Dem win breaks Georgia GOP state Senate supermajority

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/5/1721447/-The-night-the-lights-went-on-in-Georgia-Democratic-win-breaks-GOP-state-Senate-supermajority
Carolyn Fiddler -- Dec 05, 2017

Democrats scored another big win on Tuesday, this time in a seat they’d already flipped from red to blue.

Clear as mud? I’ll explain.

Georgia’s 6th Senate District became open last fall when the Republican representing it resigned to run for governor. A broad field of candidates ran to replace him: three Democrats and five Republicans. One of those Democrats, Jaha Howard, lost to the incumbent Republican by just 4 points in 2016, and he appeared to be a top contender in the special election—until some disturbing information came to light in October. Specifically, Howard was found to have authored a long and disturbing series of anti-LGBT and misogynistic social media posts. He belatedly apologized for and deleted the posts, but these misogynistic and homophobic rantings are unacceptable for any elected official, especially a Democrat.

Thankfully, another strong candidate and progressive Democrat was already running in SD-06, which went for Hillary Clinton by a 55-40 margin. Jen Jordan is a first-time candidate, but she’s no stranger to fighting for progressive causes. ...............

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1. k & R nt

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2. All signs pointing to a bloodbath in 2018

for the traitor republican koch party!

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3. All signs pointed to a hillary win but the d...... censored ........ and trump won.

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4. That was polls

I'm talking real actual results as in this story.

And the ass kicking the republicans just took in Virginia, another good sign.

The blue wave is coming to cleanse American from the nazi stain of republicanism in 2018!!!

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5. Let's hope so

Don't assume anything, work to make it happen.

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6. GOTV always