{"id":180441,"date":"2017-04-18T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/18\/its-a-runoff-in-ga-6-is-close\/"},"modified":"2017-04-18T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T04:45:00","slug":"its-a-runoff-in-ga-6-is-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/18\/its-a-runoff-in-ga-6-is-close\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Runoff in GA-6 is Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/state--regional-govt--politics\/georgia-special-election-will-runoff\/0vjBeCt3UrCagElSrSAyFJ\/\">he fell 1-2% short of an absolute majority<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Democrat Jon Ossoff is headed for a runoff in June against a Republican contender after failing Tuesday to score an upset victory to represent a suburban Atlanta district in Congress.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">CNN called the race just after midnight.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The 30-year-old investigative filmmaker aimed for an outright win in the 6th District race, but a furious Republican counterattack joined by President Donald Trump appears to have kept him under 50 percent.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span title=\"Jon Ossoff\">I would give him no more than a 1 in 4 chance of winning the runoff.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like he fell 1-2% short of an absolute majority: Democrat Jon Ossoff is headed for a runoff in June against a Republican contender after failing Tuesday to score an upset victory to represent a suburban Atlanta district in Congress.CNN called the race just after midnight.The 30-year-old investigative filmmaker aimed for an outright win &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[482,447,375,374],"class_list":["post-180441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}