Leftover Discussion Thread: AL Special Election

[kevindavis007]

@radleybalko
 4m4 minutes ago
Report: Steve Bannon talking to the Demogorgon to run for Indiana’s senate seat next year.

Go away Steve..

[RetBobbyMI]

Latest results I've seen:

Doug Jones    Democrat    639,088    49.5%    
Roy Moore    Republican    629,749    48.8    
Total Write-Ins    â€”    22,019    1.7    

98% reporting (2,181 of 2,220 precincts)

http://www2.alabamavotes.gov/electionNight/statewideResultsByContest.aspx?ecode=1000915
Big difference. Don’t know your source.

[edpc]

Who said Moore lost. The fat lady didn’t sing yet

Math did.  The remaining 2% of votes to be counted are from blue areas in Birmingham and outside Mobile.  Not enough in those areas to overcome the deficit.

[roamer_1]

He lost evangelicals their moral authority.   They're cynical opportunists no better than the rest.   It is a scandal that the GOP couldn't retain this seat.  It nominated the only man that could persuade the State of Alabama to send to the Senate who could well be their most liberal member.

 

BULLSHIT.

[Free Vulcan]

Or Moore, himself, saying that the time of slavery was a great time because families were stronger. 

He did this to himself.   No one did it for him....... or to him.

They are going to do this to every candidate from now on, troll up every word that they said, even if bald faced lies, out of context, or said 40 years ago. Moore has nothing to do with it.

They have their formula now.

[Mom MD]

The Treasonous Scum starts at the very top of the Party.   Yes, Mitch, I'm talking about you.

Yes.  Sadly the Republican Party no longer represents conservative interests and they have not for many years.  Staying home is one thing.  Actively supporting the other side is another

[Hoodat]

Moore also spent the last Saturday before the election watching the Army-Navy game.

Exactly.  He should have been on a bus stopping at every town between Decatur and Dothan.

[RoosGirl]

Wow.   That was uncalled for.

Yeah, he's wrong.

[Free Vulcan]

http://www2.alabamavotes.gov/electionNight/statewideResultsByContest.aspx?ecode=1000915
Big difference. Don’t know your source.

NY Times. The state site is woefully behind.

[catfish1957]

BULLSHIT.

Just heard Jones' speech.  Does this guy have an IQ over 10?

[Right_in_Virginia]

That is my position as well.   Our guy got backstabbed by people all to eager to believe the guy they didn't like anyways, was a creep.   

Jeff Flake wrote a check to Doug Jones.   That's the kind of treasonous scum we have in our party.

There was a lot of backstabbing of Moore.  But Moore had nothing to run on other than the Ten Commandments and our need to return to God.

Which is probably why he chose to watch the Army-Navy game on Saturday instead of campaigning.

Moore is now a three time loser in a statewide election in Alabama.  Let's hope three times is the limit.

[Jazzhead]

BULLSHIT.

Truth.  Sorry.

[DiogenesLamp]

That's correct.  Moore wasn't worth fighting for.

This wasn't about our people sitting this one out,  this was about our people joining the Democrats in spreading the lies about him.  This is about the power of the New York/Washington establishment media to make up sh*t and get stupid people to accept it at face value. 


Once again,  the people were conned by those who control the airwaves. 

[Cyber Liberty]

They are going to do this to every candidate from now on, troll up every word that they said, even if bald faced lies, out of context, or said 40 years ago. Moore has nothing to do with it.

They have their formula now.

It's not a new formula.

[Right_in_Virginia]

    Your Trump Love is showing again @Right_in_Virginia

Bite me @corbe

[Bigun]

Not one F***ing candidate could have survived that attack.  It didn't matter if it was Mo Brooks or Luther Strange,  that attack would have destroyed them too.

There would have been no attack if those dumbassed gap tooted hicks had just done want they were told and picked Luther Strange establishment stamp of approval and all!

[Variant]

So, what will a Senator Jones be like?  He's gotta stand for election again shortly and he IS from a red state where it took an extremely fortuitous set of circumstances (nutty candidate with late-game smears, true or not) to pull off even a razor thin victory.

Seems likely he might stand with the (R)'s on a thing or two if he wants to prolong his political career?

[dfwgator]

We still have 51 plus Pence.  I don’t blame people for not voting for Moore.  I would have had a hard time voting for him if I lived in Alabama

You don't go to war with the Army you want...You go to war with the Army you have....and like it or not, Moore was the Army we had.   Trump understood that, even though I'm sure he didn't want to have to be put into the position of supporting Moore, but he was a good soldier.

Something Bitch McConnell never will understand.

[dfwgator]

So, what will a Senator Jones be like?  He's gotta stand for election again shortly and he IS from a red state where it took an extremely fortuitous set of circumstances (nutty candidate with late-game smears, true or not) to pull off even a razor thin victory.

Seems likely he might stand with the (R)'s on a thing or two if he wants to prolong his political career?

He's going to represent Hollywood, not Alabama.

[RetBobbyMI]

NY Times. The state site is woefully behind.

Only county left not reporting on SOS site is Madison (Huntsville)

[edpc]

BULLSHIT.

I think you meant horseshit.

[Mom MD]

Should have picked our own damned cotton.

Wow   Take that back to TOS where it came from

[DiogenesLamp]

The reality is that turnout was excellent across the state. I'm not sure who stayed home.

What got Jones over the line was the black vote, which has nothing to do with Moore, other than the smear ads by Jones calling him a racist.

I saw something a week ago or so about them registering black voters in Mississippi to vote in the Alabama election.   


I would contest this election were I Moore.   I think when the fraud is weeded out,  he probably won.    He needs to pull the same sort of legal challenge Franken did in Minnesota. 

[240B]

What a circus a recount would be

I'm fairly certain there will be a recount. No matter who winds up winning.

[Hoodat]

They are going to do this to every candidate from now on, troll up every word that they said, even if bald faced lies, out of context, or said 40 years ago. Moore has nothing to do with it.

They have their formula now.

Hopefully, the Republicans will have other candidates who are willing to fight back.  Perhaps Moore should have asked, WWDTD?