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Embattled Alabama Republican Senate candidate ahead in CBS poll
Reuters ^ | 3 Dec 2017

Posted on 12/03/2017 2:14:49 PM PST by mandaladon

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Embattled Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore led his Democratic opponent by six percentage points in a CBS News poll released on Sunday, with most Alabama Republicans saying the allegations of sexual misconduct against him are false.

Moore was leading Democrat Doug Jones 49 to 43 percent among voters likely to cast ballots in the Dec. 12 special election, CBS said. The contest was even among registered voters, it said.

Republican lawmakers in Washington, including Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, have distanced themselves from Moore and called for him to step down from the race after he was accused by several women of sexual assault and misconduct when they were teenagers and he was in his early 30s. Reuters has not been able to independently verify the allegations.

But McConnell said on Sunday that if Moore is elected, the Senate will swear him in and then the Senate ethics committee would decide whether to investigate the allegations.

“We’ll swear in whoever’s elected and see where we are at that point,” McConnell said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: moore; roymoore; trump
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To: Flick Lives

We’ll know when the swamp is drained when it’s the Turtle and the tumor-torturing songbird getting thrown out on ethics charges instead.


21 posted on 12/03/2017 3:11:50 PM PST by Luircin
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To: mandaladon; 5th MEB; Art in Idaho; blueyon; Califreak; ColdOne; EliRoom8; Fiddlstix; ...
Very reliable sources have told me Mr. Jones is secretly practicing getting blown out of the water.

We're down to the wire. Wonder if the RATS/GOPe have any bullets left?


Judge Moore Ping!

Want on or off this ping list? Just drop me a FReep mail.

Nice roundup of the accusers and Judge Moore's responses.

Follow Judge Moore on Twitter.

22 posted on 12/03/2017 3:23:48 PM PST by upchuck ("Ex-obama" ... That phrase itself honors America. ~ h/t glennaro)
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To: mandaladon

How can you be “embattled” when you are kicking ass?


23 posted on 12/03/2017 3:37:12 PM PST by WMarshal (John McCain is the turd in America's punch bowl. McLame cannot even fake an injury.)
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To: Repeal 16-17

This is the point where the polls need to look legitimate, so Roy Moore will magically get a boost in this polls. The reality is that Roy Moore was always ahead by at least 5 points.”

Total agreement. I can't tell you how many times people told me that President Trump was going to lose the day before the election and I just replied “Polling is meant to shape public opinion, not inform it.” I went on to say I say “You will be very disappointed on Election Day.”

I was wrong about them being disappointed on election day because nobody called the election until the day after.

Watching the MSM melting down is one of the best times that I can remember.

24 posted on 12/03/2017 3:42:01 PM PST by WMarshal (John McCain is the turd in America's punch bowl. McLame cannot even fake an injury.)
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To: Steely Tom
Embattled Alabama Republican Senate candidate

The longer way to write "Moore."

25 posted on 12/03/2017 3:43:43 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill: NFL, Walmart, Hollywood, NBA, BLM, CAIR, Antifa, SPLC, CNN, ESPN, NPR, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
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To: mandaladon
If anti-conservative and anti-Christian CBS shows Moore up.... the game is over.

The only thing that would upset Moore is massive voter fraud. It would be interesting to know what the ALGOP is doing to mitigate demoncrap voter fraud in this election.

26 posted on 12/03/2017 3:44:30 PM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: mandaladon

So, what Moore bombshell will be unleashed this Friday/weekend? You have to believe it’s coming.


27 posted on 12/03/2017 4:08:28 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: mandaladon
Embattled

I swear to God, I have not seen a mainstream media story about Roy Moore for two weeks that hasn't used this exact adjective. Why do they all write the same stuff?

28 posted on 12/03/2017 4:19:18 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: mandaladon

Did they Poll the People responsible for the Yearbook Forgery?


29 posted on 12/03/2017 4:22:07 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Steely Tom

If he’s embattled....what’s that make the Dem?


30 posted on 12/03/2017 4:24:49 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: mandaladon
Doug Jones campaign now sending out milennials going door to door handing out Jones literature in the Vestavia area of Birmingham.

This is a bit strange. It indicates they have money flowing in to fund door to door campaigns in a wealthy area of Birmingham plus the continuous barrage of TV ads calling Moore a child molester.

31 posted on 12/03/2017 4:42:12 PM PST by plain talk
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https://mobile.twitter.com/RodStryker/status/937232516850831360


32 posted on 12/03/2017 4:47:00 PM PST by combat_boots (Pure rot at God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Flick Lives

McConnell.

Trying to look like he didn’t just lose an enormous battle.

A Moore win is large victory for Trump supporters and everyone battling the establishment media and elites. Moore shows they can be beaten. Trump has shown how they can be beaten.

The establishment media control over the flow of informtion, and therefore, of a majority of voters, is broken.


33 posted on 12/03/2017 4:57:06 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Trump20162020
Why do they all write the same stuff?
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
Do “people of the same trade” of journalism meet together? You bet - the AP newswire is nothing other than a continuous virtual meeting of major journalism. All of it. And it has been going on continually since before the Civil War. So clearly, if Adam Smith is right, there must by now be a conspiracy against the public among journalists. What should we expect that it would look like?

I put it to you that, for understandable, but self-interested rather than public spirited, reasons, all journalism emphasizes bad news. And that bad news is negative towards society. That’s pretty much by definition. We also know that journalism, also for understandable but self-interested reasons, claims to be objective. But if journalists know that journalism is negative towards society, their claim that journalism is objective could only be true if negativity towards society is objectivity. Since “the conceit that negativity is objectivity” is a very serviceable definition of “cynicism, it is clear that journalism is cynical about society.

Nobody can be cynical about everything; indeed if A and B are antonyms, and you are cynical about A you will default to being naive about B. But what is the antonym for society? In Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776), Thomas Paine gives an answer.

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

Modern “liberals” - socialists - like to use “society” as a euphemism for “government,” but they not only are not synonyms but in a real sense are opposites. Socialists are cynical about society and naive about the dangers of government. Just like journalists.

Conservatism (in the American context) is not the opposite of that. Libertarians are much more inclined to naiveté towards society and cynicism toward government. American conservatism is, rather, skeptical about both society and government. Our (rueful) skepticism about society leads us to accept the necessity of government - but our skepticism toward society is not mindless cynicism. We respect the danger of unlimited government far too much to embrace the naiveté about government which that would entail.

So the “conspiracy against the public” entailed in the homogenization of journalism via the wire services is the essentially uniform “liberal” slant to the news as it is reported.


34 posted on 12/03/2017 8:15:15 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: mandaladon

Real Clear Politics finally added the CBS poll, so now Moore’s average is +3.2

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2017/senate/al/alabama_senate_special_election_moore_vs_jones-6271.html


35 posted on 12/03/2017 8:53:36 PM PST by Conserv
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To: mandaladon

LOLOL....I got a kick out of this leftist headline from Al Reuters.

“Embattled” candidate.....AHEAD.

Bwahahaha.


36 posted on 12/03/2017 8:56:24 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Two colors of ink plus historically anachronistic initials equals authenticity.


37 posted on 12/03/2017 9:28:43 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: mandaladon

8 days....


38 posted on 12/04/2017 3:50:37 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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