If it seems like it got real quiet there for a while, it is because...well...it got real quiet for a while. In the past half hour, exactly TWO precincts have been tallied. Both were in Cobb County, which closes the books on the most GOP-friendly county in the district. Their final contributions dropped Jon Ossoff’s totals slightly, as he went from 50.4% overall down to 50.3%.
To reset the evening, the early vote, as expected, went strongly for Ossoff (62%). But, as many folks around here cautioned, the day-of vote was more heavily Republican, in part because the multi-candidate field gave GOP voters cause to wait till the last minute. So, as the evening has dragged on, Ossoff’s totals dipped to their present status.
The wild card is what remains: Fulton County. The part of the county in the 6th district split relatively evenly between Trump and Clinton in November. But Ossoff needs more than Clinton’s share from November to stay above 50 percent. Maddeningly, in nearly four hours of counting, less than one-quarter of the Fulton County precincts have been tallied. So...we wait.