It’s strictly a popular vote winner for this race... I was the 70th voter at my precinct, 20 minutes after the polls opened - with another 25 or so in line behind me.
I did see quite a few African-Americans in line, which is fairly unusual for the precinct. My county went 73% for Trump in 2016.
Other precincts I passed on the way into work (2 of them) were obviously very busy as well.
Without the tramp-factor and the news media focus, I think a quarter of the folks voting would NOT have shown up. Because of this negativity dumped on Alabama folks...it stirred up enough folks to show up and vote for Moore. In July, I was thinking he’d pull a seven-point win. Now? I think it’s closer to 12-points.
As for the Democrats? They should have gone for Boyd (the black minister) and left the tramps-media out of this race, and it would have been a lot closer.
The one odd factor I’ve seen....a ton of money spent by the Democrats and by McConnell. And it simply didn’t work.
It’s an epic saga of an election, and worthy of a Forrest Gump-like movie. All Moore had to do....was run.