Posted on 12/12/2017 3:34:25 PM PST by House Atreides
Alabama votes on Tuesday in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, now the attorney general. The last polls close at 8 p.m. Eastern. Strong support for Roy S. Moore, the Republican, is expected in rural, mostly white parts of the state and in its northern half. The Democrat, Doug Jones, aims to create a lead in the urban counties that include Birmingham and Montgomery, and across a band of largely black counties.
One critical battleground is a trio of smaller, whiter cities: Mobile, Tuscaloosa and Huntsville. Mr. Moore won a hard race in 2012 by keeping things close there. Mr. Jones hopes to win the cities by a convincing margin.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
He’s winning.
Moore has now reached a 60000 vote lead with 68% reporting.
Jefferson 56% reporting.
Montgomery 3% reporting.
Lot of blue votes stil out there
C’mon Moore!
Agreed, just as bad as the old Soviet guard back about 30 or 35 years ago, even when it was so evident that that country and it’s East Bloc were in serious financial and economic trouble.
Just heard Bret Baer say that the decision desk has Jones leading this race, yet percentages rolling on the screen show Moore leading. Now talk about Jefferson County heavy for Jones, him now gaining, blah, blah, blah....I despise the media, most of Fox included.
lol the will either way, it is their only card left
Birmingham and Montgomery are populated overwhelmingly with gibsmedats.
Moore is in deep trouble.
The upside is there is another election in two years. Maybe a stronger candidate will run then. An electable conservative.
NYT results
| Votes | Rounded % |
||
| Moore | Rep | 402,774 | 52 |
| Jones | Dem | 366,105 | 47 |
71% reporting (1,570 of 2,220 precincts)
8.3% lead to 5.0% in a blink of an eye.
Now NYT giving 69% win to Jones
Yes, I noted this too.
If he loses, my thoughts that he should have stepped aside when the accusations came out and the polls showed him losing will be right.
Nice graphic. Thanks...
Sorry, don’t think Judge Moore was the wrong candidate. I do think he was subjected to a relentless and vile smear campaign, with other factors impacting being racism (not his) and the always present Democrat voter fraud.
Moore by 36,600 (5%) with 71% in
About 784,000 votes have been counted already. Mr. Moore leads in that count by 4.6 points.
My county, Lee County, is one of the strong GOP counties and the results show Jones winning big with just one precinct out.
Your map on the left is outdated by quite a bit. Much more red at the top now.
Seems likely now Shelby’s non-endorsement of Moore and media blitz telling voters to write in a candidate made a difference. Unforgivable. What scum.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.