The Democratic Party studied the demographics. They looked at the margin by which Trump won the district. Then, in a fit of optimism, they spent millions of dollars chasing unicorns in rainy Georgia.
Lets put Karen Handel's win in prospective. Here we have a district, Georgia 6, that has not elected a member of the Democratic Party in 40 years. What it has elected to congress is disgraced former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, who was forced to resign from the House because of ethics violations. Then the voters in this district sent to the House of Representatives Tom Price who appears to be guilty of insider trading and violating House ethics rules. How bright is that! This district looks like a fact free zone to me. All of the evidence strongly suggests that the majority of the voters there are hopelessly Republican. The cure for which, barring another 1929, has yet to be found.
Supposedly some of the most effective advertisements against the Democratic Party's congressional candidate, Jon Ossoff, were the ads trying to tie him to Nancy Palosi. Interesting who the Republicans choose to villainize, isn't it? And what was Nancy Pelosi's great crime? She is widely considered to be one of the most effective Speakers of the House ever. She managed to get passed by the House Of Representatives a very impressive body of legislation such as Dodd Frank and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. What legislation did Speaker John Boehner usher through the House? Well, we had an almost monthly repeal of the Affordable Health Care Act, two government shutdowns, and a downgrading of America's credit rating because of the refusal of the house to raise the debt ceiling in a timely manner. Speaker Paul Ryan's record is even worse that John Boehner's record. I guess the Republicans do not like competent politicians. All right, in all fairness I guess I should say they do not like competent politicians who actually get things done that Republicans do not want done: things like health care reform, raising the minimum wage, protecting our economy from the abusive behavior of Wall Street and investment banks, and/or protecting women or members of the LBGT community from employment discrimination and wage discrimination. The bottom line is that Republicans hate Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton because both of those women are very good at what they do, and the government should not be doing anything at all according to Republicans!
Well, buck up ladies and gentleman. I know it is frustrating, but a special election does not a mid term make! The Democrats simply tried to bite off more than they could chew this time! And by the way, the people who say the Democrats do not have an economic plan that speaks to working people should ask themselves who is the most popular politician today; according to Mother Jones it is Bernie Sanders. I do not want to do a post mortem on Hillary Clinton's campaign, but I have to say that the Democratic Party Platform is still a good starting place for candidates!