Alabama Megathread 2: Thou Shall Not Touch Teenage Girls

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So there is a robocall going around with a fake reporter from WaPo named Bernie Bernstein. I'm surprised they didn't do George Steyer de Rothschild.

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Alabama GOP having an emergency meeting at 5pm EST

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Sabato's Crystal has moved AL from Likely R all the way to Leans D.

They'll probably explain their reasoning tomorrow with the usual weekly analysis, but I assume they have good reason to believe Jones is now favored.

Not to derail this, but just wanted to say:

A. While I would keep the race at tossup for the moment, I don't blame them for taking a risky chance and calling the race already. It will most likely be Moore losing anyway.

B. I think they are overestimating Rick Scott's gains as a result of Irma, but who knows? He's won close races before (2018 shaping up to be a D wave year won't help, though).

C. Why is Tennessee not safe R?

Because Tennesse almost voted for a black man with a white wife. Just take that in for a moment.

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you do know Kimmel is a practicing Catholic right?

Lol says the guy who dated Sarah Silverman.

how....dare....he....miscegenate!

Two things

First of all I do think Catholics are Christian but just because I said that doesn’t mean all Catholics are Christians, ted Kennedy is definitely not a Christian same with jimmy kimmel

But second and biggest of all what kind of Christian/Catholic would date a woman who makes fun of Christians and Jesus,oh right a fake Christian would.

Just because someone doesn't follow the perverted and political christianity that Falwell Jr and the Westboro church crowd follow does not mean they're a fake christian. Some of us Christian upheld verses like John 15:17 and Proverbs 19:17 more than Leviticus 18:22 and 1 Timothy 2:12.

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If Jones does win, I do expect McConnell to put up a fuss about seating him even without legal standing.

Why do you think that?  If the election is certified by the Alabama SoS, there would be no grounds to refuse to seat the winner.  McConnell is terrible in many ways, but I can't see him doing that just to be awful.

If McConnell wanted to do something he would have to told Strange to resign and have Ivey appoint Brooks and trigger a new election. If this wasn't on the table I doubt McConnell will put up a fight about seating Jones.

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Some in AL business community worried about effects of a Moore win

There needs to be a HB2 style boycott of Alabama if when Roy Moore is elected.

This.

You will think they have learned by now. It was Alabama difficulties with civil rights issues that allow Delta to choose Atlanta over Birmingham.