Alabama Megathread 3: Results Thread

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

What % of writeins will there be? I'm predicting less than 3%, most likely low 2%.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

Gravis *still* hasn't put out their poll. Maybe the "big shift" puts Jones up 10.

I wouldn't count on it lol. I'm thinking it'll be +5 Moore.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

There is a huge difference between both parties. I doubt if a Democrat could get away with what Moore is accused of in any state, even in Vermont.

The evangelical church believes it is under full scale attack by the left.  They are feeling minority status.  They are voting like minorities generally do.

I go to weekly Bible study where I am probably the most liberal person in the group.

When I came to this area in 1977 I was about the only Republican around.

lmao do they really feel as if they are under attack? That is honestly so, so, so sad.

As a white catholic male who went to a high school with only 12% white people and most non religious, I have never felt persecuted for who I am in my entire life.

(I'm not trying to insult you by the way. I appreciate your posts & perspective even though we have very different worldviews. I'm just expressing my annoyance at many people who are older and claim to be "christian".)

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

The elitist and derogatory rhetoric you people are taking is the reason this election is even close... Democrats need to wake up and realize that elitism may work in Seattle but it doesn't work in Montgomery....

the gop is clearly the elitist party policywise.

people realize this, they just don't care.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

I also know that 38 years have passed without further allegations.  I do not believe that mercy is not available for him.  I would choose to send him to the Senate, as he would support more of the policies I support than Jones.  I would let the Senate ethics Committee deal with whether he should remain in the Senate and the validity of the claims.  

I feel bad for voting for Johnny Isakson for senate now. The GOP and its base has the worst values.

Being a predator is now accepted for some reason. I just don't get it. Roy Moore is a despicable person who has said and done so much terrible garbage. Yet people still support him.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

UN went to Alabama to investigate the state....concludes it's third world fam:

[Alabama has the worst poverty in the developed world, U.N. official says]

This is what the GOP wants for our whole country. And it is what every single GOP member or supporter is enabling no matter what their motivation.

You do realize Alabama has always been deeply poor, correct?

Don’t confront him it ruins his fragile narrative

It's pretty true. Alabama fails to invest in itself (education, infrastructure, etc.) because they keep voting for the most racist candidate they can find (southern democrats --> republicans). They continually vote in leaders that fail them (Like 3 of the Republicans they've voted in went to jail). It's mostly a pretty terrible state. I would know considering I live 10 minutes away from Alabama and go there somewhat often.

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I see jones narrowly pulling it out by 82

82 votes? That's not going to happen, if it's Jones <10,000 the republicans will just fraud the vote, they did it in 2002.

Just like Minnesota and Washington Democrats.  

Whatever you need to tell yourself to feel better, dude

Cannot stand the truth.  Don’t understand that both Republicans and Democrat are sinners. You think you are a better person. You believe Democrats are near perfect and Republican are near evil devils.  Whatever.

I cannot win today, unless Moore wins, and a way can be found to force him into lying under oath, so he can be expelled.

Nobody is saying Democrats are perfect. What we are saying is democrats are doing a better job kicking out the people who have done sexual misconduct (Conyers & Franken) than republicans. There's a special place in hell for anyone who is a child predator, yet a bunch of these republicans are letting Moore in with open arms.

I've voted Republican for far less, yet somehow republicans can't find their way to supporting a reasonable, decent man over an insane predator who thinks christians are persecuted.

People like you are why 22% of self-identified millennial republicans have switched parties (I'm one of them). I'm really tired of the republicans being allowed to do whatever the hell they want and the base loyally sticking behind of them. This isn't my damn America and I won't stand for it, and you better listen to me as someone who is about to pay your Social Security & possibly Medicare checks.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

I just got home from voting with my grandparents. Hard to tell about turnout because of our small precinct but most polling places around here are very crowded.

I thought you weren't going to vote for anyone

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

Win or lose tonight, I am proud of Doug and the campaign he ran.

He did a damn good job as a liberal in Alabama.

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If Moore is seen as toxic to so many GOP leaning voters, why did he win the primary by a comfortable margin?

Why didn't they come out and vote against him in the runoff?

Moore only won the runoff by 10%, and that was before the allegations.

[Holy Unifying Centrist]

What's the turnout like in Moore favored counties?