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Jon Ossoff, a Democrat making his first bid for elective office, narrowly missed winning a heavily conservative House district in Georgia outright on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. It threw a scare into Republicans in a special congressional election that was seen as an early referendum on President Trump.Mr. Ossoff received 48.1 percent of the vote, just short of the 50 percent threshold needed to win the seat, and he will face Karen Handel, the top Republican vote-getter, in a June runoff. NYT

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In Memorial of Jerry Pippin 1939-2015

A recent poll shows that Democratic newcomerJon Ossoff continues to have a stranglehold on the rest of the field, but with 45.3 percent of support, a runoff election seems like a great possibility. And political analysts agree that wouldn’t bode well for Ossoff in the Republican-heavy district.the front-runner in the heated special election race to replace Tom Price, whom Trump elevated to be his secretary of health and human services, in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District—a seat not held by a Democrat since the 1970s—he has endured numerous attacks targeting his relative youthWith his campaign promise to "Make Trump Furious," Ossoff is riding a wave of disaffection among all Democrats, but millennials are an especially important part of his coalition Mother Jones

 

WSB-TV Landmark Poll on the Sixth Congressional District; 4/14/2017 andmarkcommunications.net/exclusive-wsb-tv-landmark-poll-sixth-congressional-district-4142017/

The past week's political events that help shape American  politics.

Políticos de la sem Hiroshimaana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

 Democracy Dies in Darkness Washington Post

Stetson Kennedy Foundation http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/

GeneralStrike Fund for May 1st https://www.gofundme.com/may-day-generalstrike-fund

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recarga

Greg Giroux, a political reporter for Bloomberg and one of the nation’s leading experts on electoral politics, has helpfully compiled every House special election https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DX4nvZ32rOQeU6B-zc_khCFg7b35ezeXtJYG3bIOUDo/edit#gid=0

 

News and Guts from Dan Rather  https://www.newsandgutsmedia.com

President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a powerful farewell speech to the nation — words so important that he’d spent a year and a half preparing them. “Ike” famously warned the nation to “guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”I have given up years of my own liberty for the risks we have taken at WikiLeaks to bring truth to the public. I take some solace in this: Joseph Pulitzer, namesake of journalism’s award for excellence, was indicted in 1909 for publishing allegedly libelous information about President Theodore Roosevelt and the financier J.P. Morgan in the Panama Canal corruption scandal. It was the truth that set him free.Julian Assange

Candidates in Tuesday’s 4th District congressional election made their final arguments on Monday, with Republican Ron Estes rallying with a popular GOP senator and Democrat James Thompson greeting voters in downtown Wichita.

“I’ve heard people whose opinions I respect tell me they think it would be single digits,” said Clay Barker, the executive director of the Kansas Republican Party.Barker said that the party has focused on turning out diehard Republican voters.“We always thought turnout would be 20 percent, maybe a little lower, so we focused on the voters that we had to get,” he said.Nearly 13,000 GOP voters had cast ballots in advance by mail or in person compared to about 10,900 Democrats as of Monday morning, according to data provided by the Republican Party. Another 3,400 unaffiliated voters, who could tip the balance, had also cast ballots.

“This is already a victory,” Thompson continued, because it proves that by taking the fight to working-class voters, Democrats can make even the deepest red districts competitive.“I grew up in poverty,” Thompson said. “I want to give people the same chance I had.”

The Monday Morning Quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and much more WBRN Radio Boston. bostonred.org

El lunes por la mañana El mariscal de campo es una persona que juzga y critica algo después del evento (el Diccionario Oxford).

Echamos un vistazo a los programas dominicales y mucho más. bostonred.org

In Memorial of Jerry Pippin 1939-2015

The past week's political events that help shape American  politics.

Políticos de la sem Hiroshimaana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

 Democracy Dies in Darkness Washington Post

Stetson Kennedy Foundation http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/

GeneralStrike Fund for May 1st https://www.gofundme.com/may-day-generalstrike-fund

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recarga

News and Guts from Dan Rather  https://www.newsandgutsmedia.com/

Trumped: Polling in the 2016 Election and What It Means Going Forward http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/polling-in-the-2016-election-and-what-it-means-going-forward/

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