Alabama is not guaranteed by any means. Gambling has become the biggest issue of the year and if I were to vote on gambling and gambling alone I’d be voting Democrat given my position on it.
Now of course, I am neither a one-issue voter nor a complete dolt and moron so I’ll be voting Republican. But I’m not so sure about the average voter in this state. I could see them electing a good ole boy Dem like Ron Sparks if he hadn’t run a shoddy campaign.
Conventional wisdom says Davis is unelectable. Yes and No. Against a Republican candidate who doesn’t alienate the party’s metropolitan base the answer to that is absolutely yes. He will be unelectable. Now, if it is someone like Roy Moore, who is hated in the cities, or Kay Ivey, who failed at the one actual responsibility her office had, then I could say Davis actually pulling it off.
On our side Kay Ivey is wholly unelectable unless there was a huge showing from rural lower class (normally Dem) women voting for her because of her gender. Moore I view as unelectable in a partisan election but with him you never know because he could alter voter turnout in ways we don’t know.
And I bring up gambling to make a point. There are many Republicans in the state like me who tend to agree with the general position advocated by the Democrats in the state that gambling should be legal. Having said that, I oppose the efforts by the Democrats in the legislature that aren’t about gambling being legal but about creating a monopoly for one Birmingham businessman.
On the other hand, there are many Democrats out in the country who oppose gambling being legal, in general agreement with most legislative Republicans.
That’s why gambling could really mess up this election.
The trick with gambling is, if you don’t want to lose money don’t gamble. Do you really need a governmental body telling you how to spend you money? If Alabama votes Democrat over gambling then it is going to change the way I feel about Alabama voters.