Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Update on early voting Date:   6/20/2017 2:18:25 PM

According to polls Ossoff leads the early voting anywhere from 51% to 54%.  If it's 51% then Handel will likely win.  If it's 54% then it will be very close.  Ossoff needed to closer to 59% to assure a win, at least based on historical results.  Also watching the media starting to hedge their bets about the importance of this race.  So who knows how it will end but if the poll results from early voting are accurate then it will be very close.  Last poll before today showed Handel with a 2% lead which was within the margin of error.

Prediction based on results: Ossoff wins - the media will declare the end of the Trump presidency and conclude that the Democrats will take control of the House in 2018.  If Handel wins by a slim margin - the media will declare the end of the Trump presidency and conclude that the Democrats will take control of the House in 2018.  If Handel wins more easily - the media will declare that this race never really mattered, it was a lock for any Republican and that it signals the end of the Trump presidency and conclude that the Democrats will take control of the House in 2018.