Morning Digest: In shocker, ex-mayor's comeback bid to lead Atlanta appears to fall short
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. NoteMorning Digest: In shocker, ex-mayor's comeback bid to lead Atlanta appears to fall short
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Note: Please see our Uncalled Races and Election Recaps sections below for a summary of all of Tuesday's action. Leading Off ● Atlanta, GA Mayor: City Council President Felicia Moore took a decisive first place in Tuesday's nonpartisan primary to lead the loyally blue city of Atlanta, but, to the surprise of many political observers, it appears that her rival in the Nov. 30 runoff won't be former Mayor Kasim Reed after all. Moore is out in front with 41% of the vote with 96,000 votes counted, while City Councilman Andre Dickens holds a 23.0-22.4 lead over Reed—a margin of just over 600 votes—for the second spot in the runoff. The math looks daunting for Reed. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Greg Bluestein noted on Wednesday that there were only 970 uncounted provisional ballots cast in the two counties Atlanta's based in (Fulton and DeKalb), and some were from voters outside city limits. Bluestein adds that those ballots could conceivably narrow Reed's deficit enough to place him within the 0.5% margin needed for a recount, but he'd need to overwhelmingly win them to actually outpace Dickens. Read more

