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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: miserare
We actually won in several ways:

No this was an unmitigated disaster PERIOD

Obama and Trump ROBOcalled--Guess which one won
Democrats are now completely energized for 2018
MSM after being torn apart by Trump is dancing in the streets
Federal judges will stalled
And worst of all that Bleep in North Korea will be completely emboldened and our military depressed
2,061 posted on 12/13/2017 4:46:24 AM PST by uncbob
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To: uncbob

This defeat is a victory for all those nameless, spineless, self-serving old RINOs fearful of a Big Alabama Bull disrupting the cozy Senate regime’s alliance with K Street.

Take Away:
The Honorable Opposition is laughing all the way to the bank. Our Republic is becoming lawless. Moore was a man of law. The battle is real and ruthless. Support Patriots.


2,062 posted on 12/13/2017 5:11:20 AM PST by Broker (All bills come for collection)
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To: House Atreides

Dickhead Shelby has a lot of blame on his hands! The GOPe won last night! F*ck Shelby, McTurtle and the rest of the band!


2,063 posted on 12/13/2017 5:13:09 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Deplorable American1776
"Really, go back to the DU, moron..."

Moore lost, moron...

2,064 posted on 12/13/2017 5:28:33 AM PST by WeWaWes (When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
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To: Windflier

Can you not handle the truth? I guess your mind is expanded when you only listen to the voices of those in your clan.


2,065 posted on 12/13/2017 5:56:21 AM PST by mcjordansc
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I doubt that there are enough Moore votes there to overcome a 21,000 vote deficit.


2,066 posted on 12/13/2017 6:03:45 AM PST by Coronal
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To: Kalamata
Judge much?

All the time. It's scriptural. It's a command issued by our Lord and Savior:

1 John 4:1:

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2,067 posted on 12/13/2017 6:29:16 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie; Kalamata
Blame much?

Blaming God for loosing this election lacks wisdom.

Ever hear of Job?
2,068 posted on 12/13/2017 6:30:56 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Pinkbell; Pelham; Bodleian_Girl

I disagree that is not the sequence of events

Moore was already rejected prior to these allegations by

The media

The GOPe

And the Dems of course

And he was already running against them

So a collusion of GOPe operatives funded by Mitch McConnell PAC etc worked from day one to stop firebrand Moore who they knew knew they couldn’t control

LaterWashPo working with both democrat and GOPe operatives line up these paid women to smear Moore

Only one of whom mattered to me and we later find out all sorts of discrepancies and omissions like her divorce trial and all these later issues she has though the media won’t mention that

Alll arranged by a dem law firm conveniently final hour and never substantiated it yet carried by the media including bitch hunt Fox repeatedly as credible ad nauseam

And it worked

Blacks came out heavy

Soccer moms in Vestavia and post grad voters in Huntsville and Florence flipped

And a lot of folks stayed home who voted in 2016

And younger white voters even in Alabama tend to be more liberal

Yes Luther a GOPe approved 1970s style Sam Nunn democrat would have probably won which is the essence of all this

It’s comparable to Mississippi except there the state GOP was more involved in total via the Barbour apparatI although former democrat Shelbys late hour defection hurt

I didn’t much care about the late teen accusations and found the 14 year old non credible

It’s like when Gillebrand first ran and her GOP opponent was smeared out by later found out totally unsubstantiated rumor which was a media dem plot

She’s senator now

This stuff works and if it works in Alabama it’ll work anywhere

That’s the scary part

Your solution is don’t risk the GOPe ire

We see over and over again the only thing they fight is rebellion in their own ranks

Never the opposition outside the party and they live for media approval

They orchestrated this yet will claim it as objective proof conservative Christians can’t win

Bad day

And all this women crap now will be turned on Trump

Don’t flirt and make men even more subservient

This is war and I’m in it to win not buckle for innuendo

Nobody Is safe from that....being a conservative man todaywill become like being an aristocrat in France 1790s sans the chopper

They are sacrificing their own now to gear up for the big prize....Moore is their first real quarry on our team


2,069 posted on 12/13/2017 6:42:27 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: Truth29

Yes but to many here no worries


2,070 posted on 12/13/2017 6:43:34 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: wardaddy

I fear that solutions at the ballot box have mostly passed. The degree of corruption and the dictatorship of the deep state/uniparty will only be dislodged by widespread violence. Look at Venezuela for what can happen when a democratically government turns to winning at any costs.


2,071 posted on 12/13/2017 7:12:00 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Jane Long
I believe like Moore. Sodomy is pure EVIL!

Amen, dear pollywog!!


A DINO is better than a Progressive.
A RINO is better than a DINO.
A Conservative is better than a RINO.

Scott Brown, when he won in Massachusetts, was a RINO, but he forced the Dems to pass Obamacare under reconciliation (which is what gives Republicans the chance to remove the mandate if the Tax Bill gets passed). Is it better now to have Warren, instead of Brown? HECK NO!

It's nice to be able to hold to your convictions, but those convictions are going to lead to me having to live in a Progressive hell!

Moore is probably the only Republican that could lose in Alabama, and now because he lost, the Tax Bill is probably not going to pass.
2,072 posted on 12/13/2017 8:16:52 AM PST by MMaschin (The difference between strategy and tactics!)
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To: wardaddy

I don’t disagree.

But this is a war and we’re going to lose some.

The key is to keep fighting and with Trump at the helm, I have hope that he will still be able to do great things.


2,073 posted on 12/13/2017 8:37:46 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: WeWaWes
I know and you're happy about it! You don't sound like a conservative, Moron...

To paraphrase Mark Levin, 'Get off FR you big dummy!' 😀

2,074 posted on 12/13/2017 9:36:13 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Fledermaus

You gonna go work for his campaign since you think he’s such a Conservative ?

He’s a Massachusetts left-winger and has been his entire life. He was Mayor of my city before he was Governor, and he was terrible. Terrible crime rate, understaffed police department and was more focused on building new, expensive projects downtown than doing a damn thing for us folks living in the suburban areas. My section of town was booming before he came into office. By the time he was done, we were on a rapid path to becoming a slum and high-crime area along with being flooded by illegals.

So please, spare me your remarks about how great he was. And that you’d defend someone who gave the middle finger to Christians on a Christmas card by putting a Mohammadan on the card speaks more about you than anything else.


2,075 posted on 12/13/2017 10:14:55 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

If AL is lost; so is the whole country, for AL is more traditional that all but a handful of other states.


2,076 posted on 12/13/2017 10:47:50 AM PST by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017. The golden opportunity is slipping away.)
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To: wardaddy

“My southern electorate ain’t what it was”

Yeah, well that’s not hard to imagine after the titanic changes I’ve seen in California. Aided and abetted by establishment Republicans who helped immigrate it out of existence. What many freepers don’t seem to get is that California votes left because at least half of its old American population has been replaced by the 3rd world. And surprise, surprise, they don’t leave old habits at the border.


2,077 posted on 12/13/2017 11:14:27 AM PST by Pelham (Rope. Tree. Journalist.)
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To: Pelham

Demographics is Destiny.


2,078 posted on 12/13/2017 11:15:44 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

“Demographics is Destiny.”

Absolutely. And culture goes along with demographics.

The economics only and neocon factions in the GOP couldn’t care less about culture, other than that they are often as hostile to social conservatives as the Democrat left.

And they seem to be as eager to get rid of old stock Americans as the left.


2,079 posted on 12/13/2017 12:08:35 PM PST by Pelham (Rope. Tree. Journalist.)
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To: Pinkbell; All

I didn’t get the impression he thought he would lose. Was not campaigning hard from overconfidence?? Anyone know how many votes write-ins received?


2,080 posted on 12/13/2017 2:24:06 PM PST by gleeaikin
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