Will Roy Moore Be Taken Down?

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@ActivitiesGuy

FiveThirtyEight has some cool breakdowns of “what happened” here as they try to take the temperature of AL and how it relates to the national scene. While, yes, some of Bama’s red areas were less red than usual, it seems that their take was Moore’s unique awfulness really galvanized the opposition (sound familiar? Lol) and - even for a special election - there was fairly low turnout in red areas while there was high turnout in the few areas of Alabama that typically go blue (so they went DEEP BLUE and had larger share of the total vote count than usual).

Thank you.

It’s splitting hairs a bit. If I’m a Republican voter in Alabama and I choose to write in a candidate, stay home, or vote for Jones. The results are the same, no? I can see myself writing in another candidate, since that’s what I did in the Republican primaries in CA. Same effect.

@Mufasa

This was in no way a “template” for DEMS to win in a Red State. Even a reasonably respectable Republican could have won this election.

I think this is right.

Question. Jones is filling the seat left by Sessions. Sessions was reelected in 2014. This means Jones will serve out Session’s term, right? He doesn’t have a full 6 years.

@DoubleDuce

Those poor people sure are ignorant and dumb, amIright?

The ugliness of this kind of thing reminded me.

I saw a meme being circulated yesterday by some Dems on my FB feed. Republican Jesus with His arm around a young teenage girl. “I know you were raped Sally, but what’s important is the Senate seat.” Really helping the partisan divide, one meme at a time, right? Please pardon the image, but I wondered if the Dems would like a meme with Democrat Jesus and showing a partial birth abortion on his lap.

@Mufasa

“You get the feeling at times that if some Trump voters were to witness a brutal rape right in front of them, the first question they’d ask would be: Is the perpetrator a Republican or a Democrat? And did the victim vote for Hillary?”

This kind of thing. Edited to say, this isn’t Mufasa talking, it’s part of an Andrew Sullivan quote he put up. You hope most people aren’t getting this ugly in the way the think about their neighbors. Imagine saying that to your Republican friend, to their face.

This is the level of ugly we’re in. Let’s all make memes that call each other hypocrites. People really willing to offend and insult their friends on FB other over this kind of thing. There’s a meanness to it that’s really worrisome.