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Column: How Doug Jones lost in nearly every congressional district but still won the stateBy Christopher Ingraham, Washington PostOpinionPublished: December 14, 2017Updated: December 14, 2017 at 03:01 PMPreliminary numbers for Alabama’s U.S. Senate election crunched by J. Miles Coleman of Decision Desk HQ reveal something astonishing: Democrat Doug Jones lost in six of Alabama’s seven congressional districts, but he still managed to beat Roy Moore by 1.5 percentage points in the entire state.Voters in Alabama’s 7th Congressional District opted for Jones by a whopping 78 percent to 21 percent margin, the most lopsided result in the state. But Jones lost everywhere else, usually by just a few percentage points.The simple explanation for this is that nearly two-thirds of voters the 7th District are African-American, a group that overwhelmingly supported Jones in his contest with Roy Moore.Continued at: http://tbo.com/opinion/columns/Column-How-Doug-Jones-lost-in-nearly-every-congressional-district-but-still-won-the-state_163599775
Not to mention getting 92% of the 2016 Dem turnout. Never has that happened anywhere I know of, not even close.And because it's Dems, I'm very suspicious of that.
Actually, I would think 50% show out of Republicans from 2016 too as significant too. It's really the way it is often, voters either show up to elect or don't show up and their candidate loses.
