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ANALYSIS: Credit to Doug Jones, Who Worked for the Win in Alabama
Breitbart ^ | 12-12-17 | Joel B. Pollack

Posted on 12/13/2017 7:33:31 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182

There will be many explanations for Democrat Doug Jones’s victory over Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s special election Tuesday.......

.....But there is another factor: Doug Jones simply worked very hard.

According to his own campaign, Jones held well over 200 campaign events over two months — an average of more than three per day.......

Yet there will be questions about the way Moore decided to spend his time doing things other than campaigning — for example, leaving the state to catch the Army-Navy game...........

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: bannon; roymoore
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To: bjcoop
I’ll be honest, Roy was a bad choice. I don’t want to get in trouble here, but Roy was never popular in Alabama to begin with... That was never taken into account.

Gosh...it's amazing that Roy was able to win the Republican primary, considering that 🙄

41 posted on 12/13/2017 8:10:39 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: bjcoop

Hell ive heard him called Crazy Roy for YEARS... and I live in Atlanta!! its nothing new at all...


42 posted on 12/13/2017 8:11:18 AM PST by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: Jane Long

And despite everything, Roy still almost pulled it off, had he not gone Hillary the last week of the election and put it in cruise control, he just might have pulled it out.


43 posted on 12/13/2017 8:13:07 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Sacajaweau

Greg Gutfeld had the line of the night on election eve last year: The democrats have a great ground game...I mean literally they get votes from the ground...like 6 feet under.


44 posted on 12/13/2017 8:17:02 AM PST by scottinoc
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Yup. Jones campaigned like Trump. Moore campaigned like Hillary.


45 posted on 12/13/2017 8:17:05 AM PST by Angels27
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To: bjcoop

>>>I’ll be honest, Roy was a bad choice. I don’t want to get in trouble here, but Roy was never popular in Alabama to begin with.

Correct. In 2012, when Romney won the state by 20%, Moorr edged out his opponent by just 4%.


46 posted on 12/13/2017 8:17:42 AM PST by oincobx
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To: Jane Long

Moore was his last election in 2012 by 4 points while Romney was crushing it.


47 posted on 12/13/2017 8:18:34 AM PST by bjcoop
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To: dfwgator

Moore lost for the simple reason that Evangelicals didn’t know whether to believe Moore or not and decided the best thing to do is just not vote. They didn’t cast a vote for Jones.


48 posted on 12/13/2017 8:18:51 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (We're CNN. We're not lying, we're just incompetent!)
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To: plain talk

Yea, they didn’t even bother to post what candidates got what write-in votes.


49 posted on 12/13/2017 8:19:30 AM PST by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017. The golden opportunity is slipping away.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Moore lost for the simple reason that Evangelicals didn’t know whether to believe Moore or not and decided the best thing to do is just not vote. They didn’t cast a vote for Jones.

If that helps them to sleep at night, I suppose, but their staying home did get Jones elected.

50 posted on 12/13/2017 8:20:08 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: elpadre

I wonder what percent of Democrats would stay home if a Democrat was accused of what Moore was.


51 posted on 12/13/2017 8:22:17 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Mr. K

‘This is McConnell’s loss’

of course...Mitch held guns to the heads of all those voters who stayed home...


52 posted on 12/13/2017 8:22:17 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Or is it about the write-ins that made the difference?


53 posted on 12/13/2017 8:24:43 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Morpheus2009

>>>I have to ask this question, did there have to be an election to replace sessions, or could the governor just appoint someone?

The then-governor, Robert Bentley, replaced Sessions with Luther Strange, who has voted with the President every time.

The Code of Alabama, Section 36-9-8, says that if a vacancy occurs in a Senate seat more than four months before a general election, the governor is to call a special election “forthwith.”

Bentley interpreted that to mean that he had to announce the election date “forthwith,” rather than that the election had to be held “forthwith.” He chose Nov 2018.

After Bentley resigned in disgrace, his successor, Kay Ivey, chose a different interpretation of forthwith and moved the date up to Dec 2017.


54 posted on 12/13/2017 8:26:47 AM PST by oincobx
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To: IrishBrigade

don’t be stupid

They did not support him, let the democrats outspend them 14 to 1.

Getting out the vote is part of the job


55 posted on 12/13/2017 8:27:17 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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56 posted on 12/13/2017 8:31:15 AM PST by DoughtyOne (This forum is a Doug Jones free zone! Go Roy Moore!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I believe that hubris was largely responsible for this defeat. People around the nation did not respect the people of Alabama, and conservatives assumed that they were one issue voters, no matter who was running on each side and what other issues they had. You can’t run on anger and a single issue alone. Can’t afford to fight both Republicans and Democrats and hope to succeed.


57 posted on 12/13/2017 8:34:56 AM PST by jimmygrace
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To: dowcaet

That’s the key, prayer. I confess, I did not pray much for this special election, but I will, and we all should be praying up a storm in 2018.


58 posted on 12/13/2017 8:35:02 AM PST by cowboyusa
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To: Mr. K

Trump wasn’t supported by the GOP and Hillary outspent him by hundreds of millions of dollars. Saying Mitch didn’t get the conservative vote out in freakin ALABAMA is a cop out.


59 posted on 12/13/2017 8:35:29 AM PST by proust (Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.)
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To: alstewartfan

Not a problem. I usually direct my comments on the article and not the poster as well.


60 posted on 12/13/2017 8:39:31 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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