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Live Alabama Election Results: Roy Moore and Doug Jones Compete for Senate Seat
New York Times ^ | December 12, 2017 | MATTHEW BLOCH, NATE COHN, JOSH KATZ and JASMINE LEE

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; douchejones; dougjones; election; huntsville; jeffsessions; liveroymooreelection; lutherstrange; mobile; moore; roymoore; roymooreelection; sessions; tuscaloosa
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To: I got the rope

Doubt that. Madison is tech, and fairly conservative. There are other counties more susceptible. Most of the libs are in Jefferson.


1,941 posted on 12/12/2017 8:26:37 PM PST by del4hope
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To: Pollard

Does that mean that Jones hasn’t won? I’m very confused on this one.


1,942 posted on 12/12/2017 8:26:48 PM PST by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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To: Pollard

Pollard wrote:

“Well this is strange. With only Shelby county left, Moore was ahead by 6000

Now check out Shelby. http://www2.alabamavotes.gov/electionNight/countyResultsByContest.aspx?cid=58&ecode=1000915

Moore won Shelby by 9000”

What’s going on here?


1,943 posted on 12/12/2017 8:26:49 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: rrrod

Nice try....Moore was a bad candidate.....he couldnt even beat a RAT in Al. I was right about him all along


No, you are wrong about him. Had limp wristed “conservative” cabana boys like you pulled that “bad candidate” across the finish line he would have won. Put that fact in your pipe and smoke it the next time the “rats” obstruct POTUS on an issue you care about.


1,944 posted on 12/12/2017 8:27:12 PM PST by lodi90
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To: LUV W

Me too


1,945 posted on 12/12/2017 8:27:36 PM PST by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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To: I got the rope

AL SOS....John Merrill 2015–present Republican

Maybe there’s hope.


1,946 posted on 12/12/2017 8:28:22 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Yes, that’s one of the stories that covers it, thanks! Suspicious as heck isn’t it? Why would they legitimately want the records of the votes destroyed? Isn’t that what it’s saying? Thanks again!


1,947 posted on 12/12/2017 8:28:46 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Donald Trump: "There's a lot of people disappointed in the Justice department, including me.")
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Obama was quick to remind us he had a pen..so does Trump..but Trump has a rabid foaming at the mouth media and obstruction within his own party.Obama had the fawning media and the uniparty to push his agenda..It is going to be a rough few years
.not the stuff of #MAGA


1,948 posted on 12/12/2017 8:29:29 PM PST by MONKEY429
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To: Pollard
All that's left to report is pieces of Birmingham. They were stuck on 85% forever, but it just went up to 91% reporting. As expected, most of them went 'rat.

For the first time, Jone's lead is over 1%. Went from 0.7% to 1.1%. Guess that gives him "I got a MANDATE!" bragging rights, eh?

COUNTED SO FAR:  99% (2,204 of 2,220 precincts)
ROY MOORE   639,564	48.6%
DOUG JONES  654,072	49.7%

1,949 posted on 12/12/2017 8:29:49 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

“Trump’s best move now is to go for stalemate for the next year - “

Trump and his band of deplorables best next move is to go scorched earth on the swamp. Expose and alinksy every last rino and democrat until they resign or commit suicide.


1,950 posted on 12/12/2017 8:30:30 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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To: The Mayor

The grand tally is still changing. Weird. I don’t know how AL vote counting works.

Doug Jones (DEM)
49.65%
624,133

Roy S. Moore (REP)
48.66%
611,723

Write-In
1.69%
21,256


1,951 posted on 12/12/2017 8:30:47 PM PST by Pollard (TRUMP 2020)
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To: MONKEY429
I think this really shows that conservatives are not dying..it it’s that we are tired and not motivated to vote for the lesser of two evils..Jones is a typical liberal reprobate and his base will vote in kind ,Moore came across as uncle creepy Joe Biden lite..he did a crappy job of refuting allegations.He made many conservatives I know uncomfortable.Alabamians likely felt the same and could not back him with a clear conscience even with Jones’s abortion stance.We need better candidates of we intend to maintain this Republic

I just get flabbergasted reading stuff like this. Who do you think created that narrative of Judge Moore coming across like Creepy Uncle Joe. It was the damn corrupt enemedia who did and you bought it hook, line, and sinker.

And lets call the DC swamp for who they really are, it's full of just a bunch of commie types, (dems) or commie-lite types (repubs) and you and your ilk think its more important to see the DC swamp fortified with another commie instead of a candidate, Judge Moore who at least has demonstrated he has a lot of respect for our Constitution (oh but the fake-news, lying media made him out to be another Creepy Joe so that seals it to not vote for Judge Moore, SMH).

When are Americans going to wake the eff up and see what has really taken over our governments???? Just like Trump, Judge Moore was a huge threat to the power and control they have over us, including their enemedia. I just have to shake my head at the horrible reasoning on why it's OK to send another commie to the DC swamp. We'll never get this country back on Constitutional grounds with terrible reasoning like that.

CGato

1,952 posted on 12/12/2017 8:31:08 PM PST by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: del4hope
Funny that you want to move south. Told hubby tonight that I want to leave this state after today. He said where do you want to go? I said, well Michigan sure has turned red.

Oh my goodness... Michigan?? Well, it's sort of red for now. Their governor seems like an open borders GOPe type to me, though. Our CT governor is a full-blown commie that has put this state in financial distress.

It's awfully COLD up here right now, too! :-)

WHOA... Roy Moore is NOT conceding. Talking about a recount now?!

1,953 posted on 12/12/2017 8:31:21 PM PST by nutmeg (Trump/Pence 2020)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

So, it looks like Jones won by 13,000 votes or 1 percent. This is a lot less than the 10 percent lead the Fox Poll showed yesterday and a lot more than the Emerson College poll showed Moore ahead by (8 points). I suspect that Jones’ narrow winning margin was a combination of four things: 1) Shelby’s totally unnecessary public statement over the weekend that he was voting write-in; 2) the fact that the write-ins totaled 21,000 or far more than the ultimate margin for Jones; 3) the fact that Moore idiotically spent the final weekend of the campaign at the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia; and 4) the idiotic granting of the vote to Alabama felons by the Republican governor. She got no thanks for it from the felons or the community they melt into.


1,954 posted on 12/12/2017 8:32:16 PM PST by laconic
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To: Pollard

Me either, I have a tough enough time in New York


1,955 posted on 12/12/2017 8:32:20 PM PST by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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To: MONKEY429

I think for the next year #MAGA is no go...we’d better just hope we can keep America where it is today...The Swamp will be supercharged starting tomorrow.


1,956 posted on 12/12/2017 8:32:21 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: onemiddleamerican

“Excellent link. Thanks. I was 19 again, if only for 6 minutes.”

Yes, a trip back to the days when a concert ticket didn’t cost 500 bucks and you could impress a girl just by letting her get up on your shoulders to see better. And outdoor music by great groups who played their own instruments, to boot! Gotta love the memories.


1,957 posted on 12/12/2017 8:32:27 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

The only thing that mattered since 1994, CA Prop. 187 and Trump getting elected was the f*cking border, it’s the only thing that matters now and these dirt bags in the Congress are determined to do nothing about it...


1,958 posted on 12/12/2017 8:32:35 PM PST by Oak Leafer
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To: Pollard

Dems are still “finding” votes. They are stuffing the machines. YouTube how they do it. Disgusting.


1,959 posted on 12/12/2017 8:34:04 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: DoughtyOne; wardaddy; Jonny7797

“Our side should have stood by Moore. They freaked at the first mention of anything wrong.”

If you assume that the smear campaign originated with McConnell and the GOPe then it all makes sense.


1,960 posted on 12/12/2017 8:34:46 PM PST by Pelham (Rope. Tree. Journalist.)
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