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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

To Win Democrats Have to Run Candidates Who Live in the District

Lots of Democrats are up in arms about Ossoff's loss in Georgia. People gave lots of reasons why he lost: it was a heavily Republican district, he wasn't really representative of the people who live there, he made a silly Star Wars video in college, Nancy Pelosi, etc.

But the biggest reason he lost was that he didn't even live in the district. Yeah, it's legal in Georgia to represent a district where you don't live, but Ossoff couldn't even vote for himself.

Ossoff was a carpetbagger. Southerners hate carpetbaggers. Given that, it's amazing that he did as well as he did.

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