As a Republican candidate, Moore deserved party support.
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I agree with that.
But as a candidate Moore needed to make every effort to win that party support.
He needed to stay active thru out Alabama and meet the voters and ask for their
support. IMO he didn’t do that. Maybe he could read the writing on the wall
and said to heck with it. I don’t know but he sure didn’t campaign all that hard
or so it seems to me.
Look, if Moore loses by 5-10%, sure, blame it on him and call the outcome unfortunate. Make of it what you will.
Moore lost to Jones by 1.5%, or 21,311 votes, with a total vote count of 1319791 between them.
Alabama 100.0% reporting Jones 49.9% Popular Vote 670,551 Moore 48.4% Popular Vote 649,240 Total Write-Ins 1.7% Popular Vote 22,777 2016 presidential win: There there's the write-ins. Look at those write-ins. Those were mostly done at the party's direction. The Republican party told their voters to either not vote for Moore or write in another person.
Congressmen were telling them to do this. Other high level party members were. Then t
So with all the shenanigans, Moore was in a dead heat if Republicans who wrote in someone else, had simply vote for Moore.
Are we saying Jones ran a great campaign? Heck, the guy could have vacationed in Gruam before it tips over and still own.
Both teams were working for him.
Obama Robocalls for him just prior to the election: LINK
Trump at the last minute robo-called for Moore too, but that's a pretty tough time to ally support, the night before the election. He should have been talking him up for weeks prior to the election.
Election results link: LINK