Alabama Megathread: Bombshell allegations

[PoliticalShelter]

This belief - that gays should be put to death - is much more popular than people may realize.  If you did a poll, you would find people supporting it in states like Alabama.  The level of pure hatred is very high.

No you wouldn't.

Anyway i wonder whether this has the potential to be an Atkins moment or whether this ends up being forgotten about and largely not brought up.  

[PoliticalShelter]

Socially conservative, economically moderate-to-liberal populists (who are probably who conservative Trump Democrats would be in Alabama) are more likely to vote for Moore than Strange probably.

No, because Moore is a deficit hawk who supported Ted Cruz in the primary, unlike Strange. Strange is socially conservative and less fiscally conservative than Moore. Strange is a better fit for Blue Dog Democrats than Moore.

Yes but Moore has a more anti-establishment, populist style and more often than not, style matters much more to voters than actual policy positions.

[PoliticalShelter]

Part of the reason the GOP strategy of demonising the cities works is because cities are so disadvantaged under the American electrol system and suburbs/rural areas are over represented. A similar star gets by democrats to demonise rural areas likely wouldn't work out so well.

[PoliticalShelter]

Considering how every single Alabama democrat is either black and/or a hardcore liberal (I.e. The groups in the Democratic Party that are the most partisan and hackish) the chances that a write-in campaign from a establishment republican will end up hurting Jones doesn't make a whole lot of sense.