Roy Moore was a terribly flawed candidate for a state wide race. The only thing he really had going for him was Trump's coattails. Moore had previously lost two primaries for Governor. His interview with Hannity was terribly unconvincing. Moore left the impression he dated teenage girls when he was in his 30's. The last nail in his coffin IMO was his wife saying "we have a Jew for an attorney." Came across like a racist saying: "I have a black guy mow my lawn." Very cringe worthy. Then of course Moore himself disappeared from the campaign the last week.
Democrats turned out 92% of their 2016 voters. Republicans turned out just 50% of theirs. Rather than vote for Moore or Jones, Republicans stayed home. Given the choice, not sure I wouldn't have done the same.
I tend to agree...even before this tramp-episode came out, if you asked most Alabamian Republicans, they weren’t that fired up for Moore. But it was more the case that they felt Strange was corrupted and part of some pro-McConnell crowd episode (they were correct on that part). I would take a guess that out of a hundred GOP voters in the state....maybe thirty-percent of them who would typically vote...stayed home.
It’s an off-year. Some folks would have to waste an hour leaving early for work and stopping off at the local poll site (which some folks weren’t that hyped up about that).
On interview rating with Hannity, I’d give Moore a B-minus rating.
He just wasn’t the better candidate to run, but no one wanted Strange at the job because of the way he and Bentley worked out this deal.
So I look at 2020 and Jones having to run another campaign. He won’t get tons of campaign funding like he did this time. He has to accomplish something in 18 months or face a voting crowd with no action. It’s entirely possible that Strange might mount another campaign in 2020 and end up running against Jones, but I doubt if the public wants to view that type of scenario.
But Hannity and the rest of the crew had orders from Murdoch to go after Moore.
Dear Idontthinkso
“Given the choice, not sure I wouldn’t have done the same.”
People like you is why this country is in this mess. Why exactly do you believe he is flawed? Not Romney enough?