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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#183576: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:07:11 PM

CNN just broke that Ossoff is down to 50.1% at about 70% counted.

I think he has a plurality for sure, but he won't get 50+1.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#183577: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:22:01 PM

It's just shy of mathematically impossible for him to not get a plurality at this point note  It is mathematically impossible for him not make it into the runoff.

PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#183578: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:24:42 PM

Wait, so if we want Ossoff to have a shot at getting elected, does that number need to increase or decrease?

i'm tired, my friend
CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#183579: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:26:46 PM

He basically can't fall any further if he wants to avoid a runoff.

If he has to face one Republican alone, he's probably toast.

edited 18th Apr '17 7:27:27 PM by CrimsonZephyr

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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#183580: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:26:55 PM

[up][up] He's essentially a shoe in for a Run off at this point, but if he wants to get elected now, his number will have to go up, which seems unlikely at this point.

edited 18th Apr '17 7:27:06 PM by DingoWalley1

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#183581: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:28:45 PM

MSNBC breaking News.

Fox preparing to cut ties with Bill O'Reilly.

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BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#183582: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:30:14 PM

surprised

Wow, O'Reilly must be in very serious trouble.

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carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#183583: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:30:31 PM

Seeing on the news that a man in California opened fire on a large crowd while shouting "allahu akbar". Reported that several are dead.

edit- BBC link, shooter was apparently expressing that he wished to "kill white people" on social media.

edited 18th Apr '17 7:32:12 PM by carbon-mantis

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#183584: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:31:44 PM

A runoff would a coin flip. The district leans red, but the country appears to be leaning blue. And it is not, after all, a given that whichever Republican comes in second will be able to effectively rally all of their rivals' supporters to them. Nor is it even a given that that would help; Ossof's looking like he's getting high enough number that just gaining the supports from the other democrats who ran could be enough. Certainly enough to make really 'friggen close.

And [nja]'d by two pieces of more surprising news.

edited 18th Apr '17 7:32:32 PM by Gilphon

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#183585: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:31:58 PM

May O'Reilly vanish into obscurity. Would it be too much to hope the same happens to Waters?

Disgusted, but not surprised
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#183586: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:33:12 PM

Yeah, some guy was apparently shooting seemingly random white people in Fresno, supposedly yelling "allahu akbar." 3 are dead I think?

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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#183587: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:37:21 PM

@Potential Terrorist Attack: That's terrible to hear. My hopes and prayers are with the victim's families and those who are shot and still alive.

@O'Reilly potentially getting fired: The Man does deserve to be fired, but he used to be one of the more saner voices on Fox News (though he sometimes veers into Crazy Republican territory now).

Still, I will not weep for him if he is fired, and it might result in Fox losing viewers, which would be both good and bad (as they may go for more hardcore Conservative/Alt Right News Sites).

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#183588: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:45:09 PM

I forget, is Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity or O'Reilly the one who was getting better now that he was taking meds?

[down][down] Thank you.

edited 18th Apr '17 7:48:40 PM by sgamer82

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#183589: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:46:20 PM

Well, looks like we're going for a runoff in June. A shame.

Ossof would've been the first millennial Democrat in Congress. Every other Millennial who ran and won have been Republicans.

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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#183590: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:46:52 PM

[up][up] Glenn Beck.

Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#183591: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:51:19 PM

[up][up]

Bernie would have won. tongue

Edit- For the record, if Ossoff gets anything over 50% does he avoid run off, or does he need to get at least 51%

edited 18th Apr '17 7:53:04 PM by Hodor2

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#183592: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:52:32 PM

Do we got an article on that O'Reilly thing?

Oh really when?
TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#183593: Apr 18th 2017 at 7:55:00 PM

Here's one from CNN.

Nothing official from the network, but seems to be coming.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#183594: Apr 18th 2017 at 8:19:00 PM

For the record, if Ossoff gets anything over 50% does he avoid run off, or does he need to get at least 51%

He only needs 50%. But he's not going to get it.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#183595: Apr 18th 2017 at 8:19:21 PM

He avoids a runoff with 50+1.

[nja]

edited 18th Apr '17 8:19:34 PM by Rationalinsanity

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Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#183596: Apr 18th 2017 at 8:20:41 PM

Just needs one vote over 50% to win outright.

Has it been called yet or are we still waiting on official results?

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#183597: Apr 18th 2017 at 8:21:54 PM

77% of the vote is in, and he has about 50.3%. He would have been called the winner if this was First Past the Post, but because of the margins and the need for a majority of votes, its going to take a while to make a call.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#183598: Apr 18th 2017 at 8:24:08 PM

I take it that the areas still to be counted are expected to go more than 50% against him? Anyone got a live vote tracker, my one seems to have stopped updating.

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MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#183599: Apr 18th 2017 at 8:24:50 PM

BREAKING: Trump administration certifies Iran complying with nuclear deal, extends sanctions relief but says review underway.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AP/status/854523686300397568

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#183600: Apr 18th 2017 at 8:29:15 PM

[up] Delicious Irony

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