Democratic candidate for Georgia's Sixth Congressional Seat Jon Ossoff talks with reporters at a campaign field office Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Marietta, Ga. Voters began casting ballots on Tuesday in the special election to fill the House seat vacated by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) (Credit: AP) It used to seem like Jon Ossoff, the Democratic congressional candidate running in the special election to represent Georgia’s 6th District, would be doomed if he were forced into a runoff election against a single Republican challenger. That is no longer the case. window.hook_external_salon_video = function (){ var sYUI = window.sYUI || ( window.sYUI = YUI(slnm.config.yui) ); sYUI.use('slnmEventsTracker', 'salonVideoRealTimeTracking', function (Y) { window.slnmDebug('vrtt-ext', 'hooking video tracking for external video.', ''); Y.slnmEventsTracker.init(); window.slnmDebug('vrtt-ext', 'rechecking for video.', ''); Y.salonVideoRealTimeTracking.armTracker(); }); } A new poll conducted by Survey USA and released by NBC affiliate 11Alive finds Ossoff ahead of his Republican opponent Karen Handel by 51 percent to 44 percent.