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WaPo: Alabama's desire not to be embarrassed may be the best thing going for Doug Jones
Washington Post ^ | December 11, 2017 | James Hohmann

Posted on 12/11/2017 6:44:13 AM PST by Zakeet

THE BIG IDEA: There is a stark class divide in the Alabama Senate race. It's larger than the gender gap, and it crosses party lines.

White-collar folks who graduated from college are significantly more likely to defect from GOP candidate Roy Moore than blue-collar, non-college-educated people. The country club set cares far more about their state's reputation and the effect it has on the business climate.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: dougjones; embarrassed; roymoore; specialelection
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To: Alberta's Child

A Fox News poll just now on the radio reported that Jones is UP a huge 10% on Moore. The poll was done on LIKELY voters.

This is not good.


41 posted on 12/11/2017 7:08:03 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Zakeet

I think they’re badly overestimating the number of people who would consider Moore to be an embarrassment.


42 posted on 12/11/2017 7:08:51 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Zakeet

How can a single human be that ugly?

that’s like 8 ugly women combined.


43 posted on 12/11/2017 7:08:55 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Zakeet

What’s embarrassing is the DNC/$orass cabal bringing in Corey Booker and Deval, to campaign for ANYONE, in AL.

The joker part of their minstrel show. Marxine must have had a wig appointment, or something.


44 posted on 12/11/2017 7:09:38 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Zakeet
“Is this a good place to live, or is it so controversial that we wouldn’t go there?”

Meanwhile, the folks in San Francisco have no problem attracting businesses, because the city is so terribly conventional.
45 posted on 12/11/2017 7:09:44 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Zakeet
All the WaPo subscribers in Alabama have now been informed by their betters.

After an entire phonebooth filled up to hear Deval Patrick and Cory Booker expound on the need for blacks to support Jones, what will they try next...Jeff Foxworthy doing a "You might be a redneck if you vote for Moore?"

46 posted on 12/11/2017 7:09:51 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Hugh the Scot

Hi.

“The Alabamians that I know just LOVE being told by Yankees how they’re too stupid to know what’s good for them...”

My friends and relatives in AL will point at the Wapo and laugh on Wednesday.

5.56mm


47 posted on 12/11/2017 7:11:09 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: dp0622

😊

48 posted on 12/11/2017 7:12:04 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Zakeet

“There is a stark class divide in the Alabama Senate race.”

Class warfare....that’s all Lib-Marxists care about. Their message is:

“You gun-toting racist hicks be warned: the WaPo has its eye on you. Your reputation as a state has never recovered from the days of George Wallace & the murder of Medger Evers. Do you want to make it even worse? Do you want every Cracker Barrel in Birmingham & Montgomery to be invaded by gay urban liberals carrying rainbow flags?”

(Gee, that was fun!)


49 posted on 12/11/2017 7:12:45 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Zakeet

This is what is known as a Saul Alansky/Eduard Bernays style of political manipulation.


50 posted on 12/11/2017 7:13:04 AM PST by Bayard
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To: x1stcav

They’ll do their best to support Moore. Sucks to be liberal and absolutely not have a clue about what’s going on.


51 posted on 12/11/2017 7:16:26 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: Hugh the Scot

“The Alabamians that I know just LOVE being told by Yankees how they’re too stupid to know what’s good for them...”

I have a childhood friend/acquaintance who moved to NYC, married and is raising her children there. About a month ago she posted, “I know there are enough smart people in Alabama to elect Doug Jones.” I thought, really? You just insulted almost everyone you know in your home state.

I think, for Southerners who move north and then tell us how to vote, and how to think, and what’s best for us, it’s their own feelings they are worried about. They don’t want their liberal family/friends to think of them the way they think of us.


52 posted on 12/11/2017 7:16:38 AM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( I would LOVE to have my old "substandard" insurance back. It didn't mean $24K annual out of pocket)
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To: Zakeet
Well, bless ole Jimmy's heart!


53 posted on 12/11/2017 7:17:50 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: x1stcav

Bingo. I grew up in Alabama, and never sensed that people particularly cared what the rest of the country thought of the state.


54 posted on 12/11/2017 7:17:51 AM PST by lacrew
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch

Have pity on the poor woman.

It’s obvious she’s suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.


55 posted on 12/11/2017 7:18:14 AM PST by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: Zakeet
I'm betting that in the interest of not promoting these lying "bi*****", they do not have an ethics hearing. The two purported problem women have both proven to be liars and deceitful. The other 4 said he was a perfect gentleman.

I can't get over the fact that these women expect him to remember them.....almost 40 years later.

56 posted on 12/11/2017 7:18:24 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: marktwain
"We do not care what you think any more!"

They are probably suspecting that by now. It looks like they are transitioning from peddling fake news to real comedy to try to offset their declining readership.

57 posted on 12/11/2017 7:18:27 AM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: Zakeet

Moore never made a “waitress sandwich” with another senator did he?

His cigars are kept in a humidor and not in some interns private parts?


58 posted on 12/11/2017 7:18:36 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Zakeet

WaPo is like a hooker’s undies.


59 posted on 12/11/2017 7:19:25 AM PST by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: Zakeet
White-collar folks who graduated from college are significantly more likely to defect from GOP candidate Roy Moore than blue-collar, non-college-educated people. The country club set cares far more about their state's reputation and the effect it has on the business climate.

Yeah! This will work on the Deplorables. They will go vote if they have to go by ambulance.

60 posted on 12/11/2017 7:22:33 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Build Kate's wall! Keep illegals and illegal murderers/criminals out of America! MAGA! SLAP ACT!!)
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