Posted on 12/13/2017 4:47:57 AM PST by marktwain
Total Ballots Cast: 1,346,147 Total Registered Voters: 3,326,812 Voter Turnout: 40.46% Counties Reported: 67 of 67 Last Updated: 12/12/2017 10:46:17 PM The election results presented on these pages are unofficial and presented as a courtesy of the Alabama Secretary of State and Alabama’s Probate Judges. The accuracy of the election results is the responsibility of the Probate Judge for each county reporting.
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I agree about the hype, but 2014 was a full mid-term election so turn out would be higher. Special elections are notoriously low turn out. However, 40 percent is stunning. Democrats especially turned out. Republicans just couldn’t press the button for Moore. I don’t get it especially since what he did was 40 years ago, but Alabama Republican voters couldn’t ignore that I guess.
Roy Moore was a terribly flawed candidate for a state wide race. The only thing he really had going for him was Trump's coattails. Moore had previously lost two primaries for Governor. His interview with Hannity was terribly unconvincing. Moore left the impression he dated teenage girls when he was in his 30's. The last nail in his coffin IMO was his wife saying "we have a Jew for an attorney." Came across like a racist saying: "I have a black guy mow my lawn." Very cringe worthy. Then of course Moore himself disappeared from the campaign the last week.
Democrats turned out 92% of their 2016 voters. Republicans turned out just 50% of theirs. Rather than vote for Moore or Jones, Republicans stayed home. Given the choice, not sure I wouldn't have done the same.
Shelby didn’t run in 2014. Sessions did.
It was a special election. Republicans couldn’t bothered to vote, but Demonrats get paid to vote. Community organizing in the cities, block by block, minority by minority.
The election us in 2020, not 2021.
What’s the ULTIMATE lesson here?
Not the media, not the sexual harassment charges, not the GOPe Senate leadership—none of that.
Get-out-the-vote!
We lost to Jones because the democrats had a well run get-out-the-vote and we had NONE.
If our get-out-the-vote was as good as the democrats, Moore would be senator today.
This is terrible news UNLESS we use it, starting today, to build a better get-out-the-vote machine across the country but we’ve got to start NOW.
Otherwise, its Speaker Pelosi again, and a Trump impeachment trial.
Rather then cry over spilt milk, I ask you all, what can I do to help?
Democrat money in the big cities. Apathy among Republicans who couldn’t be bothered.
I tend to agree...even before this tramp-episode came out, if you asked most Alabamian Republicans, they weren’t that fired up for Moore. But it was more the case that they felt Strange was corrupted and part of some pro-McConnell crowd episode (they were correct on that part). I would take a guess that out of a hundred GOP voters in the state....maybe thirty-percent of them who would typically vote...stayed home.
It’s an off-year. Some folks would have to waste an hour leaving early for work and stopping off at the local poll site (which some folks weren’t that hyped up about that).
On interview rating with Hannity, I’d give Moore a B-minus rating.
He just wasn’t the better candidate to run, but no one wanted Strange at the job because of the way he and Bentley worked out this deal.
So I look at 2020 and Jones having to run another campaign. He won’t get tons of campaign funding like he did this time. He has to accomplish something in 18 months or face a voting crowd with no action. It’s entirely possible that Strange might mount another campaign in 2020 and end up running against Jones, but I doubt if the public wants to view that type of scenario.
I know nothing about community organizing. I don’t think it works in our rural little town and county, anyway. We must admit it: the GOP wanted Jones to win as much as the Demonrats did. I have no political party tgatvrepresents me anymore. The HOP despises the President we voted for, and he didn’t come out for Moore until it was too late. Backroom deals?
Really stupid folks who wrote in Donald Duck name.....A Bama just screwed themselves big time.....
The Republicans didn’t turn out for Roy Moore. The Brooks and Strange supporters either stayed home or cast write-in ballots. So we’re stuck with another leftist Democrat to vote against the Trump agenda.
“Lastly I doubt the Democrat will reach out ,in respect, to any who voted for Roy Moore.”
In what manner would you like a winning candidate to reach out to the voters of a losing candidate?
Most people don't pay attention to politics like Freepers do. What they know about Roy Moore vis a vis these allegations is what they heard on the evening news. And what they heard was Republican Senators trashing their candidate right and left. They heard 'conservative' pundits trashing him, they saw Sean Hannity cross examine him like he was some kind of DA in a rape trial.
It was an uphill battle to get normal, rank and file folks excited about a candidate like Roy Moore.
Mitch McConnell and the GOPe played a key role in this loss. There are is other “analysis” needed.
But Hannity and the rest of the crew had orders from Murdoch to go after Moore.
“They punted for a temporary pain that won’t be around in 2021” Want to bet? hard to run against an incumbent. And its going to take a while to organize a new party.
True, sorry meant 2016 for Shelby.
He serves until 2021. Maybe just a few days, but still.
It is a bitter loss.
When the entire power of all the establishment media, combined with the might of the establishment Republican party, was focused on one senate race, they could energize enough Democrats, and confuse enough independents and conservatives, to win in a deep red state.
Outspent 14 to 1, the level of propaganda must have been deafening. The Democrat candidate, for the the most part, was able to simply keep quiet.
It is a lost battle. The war rages on.
We can gain several seats in the Senate in the mid-terms. The Progressives will have to divide their resources among 33 races.
It will be much harder to push allegations against all the Republican challengers.
We can win, but we must fight.
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