Live Alabama Election Results: Roy Moore and Doug Jones Compete for Senate Seat

New York Times ^ | December 12, 2017 | MATTHEW BLOCH, NATE COHN, JOSH KATZ and JASMINE LEE

[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.

[Bodleian_Girl]

I hate to admit this, but I have no idea what that means. :-)

[TomGuy]

NYT early results

		Votes	Rounded %
Jones	Dem	22,466	54
Moore	Rep	19,008	45

2% reporting (70 of 2,220 precincts)

[littleharbour]

How long was Ohio showing a Hilary lead in November 2016? There were other states also showing Donald Trump behind in the early going.

[Bodleian_Girl]

[RedMonqey]

Mr. Jones Margin lead shrinking

[cgbg]

This CT Yankee trusts Alabama voters to do the right thing—I will stick my neck out a make a call—Moore by 15.

[In God I trust]

Someone told me to chill, especially with my tag line.
Good advice, I sometimes need to be checked. God is in control regardless the results.

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.cnn.com/election/2017/results/alabama-senate?q=2017embed

[Vision Thing]

Definitely way too many nervous nellies and/or trolls on this thread

Same thing happened on the live thread on Election Night 2016.

And we all know how badly that turned out for them.

Let the nervous nellies do their thing. They cannot stop Moore's victory tonight.

[RainMan]

What I am watching is the differential in vote count. A few minutes ago it was 3800+-, then 3600+-, then 3550+-, now 3450+-

[wally_bert]

An amoeba has more morality and integrity than either of them.

[TomGuy]

NYT early results

		Votes	Rounded %
Jones	Dem	24,185	52
Moore	Rep	21,429	47

4% reporting (85 of 2,220 precincts)

[CatOwner]

Well, that’s ugly, losing 56-44% with 2.4% of the precincts reporting so far.

[Parley Baer]

Roy Moore is slowly closing the gap.

[Fresh Wind]

Now almost even at NYT.

[dfwgator]

All about ratings, gotta keep the audience riveted.

[GnuThere]

Almost up to 50/50 on NYT now.

[Ken H]

That was a quote from Col. Kilgore (Robert Duval) in Apocalypse Now.

[Revel]

JONES 50%
MOORE 49%

4% reporting (93 of 2,220 precincts)

[TomGuy]

NYT early results

		Votes	Rounded %
Jones	Dem	25,530	50
Moore	Rep	24,942	49

4% reporting (93 of 2,220 precincts)