New Alabama poll shows warning signs for Republicans elsewhere
by David M. Drucker | Oct 3, 2017, 10:25 AM
The Republican Party could face strong headwinds in 2018, according to a new poll gauging public opinion in deep red Alabama.
The survey from JMC Analytics shows Republican Roy Moore comfortably though not overwhelmingly ahead of Democrat Doug Jones in the December special election for a U.S. Senate seat: 48 percent to 40 percent. Moore, the former elected chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, fails to hit the all-important 50 percent mark in this poll. But that's not the finding Republicans should be worried about.
The automated JMC Analytics poll of 500 registered likely voters also asked the generic question of whether they would prefer a Democrat or Republican win the Dec. 12 special general election for the seat formerly held by popular Republican Jeff Sessions, now the U.S. attorney general. On that question, the GOP led 49 percent to 45 percent.
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