Neither would have Moore. He would have been primaried out in 2020.
And that would have been fine, as long as the Rats didn't get that seat.
It’s hard to say. A plateaued Roy would have had troubles.
He’s interesting but perhaps too flawed to have been propitious. Too rigid. Had I been an Alabaman, I’d have voted either Moore or Strange, no problem.
It seems that maybe his May-December courtships were a socially expected thing at the time. I wouldn’t call it wise even if formally decent. It smacks of the matchmaker of earlier times. Roy could perhaps have risen above this by explaining social courtship expectations that he passed up in favor of taking and loving a wife closer to his own years. That could have gone far to humanize Roy’s image.