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To: Yosemitest

Get over it. Moore lost. Moore carried unusual baggage. He was also a singularly poor candidate. He left the state the weekend before the election. I can only surmise he didn’t want to win enough to campaign the weekend before the election. Every election lost by Republican is not due to voter fraud. Certainly not 20,000 votes of voter fraud.


19 posted on 12/16/2017 10:31:51 PM PST by Dave W
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To: Dave W

The election needs to be carefully analyzed before passing blame. However its obvious that the opposition from the republican establishment was the deciding factor. Are you part of the republican establishment?


21 posted on 12/16/2017 10:39:29 PM PST by Swirl
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To: Dave W
WRONG !
Only an ABSOLUTE IDIOT would believe the Democrats did NOT cheat, and JUDGE Roy Moore lost !
But that's what the "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS"want people to believe also.
God hating people DESPISE God-lead leaders like JUDGE Roy Moore !
30 posted on 12/17/2017 3:36:30 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Dave W
Get over it. Moore lost. Moore carried unusual baggage. He was also a singularly poor candidate. He left the state the weekend before the election. I can only surmise he didn’t want to win enough to campaign the weekend before the election.

Precisely. This isn't Moore's first statewide election defeat. He also failed to win in his two attempts at becoming governor:

2006

In October 2005, Moore announced that he would run against Governor Bob Riley in the 2006 Republican gubernatorial primary.[143] Moore's campaign relied largely on his popularity among Christian right voters.[143][144] However, Moore consistently performed poorly in polling and in fundraising.[144]

In the June 2006 primary, Riley won the primary, 306,665 (66.6 percent) to 153,354 (33.34 percent).[145] Following such a major defeat, Moore accused the chair of the state's Republican Party of bias towards Riley and called on her to resign; he also criticized President Bush for praising Riley's administration. His criticism of the state Republican Party was so harsh that he eventually had to call a press conference to quell rumors that he would run as an independent if he lost the Republican primary.[146] In his concession speech, Moore told supporters that "God's will has been done." Moore did not call Riley to concede and refused to support Riley in the general election because of Riley's acceptance of campaign contributions from political action committees.[146]

2010

In 2009, Moore launched another campaign for governor of Alabama in 2010 election.[147] In the first round of the June 2010 Republican primary election, Moore came in fourth place with 19.31% of the vote, behind Bradley Byrne (27.89%), Robert J. Bentley (25.15%), and Tim James (25.12%).[148]

In the 2012 election for Chief Justice of Alabama, he beat his Democratic opponent by about 3.52%. The underage partner scandal completely erased the small margin of error he had. Now, this wasn't such a big deal back in the day. But it is a big deal today. Life isn't fair, and in politics, that goes double.
31 posted on 12/17/2017 3:52:04 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Dave W

Yeah but transparency is always a good thing win or lose


37 posted on 12/17/2017 5:47:24 AM PST by italianquaker
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