Doug Jones received 49.92 percent of the vote, and Moore received 48.38 percent, but Roy Moore Isn’t Conceding.
A lot is written about the strong black vote for Jones but the age demographics are also interesting. https://t.co/172jro4tPw
— John Lounsbury (@jlounsbury59) December 13, 2017
Moore wants a recount, and he can have one, provided he pays for it himself.
The loss of a Senate seat cuts the Republican lead to 51-49.
Trump, who openly supported Moore, congratulated Jones.
Congratulations to Doug Jones on a hard fought victory. The write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. The people of Alabama are great, and the Republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2017
Jones will not be seated until next year. If Republicans do not reconcile differences by the time the tax bill comes to vote, it may not pass.
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Yes, second only to Anthony Kennedy.
El_Tedo — “Susan Collins just became the 2nd most powerful person in America.”
To Jon: (I hate this format – no way for direct reply) I agree and said so, Moore has lot of other baggage. I would have had trouble voting for him also. Once again the repubs showed their remarkable ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, with a very flawed candidate. I guess Moore thought being a Trump supporter would be enough, but it did not overcome his faults.
Then again Jannick, both of them together cannot even come close to the serial sexual abuser Slick Willie and his wife the Cover Up Queen. Plus Willie’s crimes are a fact while Moore & Trump accusers – not so much. “We were on a date and he tried to kiss me!” OMG impeach him.
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@stillCJ, I’ve looked at some of the exit polls and I don’t think the little girl thing made much of a difference. I just think Moore was an extremely polarizing candidate. He has strong support among very conservative, white evangelicals. And no support from anyone else. So less religious and moderate republicans simply weren’t going to show up for him. And he obviously drove every democrat crazy because they basically all showed up. The GOP in Alabama just needs to do a better job of weeding out loser candidates early on.
The establishment repubs who did not support their candidate are really the ones to blame for Moore’s loss. Had they bussed all the repub voters to the polls like the dems did for their people, Moore could have easily won. 50% vs 92% party turnout is huge. It was a mistake to make Moore the repub candidate, he has a lot of baggage other than the 40 or 50 year old harassment claims.
We can expect the success of the Moore political assassination just weeks before the election to result in more of such tactics. Such charges cannot be unproven in the small amount of time before the election, although the “yearbook inscription” was proven to be a scam. This is dirty politics at it’s dirtiest, and just when I thought it could not get any worse.
It would be interesting to know if the WaPo stories of sexual misconduct were true. One simple rule from this is, less than one month before any election, publish a story about sexual misconduct of your adversary. The NYT tried it unsuccessfully with Trump. The WaPo was far more successful.
“Trump doesn’t like to lose and if the stories about Trump are true he will now sulk.” Trump will bounce back. Hillary is still sulking over her loss, a year ago.
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Moore lost because there was a 92% turnout by Democrats… Yes 92%! When was the last time any election had 92%?..?
Moore lost because he was a perv. I wouldn’t read anything more into it.
Susan Collins just became the 2nd most powerful person in America.
Dems can only stall the bill if the Senate parliamentarian says it boosts the deficit more than $1.5 trillion overnight 10 years. The reconciliation bill has to be done very carefully.