{"id":433,"date":"2020-11-01T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T17:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/?p=433"},"modified":"2020-11-02T23:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T23:08:01","slug":"georgia-senate-race-perdue-vs-ossof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/2020\/11\/01\/georgia-senate-race-perdue-vs-ossof\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Senate Race (Perdue vs Ossof)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Alex Villarin (VI)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>David Purdue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Incumbent (in office since 2015)<\/li><li>Won last race in 2014 52.9% to 45.2%<\/li><li>A frequent supporter of President Trump. Bills himself as an <a href=\"https:\/\/perduesenate.com\">outsider<\/a> and businessman rather than a career <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/congress-trump-score\/david-perdue\/\">politician<\/a><\/li><li>Favors lowering taxes and regulations to stimulate job growth. Pro-Israel. Favors term limits on members of Congress. Pro-2nd Amendment. Anti-abortion.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2020-election-forecast\/senate\/georgia\/\">Fivethirtyeight<\/a> gives him a 70% chance of winning but he is only up by ~3% points over his rival<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jon Ossof<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>33-year-old media executive from Georgia<\/li><li>Previously ran in 2017 to represent Georgia\u2019s 6th Congressional District and raised over 23 million dollars but was defeated by Republican Karen Handel<ul><li>Most expensive House race in US History<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Won primary with 52.5% of the vote<\/li><li>In favor of strengthening the Affordable Care Act, increasing social welfare, moving to clean energy, Pro-choice<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2020-election-forecast\/senate\/georgia\/\">Fivethirtyeight<\/a> gives him a 30% chance of winning but he is only down by ~3% points&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alex Villarin (VI) David Purdue Incumbent (in office since 2015) Won last race in 2014 52.9% to 45.2% A frequent supporter of President Trump. Bills himself as an outsider and businessman rather than a career politician Favors lowering taxes and regulations to stimulate job growth. Pro-Israel. Favors term limits on members of Congress. Pro-2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>David Purdue<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li>Incumbent (in office since 2015)<\/li><li>Won last race in 2014 52.9% to 45.2%<\/li><li>A frequent supporter of President Trump. Bills himself as an <a href=\"https:\/\/perduesenate.com\">outsider<\/a> and businessman rather than a career <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/congress-trump-score\/david-perdue\/\">politician<\/a><\/li><li>Favors lowering taxes and regulations to stimulate job growth. Pro-Israel. Favors term limits on members of Congress. Pro-2nd Amendment. Anti-abortion.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2020-election-forecast\/senate\/georgia\/\">Fivethirtyeight<\/a> gives him a 70% chance of winning but he is only up by ~3% points over his rival<\/li><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Jon Ossof<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li>33-year-old media executive from Georgia<\/li><li>Previously ran in 2017 to represent Georgia\u2019s 6th Congressional District and raised over 23 million dollars but was defeated by Republican Karen Handel<ul><li>Most expensive House race in US History<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Won primary with 52.5% of the vote<\/li><li>In favor of strengthening the Affordable Care Act, increasing social welfare, moving to clean energy, Pro-choice<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/2020-election-forecast\/senate\/georgia\/\">Fivethirtyeight<\/a> gives him a 30% chance of winning but he is only down by ~3% points&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:list -->","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-http-students-pingry-org-vitalsigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}