AL-GOV: Ivey confirms she is NOT a lesbian alcoholic

[Del Tachi]

Kay Ivey has never been married so it's not like Pat Todd was cluing everybody in on something that the rumor mill had not been spewing for years.  Aspects of Kay Ivey's personal life have been "baked-in" to her public persona for years, and I don't expect that this will affect her campaign in any substantial way. 

[Del Tachi]

Am I the only one a little shook by the fact that Maddox got 40% of the vote? Doug Jones effect?

Maddox was a really good candidate on his own but I think maybe the Roy Moore Fiasco disenchanted a lot of voters with the AL GOP just not enough to swing the race

Maddox was a decent candidate who ran a very poor campaign.  40% is still a pretty abysmal result, and I suspect the "closeness" of the outcome has a lot to do with how poor of a campaigner Kay Ivey was, hangover from a contested GOP primary, and the fact that liberal transplants are transforming BHM and HSV at rapid clip.