If you’re still keeping score, the Democrats officially lost the Georgia 7th district race. Feeling bad that the Republicans haven’t been jolted hard enough to get their attention? Don’t.
Incumbent Rob Woodall (R) has a margin of victory of 433 votes, or roughly .2 percentage points. Yep, that’s two tenths.
And in the past? Representative Woodall typically wins this district by 20 percentage points. If I’m doing my math properly, that’s something like a 99% drop in the winning margin.
While some of this drop is attributable to changing demographics, this should catch and hold the attention of Republicans. The GOP brand is leaking oil all over the place. They need a new gasket, or more likely better ideology. At the moment, I’d sell them short on the stock market.
