Robert Kennedy Jr (no relation to the famous Kennedy's)21+ in D primary Alabama

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

So everyone has been paying attention to the R primary in the Alabama senate race in 2017, because whoever wins that is really the new senator, plus everyone assumed that Doug Jones is the presumptive democratic nominee. That may not be the case. Someone with the same name as Kennedy with no relation lead Doug Jones in one of the only polls of the primary Kennedy leads Jones 49-28 with minor candidates getting the rest. What are the odds? A non related Kennedy making this race competetive, because of the name misunderstanding. Could this cost Jones the nomination?

http://m.wbrc.com/myfoxal/db_330638/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=yE0OLLxT

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Just watched some of Selma, including the 16th street church bombing scene, and it has totally reaffirmed my support for Doug Jones for the US Senate!

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

How is this even possible?  Doug Jones should have been a lock and now a fake Kennedy is taking the primary.

Exactly, what is going on is insane. Hopefully with a last boost of funding and heavy weight endorsements, Jones can pull through, and expose Kennedy as just a coincidental name and nothing more.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

I would most likely support Kennedy in the general if Moore gets it.

Also, I doubt Kennedy is winning only based off his name.  It probably helps somewhat but not enough to take down Jones.

Jones is starting to catch up in the polls due to big name endorsements, and money putting him out there and showing that while Kennedy is a good guy, he is not really related to the famous ones. What if it is Jones vs Moore? Who would you support, or would you support neither?

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

So Doug picked up Joe Biden's endorsement, that is good, hopefully these reinforcements will be enough to win him the primary, albeit probably in a runoff vs fake Kennedy.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

I would most likely support Kennedy in the general if Moore gets it.

Also, I doubt Kennedy is winning only based off his name.  It probably helps somewhat but not enough to take down Jones.

He is only winning because of his name. Nobody knows him but contrary to belief, nobody really knows who Doug Jones is either. I had never heard of him until he announced he's running and I follow politics pretty closely.

True, but he isn't actually a total joke of a candidate unlike Kennedy (who will still get my endorsement if he wins the primaries) Literally almost anything is better than a Republican from Alabama (not all of them, you seem like a decent human being).

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Idiocy. Instead of running real candidates, who, at least, have a chance to win under very favorable circumstances, Democrats usually run patented idiots with famous names, who have zero chances. A Black Democrat will NOT win NOW statewide Deep South election - be it for Senate, Governor or Agriculture Commissioner (some did in early 2000th, but not after 2008-2010) - period. A "Black some dude" - even more so. It's good that this is a special, otherwise we would see a "reverse coattails" effect on legislative elections too, as it was in Mississippi in 2015, where Democrats lost a number of races they could win, in part - because of extremely weak governor candidate...

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

I would most likely support Kennedy in the general if Moore gets it.

Also, I doubt Kennedy is winning only based off his name.  It probably helps somewhat but not enough to take down Jones.

He is only winning because of his name. Nobody knows him but contrary to belief, nobody really knows who Doug Jones is either. I had never heard of him until he announced he's running and I follow politics pretty closely.

True, but he isn't actually a total joke of a candidate unlike Kennedy (who will still get my endorsement if he wins the primaries) Literally almost anything is better than a Republican from Alabama (not all of them, you seem like a decent human being).

Thanks

np dude

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

What a load of junk this turned out to be, LOL.

True dat.