Posted on 12/12/2017 6:55:41 AM PST by chiller
Experienced political Alabama columnist Jeff Flowers reports extremely heavy turnout, early, in rural highly evangelical areas.
He seems to have an objective view of the race. Predicts 7% win for Moore. Out of state liberal money poured in...Moore outspent 14/1.
“Jeb Bush went into the primaries with a huge stash and ended up spending close to $40 million per delegate. Hillary had tons of cash and little good did it do her. When will the elites learn that it is votes that win elections not cash that is important.”
their problem is that they (and the rest of the “establishment”) have not evolved their 20th century campaign techniques (when you could purchase the dissemination of information, propaganda and thought control via ABC/CBS/NBC) into 21st century techniques in which the Internet provides hundreds of dissemination venues. ABC/CBS/NBC are now just three amongst hundreds of outlets and spending tens, or even hundreds, of millions of dollars on just those three outlets vastly limits your ability to pump out effective propaganda.
The Internet has made it vastly more difficult to effect thought-control, regardless of the amount of money you spend, hence the public lamentations of Obama, Hillary, Jeb Bush, and the rest who pine for the “good ol’ days” before the Internet existed.
No. Voters here are already deeply entrenched.
“Empathy-based law codifies pain, but it’s empty of justice.”
But the son who murdered his parents and then ask for sympathy as he is an orphan disagreed!
Tthanks
Provisional ballots are worthless. He would have to bring in proper ID within ten days Not going to happen
Not directly, no, but McConnell controls legislative calendar and see to it that the vote is taken.
That said, why would Mitch McConnell wait for "the coming weeks" for Franken to take his time about resigning? CNN is reporting that 32 Democrat Senators are calling for Al Franken to resign, so Franken's expulsion is a sure thing.
McConnell could have forced the expulsion vote on Franken last week; he doesn't have to wait for the outcome of the Alabama election. But McConnell didn't do it. He will wait until it best fits HIS needs, instead of controlling the media news cycle for Republicans.
And McConnell's need is to have leverage to force Moore out after he wins in Alabama. Therefore, McConnell will wait until then for Franken to resign, so he can demand a "bipartisan" purge in the Senate. If Franken went last week, the pressure would have been reduced on Moore after he wins. If McConnell ties Moore's expulsion vote to Franken's vote and schedules them for the same day, that will put enormous pressure on the other Republican Senators to vote for Moore's ouster after Franken's.
That's how Senate leadership can manipulate the ouster of a member.
-PJ
“I think what is in play is that Trump is winning. If Moore can be defeated, that is a defeat for Trump and Trumpism and Bannon, i.e., a defeat for conservative populism’s attempt to control the GOP. If Moore were to lose, the narrative would be that the Trump wave has ended. So I think that has huge psychological significance for both the President’s political prestige and therefore power, and for the GOP primaries going into the 2018 mid-terms.”
i think you nailed it ...
Moore will be allowed to present witness and specialist. Frankenstein waved that choice !
I think we are talking about different topics... I was asking the justification for Republicans spending 30 Million to stop Moore in the primary, that has nothing to do with the Jones...
Again, I don’t think so... Establishment can pick a better target for their counter attack..... and Moore was a poor choice if that was where you wanted to start to change the narrative, anyone with even a tertiary understanding of AL Politics would have told your Moore was winning that primary handily and NO AMOUNT OF MONEY was going to change that....
IF that was their end game they could have picked another place to have that battle.... Where they had a shot at winning... this one was NEVER winnable for the Establishment, yet they went ALL IN on a prayer... I think its something bigger, while I agree they want to stop the populist tide that Trump rode to the White House... I think stopping Moore was more than just that.... Something else is going on here.
You got things wrong in VA—badly. So what is the prediction in AL?
- Amendment 17 (Ratified 4/8/1913)
- The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
I, too, got things badly wrong in Virginia I backed Ed Gillespie...all the way. I really believed he would abandon his “Never Trump” mantras,...but in the end he stayed with Mitch McConnell and the GOP RINO, Establishment. That was his big mistake.
The Trump voters who were correct, I wasn’t, bottom line, Ed Gillespie was a very weak candidate...across the board. The Trumpsters (I am one) sat on their hands by the thousands and sent him politically to never never land. We screwed up!!!
Moore 5-7
But I wouldn’t be surprised if Moore won it by more.
Really - that was pure gold...
I am hoping and praying you are right, 100%!!! God be with us and God be with the victory of Judge, roy Moore, tonight.
Folks in Alabama, get out and cast your votes for Judge Roy Moore....he and we need every single vote we can get. DO IT.....DO IT NOW!!! MAGA!!!
Moore by 2 assuming no voter fraud. Jones has a real shot. God help us. Go Moore.
I hope the buses going from polling place to polling place are being followed, photographed, reported to the police, etc.
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