The 25,000 who "wrote in" some other name than Moore certainly believed Richard Shelby who went on national television to urge people in Alabama to "write in" a different name.
Lost the election by almost exactly that amount.
Thanks Richard Shelby! Great Job!
Dick Shelby is living proof that Adm. Jeremiah Denton should’ve won reelection to the Senate in 1986. He seems poised to run again in 2022 and serve in that body until he is nearly 100 (he’ll be 95 in 2029, at the end of that term, which would mark 50 years in Congress).