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Looking back on his career, Admiral Denton had a far more impressive life story than Shelby. AND he was an incumbent GOP Senator from the deep south, which was probably not too common in the mid 1980s. I'm guessing Denton's defeat was a combination of a strong nationwide RAT turnout in '86 and a large number of Dixiecrat voters still in Alabama at the time.

I wonder what issues Shelby ran on, and whether he ran to Denton's left or pretended to be as conservative or more conservative than him, despite being the RAT party nominee.

In any case, Shelby showed his true colors pretty quickly, joining the national Dems efforts to destroy Robert Bork in '87.

Sucks we've been stuck with this turd for 30 years. Shelby is a classic example of a finger-to-the-wind politician who only cares about doing what is 'popular at' the time.