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ANALYSIS: Credit to Doug Jones, Who Worked for the Win in Alabama
Breitbart ^ | 12-12-17 | Joel B. Pollack

Posted on 12/13/2017 7:33:31 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182

There will be many explanations for Democrat Doug Jones’s victory over Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s special election Tuesday.......

.....But there is another factor: Doug Jones simply worked very hard.

According to his own campaign, Jones held well over 200 campaign events over two months — an average of more than three per day.......

Yet there will be questions about the way Moore decided to spend his time doing things other than campaigning — for example, leaving the state to catch the Army-Navy game...........

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: bannon; roymoore
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To: bigbob
If you separate Roy Moore himself from the accusations, the reasons for his lack of appeal to voters can be seen more clearly.

Whatever. You people can have it now. No Christian candidate will ever win in America again. The Demonrat/Republican Uniparty knows how to destroy them. I guess you're as happy as you can be.

81 posted on 12/13/2017 10:29:45 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (GOP destroyed Judge Roy Moore. GOP delenda est.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

If I was Bannon I would have canceled my appearance at that last rally after Moore skipped town for the Army-Navy game. Moore ran a campaign like I would expect to see from someone who has been a judge for most of his life.


82 posted on 12/13/2017 10:37:35 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: DoughtyOne

I did go back and read your post and while I agree with many of your points, I still believe it is the candidates responsibility to shape his campaign to deal with situations that arise. He did not adequately deal with the accusations of misconduct, he did not reconcile with his primary opponents, and he did not motivate the large republican majority to turn out for him. Voters must have a reason to vote for someone and he did not give them one. My point being that no one is entitled to an office, they have to win it. Judge Moore didn’t.


83 posted on 12/13/2017 10:50:42 AM PST by etcb
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To: dowcaet
If the Democrats win back Congress we’re sunk as a nation and we all know it, but the side supposedly fighting for us is in bed with the bad guys.

Following that logic we are doomed. It's hard to be positive when all roads lead to conservative destruction.

84 posted on 12/13/2017 10:52:54 AM PST by Digger
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To: etcb

He lost by 21,000 votes.

Despite the odds, he did that well. Don’t tell me he was a terrible candidate. He was outspent 14 to 1 and still came with 1.5% of winning.

There were more write-in votes than the number he lost by. The Republican Leadership urged folks to write in. Shelby made robocalls that urged Republicans not to vote for Moore.

Moore turned out to be an excellent candidate, if he could come as close to winning as he did.

Folks looking to trash Moore should do it somewhere else.


85 posted on 12/13/2017 10:54:43 AM PST by DoughtyOne (This forum is a Doug Jones free zone! Go Roy Moore!)
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To: ifinnegan

Yeah, turning him into a pervert with Democrat shrews for thirty days had nothing to do with it. This is a Jones rehab article to change the narrative.


86 posted on 12/13/2017 10:55:42 AM PST by Luke21
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To: etcb

One of Moore’s campaign promises was that he’d refuse to vote for Mitch McConnell as Senate majority leader. No wonder he got almost no GOP support in this race. That kind of thinking makes me wonder if the guy even had a basic understanding of how a legislative process works.


87 posted on 12/13/2017 11:07:37 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

It’s easy to “work for the win” when you’ve got a 14-1 funding advantage.


88 posted on 12/13/2017 11:09:45 AM PST by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Much less the stupid things to say, if you actually want to win.


89 posted on 12/13/2017 11:12:07 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Boogieman

point taken


90 posted on 12/13/2017 11:26:59 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: fuzzylogic

with all the black celebrities sent in, they probably got every black vote. The Dems also got most of the new voters and I suspect they were blacks influenced by Charles Barkley and others like him.


91 posted on 12/13/2017 11:30:39 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: uncbob

...and we have the means to determine that was the case 100%?


92 posted on 12/13/2017 4:20:03 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: plain talk

Thank you for that perspective. I’ve had a couple of days to cool down. I’m still really mad at what the Republicans did to their own candidate in Alabama. But I will press on and put my energies and fight where it will do the most good, aiding specific conservative candidates but not the RNC.


93 posted on 12/14/2017 6:17:15 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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