Alabama Senate Race

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It could be a long night.

With 50% of precincts reporting, Moore has a narrow lead. But too close to call.

I honestly don't know how I'd vote if I lived in Alabama. The Democrat is a liberal, and while I do think there is lots of politics at play in the accusations against Moore, some of it is troubling.

Glad I don't have to decide in that one.
 
I couldn't vote for Jones, just too Liberal for me. I'd have to vote for Moore and let is wash out with the dishwater.
 
That's odd...Associated Press is saying Jones won with 49% and Moore with 50% and 89% of votes in? since when is 49% greater than 50%?
 
I wouldn't have voted for either Jones or Moore.

Moore was a horrible candidate and it looks like he lost. It sucks to lose that senate seat though.
 
Yeah, looking like Jones won.

And yes, I hate that the seat will go to a Democrat. We gotta keep those guys out of power. Not that I like the Republicans, but they still suck a bit less than the donkeys do.
 
I guess Moore can now retire from politics to spend more time with children that aren't his.


Too soon? :D
 
Wow...someone must have stolen Trump's twitter login. He didn't even call him names.

Congratulations to Doug Jones on a hard fought victory. The write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. The people of Alabama are great, and the Republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends!
 
A recount is mandatory if the margin of victory is half a percent or less. I suspect Moore will probably want a recount of the votes.

I have no idea if Moore is guilty of the accusations or not, but I find them suspicious because they took 40 years to come forward. He ran for Chief Justice of the state's supreme court twice; why not come forward during any of those elections? If Moore claims the allegations made by these women are false, then he should sue them for slander.

Politics today has gotten so dirty that it would not surprise me if the allegations were false. Look at what Harry Reid had said about Mitt Romney when Romney was a presidential candidate; he paid no federal income taxes. When the allegation was proven false and someone from the media called Reid on it, his response was, "He lost didn't he?" Politics has become nothing more than "win at all costs," to retain or gain political power.

The Democrats will now use this victory in Alabama as a launching point for the mid-terms. I suspect we will see more false allegations made against other Republican candidates since this worked so well in Alabama. Will it work for them? I hope not.
 
What's left of the Republican party needs to sit down and take a moment to ponder the fact that they have, as Mitch McConnell put it, lost the reddest state in the country. Forget the animosity between Trump and McConnell for a moment and just realize the fact that what McConnell said is 100% true. Alabama, Ala-damn-bama, has a Democratic US Senator.

My idiot state representative, who is a Democrat, has been bragging that Alabama is turning blue and Georgia's next. Numerically, she's correct if you look at vote totals, but ideologically the South hasn't changed that much in the last nine years. What has changed is rhetoric, animosity, and separation of the parties into warring factions, each moving further away from the middle leaving the people of this country with choices like we just witnessed in Alabama. Those who think I'm full of it just look at how close John Ossoff, a no-name hyper liberal who "ain't from around here" almost took a congressional seat from a reliably red Atlanta suburb. Now the Trumpettes are screaming that Handel isn't far enough radically right because she doesn't want convicted felons and child molesters left off the NICS due to clerical errors. Hey-suse Christmas, If Karen Handel isn't far enough right that you can support her even if you don't agree with everything she does, then maybe you are part of the problem that gave us Roy Moore, a bible beating, ten commandment posting, horseback riding, drug war loving, First and Fourth Amendment hating probable child molester as the Republican candidate. Good job. Alabama isn't turning blue, it's turning red with embarrassment at what the "New" Trump led Republican Party has created. They wanted anti-establishment, and they got just that. Nothing beats the Bible salesman who hands you a business card with the ichthys on it along with a fake phone number.

Before you start, no, I don't think we need "moderates" or "Rinos". We need conservatives who believe in freedom and prosperity for all Americans through free markets, small government, the protections that the Constitution gives us. We don't need nationalist or sacerdotal theocratic statists changing the meaning of what American conservatism has been from the days of Adam Smith to William F. Buckley, to Justice Scallia.
 
What's left of the Republican party needs to sit down and take a moment to ponder the fact that they have, as Mitch McConnell put it, lost the reddest state in the country. Forget the animosity between Trump and McConnell for a moment and just realize the fact that what McConnell said is 100% true. Alabama, Ala-damn-bama, has a Democratic US Senator.

My idiot state representative, who is a Democrat, has been bragging that Alabama is turning blue and Georgia's next. Numerically, she's correct if you look at vote totals, but ideologically the South hasn't changed that much in the last nine years. What has changed is rhetoric, animosity, and separation of the parties into warring factions, each moving further away from the middle leaving the people of this country with choices like we just witnessed in Alabama. Those who think I'm full of it just look at how close John Ossoff, a no-name hyper liberal who "ain't from around here" almost took a congressional seat from a reliably red Atlanta suburb. Now the Trumpettes are screaming that Handel isn't far enough radically right because she doesn't want convicted felons and child molesters left off the NICS due to clerical errors. Hey-suse Christmas, If Karen Handel isn't far enough right that you can support her even if you don't agree with everything she does, then maybe you are part of the problem that gave us Roy Moore, a bible beating, ten commandment posting, horseback riding, drug war loving, First and Fourth Amendment hating probable child molester as the Republican candidate. Good job. Alabama isn't turning blue, it's turning red with embarrassment at what the "New" Trump led Republican Party has created. They wanted anti-establishment, and they got just that. Nothing beats the Bible salesman who hands you a business card with the ichthys on it along with a fake phone number.

Before you start, no, I don't think we need "moderates" or "Rinos". We need conservatives who believe in freedom and prosperity for all Americans through free markets, small government, the protections that the Constitution gives us. We don't need nationalist or sacerdotal theocratic statists changing the meaning of what American conservatism has been from the days of Adam Smith to William F. Buckley, to Justice Scallia.

:agreed::agreed::agreed::agreed::agreed::agreed:
 
Let's not over think the results of Alabama's vote last night, it was the expected outcome based on Moore being a tainted candidate. The voters agreed and good for them, run any legitimate Republican next cycle and it's back to Red. As far as Bama and GA turning Blue, in my opinion that's also somewhat expected as people are fed up with "normal and the same" and are willing to vote uncharacteristically to show their disgust. It's the same reason Trump is in office today.
 
Let's not over think the results of Alabama's vote last night, it was the expected outcome based on Moore being a tainted candidate. The voters agreed and good for them, run any legitimate Republican next cycle and it's back to Red. As far as Bama and GA turning Blue, in my opinion that's also somewhat expected as people are fed up with "normal and the same" and are willing to vote uncharacteristically to show their disgust. It's the same reason Trump is in office today.
But lets not overlook how that tainted candidate came to be either.
 
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