We have voters bused in from Mississippi and vote totals transposed. Are there any other theories of how Moore didn't really lose?
You forgot the dead people who voted.
That's an old favorite.
I think Jesus Christ might have voted 12 times...
Running through the voter registration files from Franklin County Alabama, this guy called Jesus Christo, aka Juan Chavez, and Jesus Rodriguez voted multiple times.
Now after doing a bit more research on the Internet, I discovered that he worked at the largest employer in the County, the Pilgrim Poultry Processing plant, lost his finger in an industrial accident, was fired from his job despite following all safety protocols because he was considered a Union Agitator, and the Trump Administration went down hard on him because his paperwork was out of status even though he was married to a White Woman with two kids together both Born in the USA....
Now seriously, unless some of the Wackos out here try to post this as a legitimate report, it is 100% satire.
That being said, most Political observers and Atlas posters tend to focus on the "Black"/ "White" voting dichotomy in Alabama (And most parts of the South), while also neglecting the growing Latino section of the population that not only live and work in "Urban Areas" of the State/Region, but actually are most concentrated in the "Poultry Belt" of the Deep South....
How did Latino-Americans vote in Alabama in 2017?
We will likely never know without being able to at least pull up a few precinct numbers from heavily Latino-American precincts to compare/contrast with previous elections...
How did Asian-Americans vote in Alabama in 2017?
We will likely never know the numbers considering that we have a handful of Counties where this is 2-3% of the Vote (So precinct level data overlapped with Census Data is virtually meaningless).
How did Jewish-Americans and Muslim-Americans vote in Alabama in 2017?
We will likely never really know, although at least I can pull up a few precincts around Schuls in the larger Cities in 'Bama once the SoS results are certified to see those numbers.
How did Catholic voters in 'Bama vote in '17?
Again, we likely will never know the answer, but considering that 40% of Alabama White voters did not self-identify as White Evangelicals (60-40 Jones
), the White Catholic Vote was likely a significant component of the Jones win, especially around places like Mobile and Baldwin County (Cajun Vote
).
Despite the fact that 59% of Alabama voters 65+ voted Moore, which is actually remarkable considering the extremely large percentage of African-Americans 65+ that also vote with extremely high turnout (Civil Rights Movement anyone???), the numbers from those under the age of 45 should be shocking numbers for any 'Pub wanting to run for any office in the Great State of Alabama.
The days of the White Crazy Grandparents who backed George Wallace back in the days are:
"Gone with the Wind... Nobody looking back again.... Song, song of the South, a sweet potato pie and a shut my mouth"
After we defeated the White Supremacist rule in the Jim Crow Deep South, and Jimmy Carter becomes Pres, the sneaky weasels devised another strategy...
LBJ famously said when he signed the Civil Rights Voting Act into law (Which he personally believed was a moral imperative as a 'Po White from the Hill Country of Central Tex, and honestly Kennedy's assassination gave him enough of a majority to get the job done)....
Paraphrase here...
"We have lost the South for at least a Generation or more"
So what do the 'Pubs do under the "Party of Reagan"?
Double down on the White Evangelical Vote, so Reagan can pay his debts from the '76 failed Primary challenge against Ford, and successful victory in the 'Pub Primary in '80.
At this point the 'Pubs have front-loaded Southern Primaries (Other than the obvious IA and NH), which gives a disproportionate influence to what is actually a relatively smaller sliver of the US Electorate (Evangelical White Christians---- Sorry Dad
).
So what happens when you have on the one hand a dramatic age voting gap between Senior Citizen voters and Middle-Age and Younger voters?
The flawed and failed strategy of Dick Nixon and Ronald Reagan to pander to the vestiges of the White Supremacist vote in the Deep South is rapidly coming to an end....
Might have worked as a medium term political strategy for quite a few decades (God, Gays, Guns) and the 'Pubs pretty much controlled the Presidency between '68-'04 with a few exceptions here and there, flipped the US-SEN and US-House over time, after many Working Class Southern Democrats and other parts of the Country rolled with that train for various reasons.
Reality is that as the old racist folks gradually passed away, religion replaced racism as the reason to vote 'Pub in state like Alabama, which Carter won in '76 and narrowly lost in '80 against Reagan.
Now, I get the anger against the whole Establishment "Country Club" Republican Party in Alabama and nationally at the hands of older, rural, and working-class Republicans out there...
The Textile manufacturing industry in NE ' Bama was virtually destroyed not that many years back.
Where were the 'Pubs to protect those jobs while they were busy ramming through Free Trade agreements when Bill Clinton was Pres?
Where was Bill Clinton to stand up for American Workers, while our Factories and Mills were getting shut down and jobs shipped overseas when he signed NAFTA into law with a Republican House and enough Democrats to pass it down the line in the Senate?
Is it any wonder that the "Republican Civil War" narrative is heavily focused on the Bannon/Trump wing representing the "Populist Wing" of the 'Pubs vs the "Establishment Wing" (Country Club style 'Pubs)?
It is actually fascinating that although many on this Forum are obsessed with the Bernie/Clinton division in the '16 Dem Primaries, we are ignoring the big Story, which are the massive schisms now that the 'Pubs in theory have absolute control of all branches of Government.
Sort of reminds me of this old Punk Classic song from the UK band "The Subhumans": Subvert City, which if one listens the soundtrack closely talks about totalitarianism from both the Left and the Right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGPs_b2Gu8
