Roy Moore considering run for Alabama governor/AG

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Oh, please let him hand us another race. We can singlehandedly rebuild the ALDEM bench through Roy Moore.

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https://twitter.com/vaughnhillyard/status/948568885657329665

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From ~10 AM eastern

If he won the nomination, could this be a competitive seat?

It's really difficult to see how, it takes in too much of Southeastern Alabama to be viable and most of the black parts of Montgomery are excised into the neighboring 7th. Maybe if there was a young, dynamic, pro-life Democrat based out of Dothan, but I don't think such a candidate exists.

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Assuming Moore did run here and actually dethroned Roby, Republicans might try to dislodge him when they redraw the districts. Alabama will lose a district in the next round of redistricting, and if I had to guess the 4th is the one that would get the axe, but if the GOP really wanted a more establishment-reliable incumbent in the seat than Moore, they could redraw the 2nd to be mostly based around a corridor that took in the full metropolitan area of Montgomery rather than cutting it up and then extend it to Auburn and Phenix City. That would give friendlier territory for an establishment Republican to run in. Dothan and Enterprise could then get swallowed up by the Mobile-anchored 1st. Granted, this would make the 2nd be around R+6-8 so it would also be more vulnerable to being picked up by the Democrats in a bad year or if the seat were open.

Even if Moore doesn't decide to pull the trigger in the 2nd or loses a primary if he does, it seems to me that having a district anchored by the Wiregrass region is just asking for a stream of anti-establishment Republican bombthrowers to get churned out in the near future.

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Wow, now I feel like a dope. Not sure how I missed that.