AL-SEN: It’s Tuberville

[One Term Floridian]

Are Madison and Mobile counties Tilt/Lean D regardless of the R nominee? Maddox kept it pretty close without the attention and money Jones will have.

Jones isn’t going to lose Madison against any Republican, but Mobile is probably only Tilt or Lean D with Byrne.

Absent another scandal for the AL GOP, Mobile should be Safe R with Byrne. Having family in Mobile, I can comfortably say that his constituent outreach is pretty popular down there

[One Term Floridian]

I really doubt Moore gets nominated again, especially with the runoff system

Ohhh you never know. It's Alabama after all

[One Term Floridian]

I HATE MOORE !

BECAUSE OF YOU, DIRTY ROY, ALABAMA HAS A DEMOCRATIC SENATOR !! GO F**K YOURSELF STUPID ASHOLE

You say that as if Republicans are entitled to that Senate seat, rather than the people of Alabama being entitled to elect whomever they wish to represent them (regardless of party).

I mean Doug Jones doesn’t exactly represent the people of Alabama very well lol. Plenty of Democrats have expressed similar sentiments about Republicans like Scott Brown, Susan Collins, or Cory Gardner over the years - the difference being all of them were much closer to the state they represented than Jones is to Alabama.

As much as I hate to admit it. This.

[One Term Floridian]

I lived in AL for years before moving up to VA. Great state and great people for the most part but it's rigidly conservative. No surprise that Moore gets consistently nominated to high office there. His social views are completely in line with a near-majority of the electorate and certainly a majority of the AL GOP.

Now I'd vote for Jones in a fetal hearbeat, especially against Ray Moore, but Jones is far, far to the left of the state. He isn't even as conservative as Joe Manchin; only about as "conservative" as Krysten Sinema. The fact that this forum (reasonably) polls Jones losing well into the double digits is proof enough that he's not in line with the values of his state.

[One Term Floridian]

I lived in AL for years before moving up to VA. Great state and great people for the most part but it's rigidly conservative. No surprise that Moore gets consistently nominated to high office there. His social views are completely in line with a near-majority of the electorate and certainly a majority of the AL GOP.

Now I'd vote for Jones in a fetal hearbeat, especially against Ray Moore, but Jones is far, far to the left of the state. He isn't even as conservative as Joe Manchin; only about as "conservative" as Krysten Sinema. The fact that this forum (reasonably) polls Jones losing well into the double digits is proof enough that he's not in line with the values of his state.

Okay, but it's wrong to act (not you, others taking part in this thread) as if the values of the state should be relevant to how he chooses to vote once he's in the Senate considering they've already elected him.

I mean yeah, as a centrist, I value a politician's "independence," but I wouldn't be surprised if they get booted out bigly in the next election. Or at the least see them fight tooth and nail only to win in a nailbiter against an extremely flawed opponent (see Manchin in 2018 and Jones himself in 2017)

[One Term Floridian]

Why does it matter if Doug Jones "represents the average voter well" or not? Every member of Congress should represent my views and my views only. If it were up to me Alabama would have two DSA Senators.

Paula Jean Swearengin, since when did you move to Oklahoma?

Paula Jean Swearengin is well to the right of me, as I don't support West Virginia having congressional representation.

Lmaoo

[One Term Floridian]

Could Moore winning the primary have an impact on the Presidential Election by causing problems for Trump and other Republicans who will probably have to choose between endorsing him during a general election and giving up on the most winnable and one of only 2 likely Senate Pickups

Wait wat. Which other Democrat-held seat is a "likely" GOP senate pickup? Lol

[One Term Floridian]

<5% chance unless Ray Moore somehow gets nominated again. Then it could be a 50-50 race

[One Term Floridian]

Sessions is easily the 2nd best chance Jones has for re-election. The more national attention drops on AL, the more money Jones will end up raising for his bid

[One Term Floridian]

Embarrassing numbers for Sessions. And I suspect he’s going to do even worse than that

[One Term Floridian]

If Jones somehow wins this... that would make my November almost as much as Trump losing would