Since Howell Cobb, for whose family Cobb County, GA, is named, Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District was represented by Democrats.  But to understand the Democrats representing it, you should know that Howell Cobb was the first head of the Confederacy, until they elected Jeff Davis.

Dixiecrats owned the seat until Newt Gingrich, including fifty years of segregationist Carl Vinson, whose namesake aircraft carrier is currently lost somewhere in the South Pacific, going by the Drumpf MalAdministration’s befuddlement as to where, exactly, Carrier Strike Group 1 actually is.

Once Newtie was forced out of office in ignominy, it was won in a special election by a Republican with 65% of the vote, over another Republican with 25% of the vote, over a Democrat with 5% of the vote.

So, this is not exactly a blue district, and never really a progressive district, until last night.

Jon Ossof, a centrist Dem, came within 2% of winning the seat outright!  He garnered 48.1% of the vote, far beyond the 19.8% of the highest Republican vote-getter, Karen Handel, who advances with him beyond this “jungle primary” to the run-off election, to be held in June.  It was an amazing run, but despite his huge “victory” last night, the national GOP is going to drop on this one-on-one race like a ton of burning crosses.

It’s going to be an uphill climb.