From the article: “The secret project, carried out on Facebook and Twitter, was likely too small to have a significant effect on the race, in which the Democratic candidate it was designed to help, Doug Jones, edged out the Republican, Roy S. Moore.”
As long as Republican’s persist in nominating flawed candidates, democrats will persist in winning close elections. Judge Roy Moore should never have been considered for nomination.
There are no such thing as flawless candidates. The Democrats only need to persuade pearl-clutchers that there is a flaw by getting a half dozen liars to make accusations or say something exploitable. It doesn’t even have to be something bad... just something weird, or something they can mock, like a guy’s way of spelling “potato.”
In Moore’s case the accusation was that with a girl’s mother’s permission, he gave a girl a kiss.