupid rage tweeting last week at a professor, Stephens managed to draw more attention to his critic then he would have gotten, and then tried to get him fired for daring to challenge him at the NYT. Stephens is nothing more than a mouthpiece for dead ideas and an ideological bent on all things Republicon. Thin-skinned Stephens needs to hand it up and MSNBC needs to let him go before they discover he’s another Mark Halperin in sheep’s clothing. The fact that MSNBC still gives him a platform to provide his usual demagoguery with some kind of bothsiderism thrown in to faux-balance their reporting, is really annoying.
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I think the key to start winning in Georgia is for the Democrats to win the Secretary of State office in Georgia.
Once we can oversee fair elections, we stand a chance.
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The key to winning elections in GA is getting white voter support above the 30% level. No amount of cheating will stop the Dems if whites vote at a 33% rate for Dems. Right now, it’s 25%-27%. Too low.
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Couldn’t the article have taken the time to point out that the “safe” Republican district Ossoff did not win was won by a Democrat in 2018. He may be a rising star, but someoene else did what he could not do.
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Thank you for proving my point on Ossoff.
This is what people in town halls and other forums say to her: an intransigent R senate will do nothing to further what she’s laid out her plans. But she does not believe, nor so do most of us listening to her plans, that she should drop any of them. Moscow Mitch wants to act only on legislation 45 approves of, and certainly none coming from Dems. We can’t capitulate to his lethargy and fundamental lack of concern for actually legislating. As to Doug Jones there’s no guarantee he’s not going to lose this year. What he did was really a spectacular one off, and if Sessions decides to run. . . that’s the end.
I’m more worried about her getting Democrats on board. Many of them are bought and paid for. It’s something we have to face regardless of what we want to believe.
Agree. But by the same token, a candidate like Ossoff would not have pulled a “one off” in Alabama.
Did you read this post before you posted your comment?
Ossoff is extremely qualified and likable, but I really doubt he could ever win a state wide contest in Georgia.
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I can see what’s lacking with Ossoff right now. That fire in the belly that drives people doesn’t seem, yet, to be driving him. He saying the right thing, and all of that but lacks passion.
I admire what Warren is saying even if it seems like pipe dreams and even if Dems are not going to get fully on board though her movement in polls is impressive. She’s approaching politics differently, but like anyone else here I’ll vote for whichever Dem is nominated and hope she’d be a major figure in any Dem’s administration.
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Curious comment. Like them or not, Sanders and Warren are by far the most specific candidates running. If anything, that’s their weak spot because it ties them to sometimes-unpopular positions that are not common.
Meanwhile the ones with the most common, vague, and unrealistic political speak are Biden, Harris, and maybe Booker, who are #1, #4, and #6 respectively so far, so Sanders and Warren at 2 and 3 I don’t think you can really say anything about whether Dem voters are tired of it or not.
When you promise medicare for all, debt relief for all and free college for all and can’t find a realistic way to pay for or implement it in a manner that won’t blow up the budget, create chaos in key economic sectors or blow up the economy, that’s pie in the sky stuff and not serious policy. It’s goal oriented and marketed well but lacks a realistic path to get there. You know what prescription drug plan Nancy Pelosi is going with right now? The one that most closely resembles the one proposed by Kamala Harris. There’s a big difference between the center left and far left on policy development and implementation.
We sure as shit need someone to do something about healthcare because destroying ACA by a thousand cuts is working.
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Dying to see the details.
Regardless, it’s dead in the Senate.
Unless it’s so watered down, that the drug companies want the Senate to pass it.
But it will pass easily under a Dem POTUS.
Sonny’s cousin David.