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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COUNTED SO FAR: 98% (2,181 of 2,220 precincts) ROY MOORE 629,749 48.8% DOUG JONES 639,088 49.5%
The difference between Moore winning and losing were the allegations.
Not proven allegations. Just allegations.
The RATs will do the same to any conservative that enters a primary
against sitting GOP congressmen.
I doubt many possible candidates that might have jumped in before
tonight will pass. Such as Chris McDaniel in MS.
Regarding Mo Brooks. My advice is he learns how to get more votes
in the primary if he wants to be senator.
Now it seems the “vacation” was an out-of-state football game.
Unbelievable isn’t it? So glad their consciences led them to vote for liberal Sodom & Gomorrah policies.
Lot’s of people in Alabama are going to be waking up with a bad case of buyers remorse.
I doubt it. 90%+ of them don’t follow politics closely enough to realize what they just did.
Should have listened to Trump instead of Bannon. I’d like to hear the conversation between Bannon and Trump after this.
An legislative advisor. An attorney is supposed to be tough, brash (Christie, Giuliani, Safir, etc.)
Sessions is too Southern nice.
Totally agree. AG plus "nice" doesn't compute.
This is such a mess. President Trump should have *never* picked Sessions to be AG. Sessions should still be Senator. Look at the mess we’re in because of that. GRR!
Yep....DOUBLE mess.
NEVER take a sitting Senator, from YOUR own side, as a cabinet post.
Moore just 6k votes back with Jackson, Madison and Shelby counties left.
Martha Coakley stupid. Coakley took a long vacation in the Caribbean right in the middle of her campaign against Brown.
While I agree it’s a big deal, the sky is not falling.
These losses are always a big blow. Hey, I’m not a happy camper right now. I don’t fully disagree with your thoughts. I still think we should give it a couple of days and see what develops.
Trump is an amazing guy. He may produce much more than we think he can at this point.
We’ll have to wait and see.
I don’t like to think of what happened here, because it didn’t have to happen.
Our side should have stood by Moore. They freaked at the first mention of anything wrong. Then the people who made the charges were just blithering idiots. Then nobody acknowledge that and came back to help ore. Very few anyway...
He did a great job considering, being outspent 10/1.
We’ve had defeats before. None of us thought we’d have a guy like Trump either. Now we do.
Take care. Things will look better in a few days.
So, the stereotype is true. People in Alabama really are dumb. They fell for the false accusations.
Thank you Kalamata.
I am finding comfort in God’s Word and the Hymns...
It really shouldn’t surprise us when these things happen in a godless society.
But the end of our BOOK is full of HOPE and that is where I choose to dwell...
Rest well...tomorrow is a brand new day.
I agree. Fox is as phony as the rest of them.
I say TURN OFF THE TV’s NOW.......
>><<
No, Fox is not as bad as the rest of them. It has a lot of faults but nothing like the others.
I’ll keep my TV on.
And still, Moore would have won without the write-ins draining votes away from him.
**** ***, Bitch McConnell, swamp turtle.
Also, the dems won’t be able to give the same amount of money to each of their senate candidates in 2018 as they have given to jones during this election.
Nonetheless, what the uniparty did for jones’s win tonight is such a pisser.
Jones will win far inside the write in margin. WOW. Shelby can DIAF.
And 20,000 write ins.
It was a combination of factors.
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