Final results: All Republicans combined got 51% (rounded off). The other side 49%. That is the same percentage Trump got against Clinton. Far short of Price’s 60%.
The Ossoff ground game needs to produce only 1.5% more (930) people to win. Just 930 people is not much in an effective ground game. Between now and June 20 just ten more effective volunteers (or 5 effective professionals) could do that easily.
The current GOP party leaders in both Fulton County and the State seem to be far to complacent, lazy and asleep to address the reality.
It’s like playing Russian roulet and saying “there’s only 1 bullet in the six shooter”.
Alternatively the Republican base could come out in greater #’s and Ossoff could lose decisively.
While the runoff needs to be taken very seriously, I think the ground game took Ossoff from the 40% that was being predicted for him to the 48% he got, and that this is the max he can get.
We really, really need to work on Republican turnout.
Another factor in this runoff is how many of the other candidates’ voters will
come out and vote? Some probably were supporting a certain person for reasons beyond
a party identification like maybe a friend, neighbor, asked by someone to vote for
him/her. That doesn’t mean they are necessarily going to vote again since their
original candidate is now gone. It may well come down to diehard voters to make
this decision. Quite often runoffs have fewer voters.