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.
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“Just enough to depress the base and turn out the urbanites.”
The same thing happened in VA to some extent ... not enough to win the governor’s mansion, but enough to give the rats wins at the state level.
This sucks ... bad ... but the war is not lost ... not by a long shot. Trump is a fighter. He makes pretty good use of the bully pulpit. Don’t give up. Not yet anyway :-).
This will be the last tally showing Judge Moore ahead. People who could have made a difference didn’t.
Republicans showed up to the polls to vote for a PRO ABORTION guy..what does that say about the GOP
“We need to completely stop voting for ALL Republicans and let the party die!”
The most intelligent post on the entire thread.
COUNTED SO FAR: 86% ROY MOORE 530,766 49.1% DOUG JONES 532,452 49.3%
Leave please, if you are a Republican, I’d be surprised. You sound like a RINO!
Trump isn’t running tonight. This is a VERY different race.
Mo Brooks is a solid conservative... and would have won tonight by 20 points.
Hank “Is Guam going to capsize?” Johnson says hi. Unfortunately, you got to dance with the one you brung ya. That was Moore, obviously.
Jones just took the lead.
For good.
I’m going to bed.
Screw the GOPe
Yeah this is a dangerous precedent. They literally just have to accuse conservatives of sexual harassment and the Democrats win.
GOPe did us in again ...
Politico has Jones ahead now by .2% with 84% of vote counted.
so much for God hearing our prayers and intervening to let goodness prevail over evil and our land be healed.
Thank God Senator Jones won’t be serving a full six years.
McConnell cost us this one. And Moore was a lousy candidate.
Yes it is. It could be the end of MAGA.
McConnell is a very happy man tonight. He’s closer to being Minority Leader again, which is what he wants.
Jones just took the lead and. Cavuto is laughingl. All of Fox is giggling.
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