In a significant development, Republican Senate hopeful, Roy Moore narrowly lost to Democratic nominee Doug Jones in deeply conservative Alabama.
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Jones is ahead by roughly 1.5 percentage points.
Jones is the first Democrat to win an Alabama Senate seat in 25 years.
What happened?
Multiple women came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct, including molestation of a then 14-year-old, against Moore.
Moore has consistently denied the allegations, but the specific charges were disturbing and believable enough to warrant staying home for many disaffected Republicans and independents.
Jazz Shaw, a blogger at the conservative news and opinion site Hot Air explains how extenuating circumstances influenced the outcome in Alabama and what can be done to rectify the situation:
The Democrats won a seat in Alabama last night which they should never have come within a country mile of. Congratulations. Enjoy the seat until January of 2021, which is precisely how long you will hold onto it. The only thing that victory demonstrated was that the Alabama Republican Party got stuck with one of only a handful of Republicans who could have conceivably lost that race. And even then, the only reason Roy Moore failed was the Washington Post article on alleged sexual assault which appeared mere weeks before the final vote. Even with his history of having been removed from the bench as a judge and all of the “inflammatory” remarks dredged up from the opposition research folder, he still would have cruised to an easy win were it not for those stories.
So how does the GOP recover in Alabama? That’s a non-issue. Every vote that Doug Jones takes with the Democrats (and there will be plenty) will be recorded and played in a loop in campaign ads all through 2020. The scripts will write themselves. As for finding a candidate to run against Moore, sure, they can have a primary in 2020 if they like. Or, if they want to change the rules up a bit they can send the state party chair out to find a drunken woman passed out in an alley next to some bar whose career as a barback never advanced to the level of bartender because she was constantly caught taking free samples of the owner’s wares. (Make it a woman to cut down on the odds of the Washington Post finding a #MeToo story a few weeks before the general election.) They could wake this sot up and ask her five questions:
1. Is your surname name Moore or anything which sounds vaguely like Moore?
2. Are you a resident of Alabama?
3. Are you more 30 years of age or older?
4. Are you a Republican?
5. Have you ever been convicted of a felony or been involved in any sort of sexual assault or harassment?If the drunk can somehow manage to honestly answer those questions with, “No. Yes. Yes. Yes. No” and have those answers stand up to vetting, then she will beat Doug Jones by 15 points in his reelection bid. Twenty points if she looks halfway decent in a freshly dry cleaned pants suit after a trip to see a stylist.
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