It's the final day for early voting in the hotly contested special election in Georgia's 6th congressional district. Democrat Jon Ossoff has been laser focused on early voting for good reason, writes the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Given the emphasis that Democrat Jon Ossoff has placed on ballots cast before next Tuesday, we may look back and say his race was won or lost today.
Republicans tend to dominate Election Day voting, which means Karen Handel will spend the weekend ramping up her GOTV effort. Hence the Saturday rally with former Gov. Sonny Perdue and former congressman Tom Price, President Donald Trump’s secretaries of agriculture and health and human services, respectively.
A Republican super PAC with ties to House Speaker Paul Ryan will flood conservative-leaning households in the Sixth District with 100,000 pieces of mail targeting Ossoff.
For some odd reason those mailers won't be touting the GOP's big healthcare repeal legislation—perhaps because more than 60 percent of voters in GA-06 despise it. Another 80 percent tagged the issue of health care as "extremely important" in a recent survey. But that's not where the GOP's emphasis will be. …
Click here for early voting locations and times.
There you have it—essentially, forget about losing your health care, Rosie O’Donnell, Nancy Pelosi and "Hanoi Jane" (!) are the real villains here.
Meanwhile, Republicans are seriously trying to downplay expectations for the outcome of next week's contest. That way, if they do manage to lose what should have been an entirely safe seat, they get to make it seem as though they were the underdogs, which they aren’t.
But if GA-06 does defect and miraculously elects a Democrat, this will indeed be true:
“If we’re losing upper middle class, suburban seats in the South to a 30-year-old progressive liberal, we would be foolish not to be deeply concerned about the possibility that would exist for a tidal wave election for Democrats in 2018,” said Chip Lake, a Georgia-based Republican strategist and former Capitol Hill chief of staff.