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Canceled
This is why you were so wrong about the 2016 election. You are incapable of challenging your own assumptions
You have buried your head in the sand and spout "the district was won by 30% since then 90s" as if it explains everything.
First of all districts aren't static entities. You are talking about a generation of people moving in and out.
Second you can't compare Tom Price's 30 point victory in 2016 where he virtually ran unopposed. Can you name his opponent? His opponent raised zero dollars.
Because you are not a nuanced thinker, you are missing the point that despite Tom Price winning by 30 points Trump only won by 1 point. That isn't insignificant. That means that this district isn't a straight party line district.
That is why the democrats made a play for it. If Price were still on the ticket, the dems wouldn't have even looked at it.
But history shows what an open seat is when any party has its best chance of flipping a seat to their side. The power of incumbency is enormous. Only a political neophyte wouldn't see that.
You are also being blinded by your cultural prejudice of the south. You see the entire south as the Clampetts. This is the northern suburbs of Atlanta. They are much more affluent and much more educated and not pro Trump. The kind of voters and district the democrats will need if they are going to flip the House.
Let me try to explain it a different way since you are hell bent in clinging to your "the republicans have won by 30 points for decades" line.
Let's say Clingy Thingy is running the DNC and he has to lay out a strategy for taking back the House of Representatives. How would you do it? Where would you target your efforts?
Well you start by eliminating democrat and republican seats you know are safe.
Next you look for your opponents vulnerabilities
1) I look for traditionally democrat districts that may have flipped by a fluke. Could be six of those
2) then I want to look for districts where the GOP really does well, but Trump isn't popular. Good hunting ground to put GOP on defensive
3) district where GOP member is unpopular and Trump is unpopular
Are you going to spend your time and money flipping a district where the GOP member and Trump are popular? You could but it would be an unwise use of resources
GA06 was #2. That is why the democrat party went all in to win it and they lost. It was an unmitigated disaster for them. Their entire strategy has been anti Trump all the time. It failed
But you are incapable of challenging your own beliefs so you cling to this worn out line of "the GOP has won by 30 since the 90s" without any context or insight.
You are politically ignorant and that is why I run circles around you
Hey, dummy - it wasn't just one election that Republicans won there by 30%+.