[wright2bear]

What I find interesting, is that the total votes are not anywhere near the total as it was for the Alabama Senate race in 2014. For neither Dems and especially the Republicans. Given the hype of this election, you would have thought it would have broken records.

2014

Shelby - 1,335,104

Crumpton - 748,709

[wright2bear]

I realize this was an off year election, but still, the Republicans did not get out to vote in AL.

[napscoordinator]

I agree about the hype, but 2014 was a full mid-term election so turn out would be higher. Special elections are notoriously low turn out. However, 40 percent is stunning. Democrats especially turned out. Republicans just couldn’t press the button for Moore. I don’t get it especially since what he did was 40 years ago, but Alabama Republican voters couldn’t ignore that I guess.

[DoodleDawg]

Shelby didn’t run in 2014. Sessions did.

[backwoods-engineer]

It was a special election. Republicans couldn’t bothered to vote, but Demonrats get paid to vote. Community organizing in the cities, block by block, minority by minority.

[Alas Babylon!]

What’s the ULTIMATE lesson here?

Not the media, not the sexual harassment charges, not the GOPe Senate leadership—none of that.

Get-out-the-vote!

We lost to Jones because the democrats had a well run get-out-the-vote and we had NONE.

If our get-out-the-vote was as good as the democrats, Moore would be senator today.

This is terrible news UNLESS we use it, starting today, to build a better get-out-the-vote machine across the country but we’ve got to start NOW.

Otherwise, its Speaker Pelosi again, and a Trump impeachment trial.

Rather then cry over spilt milk, I ask you all, what can I do to help?