Posted on 12/12/2017 3:34:25 PM PST by 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.
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Steelfish must be crying in his chicken soup after reading your post, Tomguy....
This would be epic fail if jones wins. We get sessions as AG and lose senate seat in alabama? Would be really bad politics
Roy Moore
Republican
175,947
52.0%
Doug Jones
Democrat
157,841
46.7
32 % in.
Total Write-Ins
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4,538
1.3
FOX: Moore “OVER PREFORMING” in counties Trump won !!!
Ping to 769.
Roy Moore leads by 5 percentage points over Doug Jones with 32 percent of precincts fully reporting.
Dilly! Dilly!
COUNTED SO FAR: 33% ROY MOORE 180,012 52.1% DOUG JONES 161,198 46.6%
Moore up 8 with 25% of vote in, huge numbers of rural counties out.
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Hopefully it’ll take him to a solid 7 to 8 percent lead and stay there.
Birmingham has not been counted.
And Montgomery.
I’m smelling fraud...these results are not making sense
What are the counties that haven’t come in that are usually dem counties ?
Dilly! Dilly!
(snicker, snicker!)
This looks very much like a Jones win. Republicans once again cut off their nose to spite their face. What a disaster.
The Atlantic is showing 38% reporting with Moore up by 6% and nearly 22,000 votes.
Counties in the Northwest don’t seem to be performing as strong GOP as expected. Any idea why?
Very true!
“I enjoy election night forums, and watching ‘Concern Trolls,’ and somehow ( I must be psychic ) being able to guess who the Non-Contributors are.”
That is often very easy isn’t it.
LOL!
“Birmingham has not been counted.
And Montgomery.”
Yeah ... this is looking close and not good :-(.
I hate the RNC ... bunch of spineless, balless bastards.
Madison County and Huntsville area have lots of Yankees, teacher union types, and trendy types. Lots of Whites up there voting for Jones it appears.
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