It appears the folks in Alabama would beg to differ.
No, that is just you and others like you *PROJECTING* your opinion on them. Moore was leading by a very large margin until those kook bitches came out and made unprovable accusations against him.
The problem is kook bitches making unprovable accusations, which the larger National party immediately scooped up and helped to spread.
The combination of the lying accusations, the media assault, and the deliberate backstabbing of Moore by Republican party officials is what created the illusion that Moore was a "bad candidate."
They did the same thing to Chris McDaniel in Mississippi, except they called him a "Racist that wants to keep black people from voting."
When Washington DC doesn't want a reformer, they do everything they can to stab them in the back. They did it to McDaniel, they did it to Sharon Angle, and they've done it to several other candidates as well.