Posted on 03/27/2018 6:50:45 PM PDT by T Ruth
Just saw this on Twitter:
#ThePersistence
Verified account @ScottPresler 13m13 minutes ago
VICTORY: Congratulations to Rex Reynolds on his win in Alabama's 21st House District!
This is a district that Doug Jones won with 55% of the vote. Thank you to everyone who voted.
#AL21 #HD21 21 replies 176 retweets 405 likes
Doug Jones is the Scott Brown of Alabama. He will be crushed when he next runs.
Romney only got 10% more votes than did Moore, and as I said, there are a lot of people who don’t give a crap about down ballot candidates.
Note that I don’t dislike Moore, who’s a fairly standard-issue strait-laced southern GOP candidate. Moore’s an Eagle Scout compared to Trump, and a Vietnam War combat vet to boot. The problem with Moore is not that he’s a bad person - it’s that his political skills are lacking, and he’s unwilling* to learn any new ones. Trump’s always been a bit of a sleaze from the time I started following his antics back in the 80’s, but he’s a charismatic sleaze. Still, I’d pick Moore over Trump any day of the week. Thing is, Trump wins elections, whereas Moore barely wins even in GOP strongholds.
* Some of the things Moore and Saccone had in common were an unwillingness to take advice and a lack of energy, perhaps rooted in this mystical belief that God would personally come down from his perch to help them win. Moore actually stopped campaigning during the the final days leading up to the election. Whereas Trump seemingly went without sleep, with marathon campaign events right up to the day of the election.
https://www.vdare.com/articles/msm-triumphs-as-gop-establishment-sabotages-winnable-alabama-senate-race
Good to have a win!
Agreed. It was a fluke election.
You can bet your rear that the Today Show will skip this story tomorrow.
If a Senate seat is a “down ballot candidate only one isn’t.
Yeh. Because klansmen chased them back home with portable burning crosses and AR 15s./s
BTW, is there still a blue wave?
The Dems are destroying any momentum they might of had with this hysteric Anti Gun Jihad. it a loser everywhere except dark blue districts.
In Mississippi.
Don’t be surprised if Jones decides to switch his Party Affiliation to Republican in the next year. He’s smart enough to know he is toast in Alabama in 2020 if he stays a Democrat.
He will have to change more than his party affiliation. The man is pro-abortion and a gun grabber.
Watch him do a 180 on those issues in the next 12+ months.
You are trying to spin this. There was a total of 2031117 votes cast for the Chief Justice position, Moore got 51.77% of the total, which doesn't put him 19% behind Romney, it puts him at 10% behind Romney in terms of the percentage of the population that cared enough about the Chief Justice position to bother voting for it.
A man who gets greater than 50% of the vote for a position is a good candidate in most elections. The vast majority of all races usually hover around the 50% mark, and blowouts with a 20% lead or more are unusual, and indicate a strong preference for one over the other.
The very next down ballot state wide election (President of the Public Services Commission) featured Twinkle Cavanaugh (R) against Lucy Baxley (D), and Cavanaugh got 1078108 votes, to Baxley's 909323, giving him a win with 54.1% of the vote, or only 3% ahead of Moore.
Thing is, Trump wins elections, whereas Moore barely wins even in GOP strongholds.
That religious stuff just pisses off the moderates, and they end up hating him. I think that drove much of the venom directed at Moore from his own side. These people are always looking for a Christian hypocrite, and they will seize with glee upon any bit of evidence that feeds their confirmation bias.
Moore actually stopped campaigning during the the final days leading up to the election.
Yes he did, but that had no real bearing on the result. He was advised not to do any further campaigning because there were agent provocateurs attempting to stage incidents to embarrass him and make bad publicity media events out of any campaign appearances, and of course by this time, who in the state did not know of Moore, what he believed, and so forth?
More campaign appearances would have not convinced those people who had been deliberately steered into believing he was a child molesting rapist to believe anything else. Prominent officials of his own party were behaving as if Moore had been proven guilty and they were deliberately promoting the Democrat candidate against him.
The power of the media stampeded our side into a witch hunt mentality, and they convicted him in the court of public opinion on mere accusations that don't even hold up to moderate scrutiny.
What happened to Moore was an outrage, and all involved ought to suffer repercussions for their participation in the lynch mob that got him.
I don't understand what you are trying to say here.
A “down river” place on the ballot sounds insignificant which a Senate seat clearly is not.
Alabama State numbers
R 70–33 State House
R 26–7, 1 I State Senate
Your #24 is spot on. Well said.
The election of 2012 regarding Moore was about Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. It was a Judicial election, and if it is like the Judicial elections in my state, nobody really cares about it.
They go to the polls to vote for the Presidency, and if there are any other candidates on the ballot, they will often vote for them, but many will not bother.
A Judicial race in 2012 is mostly a ho-hum affair.
My point was that Moore was a perfectly acceptable candidate for the state of Alabama in 2012, so people who claim he was a "bad candidate" in 2017, are simply projecting their preferences rather than looking at the issue objectively.
Thank you. I endeavor to state the truth I see as clearly as possible, and sometimes I manage it.
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