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Alabama Special Election (Roy Moore diddles, GOP thumbs up, Mr. Jones goes to Washington) Alabama Special Election (Roy Moore diddles, GOP thumbs up, Mr. Jones goes to Washington)

12-13-2017 , 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by batair
12-13-2017 , 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Costanza
Moore's base doesn't stay home. That's why he beat Luther Strange in the Republican primary.
If you believe some of the “experts” this is the end of the old Republican Party and the convoy who elected trump is taking over the party and Moore is a classic example a guy they will never support.
12-13-2017 , 12:53 AM
LOL FROTHY
12-13-2017 , 12:54 AM
dem won bama
12-13-2017 , 12:56 AM
12-13-2017 , 12:57 AM
So anyway, I am not really clear on some things right now. Is Strange serving right now? Is he not unseated until, when? Now? When the election is certified? The moment Jones is sworn in?
12-13-2017 , 12:59 AM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
So anyway, I am not really clear on some things right now. Is Strange serving right now? Is he not unseated until, when? Now? When the election is certified? The moment Jones is sworn in?
Yes. Won’t be certified till at least the 26th. When McConnell says so - sometime in January.
12-13-2017 , 12:59 AM
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Originally Posted by DWetzel


2014 was Jeff Sessions running unopposed for Senate
This is what I'm not sure all the "congrats for not electing a pedophile/xenophobe/homophobe" get. Democrats just won a senate seat in a state where they didn't even bother to put up a candidate in 2014.

And a lot of the write-in's came from Richard Shelby. He was re-elected as a Democrat in 1992, then switched parties to Republican in 1994. A lot of those 22,000 write-ins came from Shelby saying he was going to vote Republican, but write in a vote for someone else instead of voting for Moore.

I already thought Walt Maddox had a decent chance to win the race for Governor in the next election. I'm now hoping this will start something even bigger.

I'm also still in shock, and it might be the whiskey talking.
12-13-2017 , 01:00 AM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
So anyway, I am not really clear on some things right now. Is Strange serving right now? Is he not unseated until, when? Now? When the election is certified? The moment Jones is sworn in?
Whenever McConnell decides to seat him. He's already said it won't be this year.
12-13-2017 , 01:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
Can we just let black women run the country for a decade or two and see how it turns out?
Not working out so well for the post office.
12-13-2017 , 01:01 AM
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Originally Posted by JPantz
Yes. Won’t be certified till at least the 26th. When McConnell says so - sometime in January.
I don't think you understood my question. Let me try phrasing it this way: is there a time when the Republicans have 51 votes in the Senate and the Democrats have 48, or does Strange serve until the moment Jones is sworn in?
12-13-2017 , 01:02 AM
Or, as was just quoted again on CNN: Alabama hadn't elected a Democrat in 25 years. The last one was Richard Shelby, and he switched parties after he was elected.
12-13-2017 , 01:02 AM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
So anyway, I am not really clear on some things right now. Is Strange serving right now? Is he not unseated until, when? Now? When the election is certified? The moment Jones is sworn in?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12/politi...-join-congress
12-13-2017 , 01:02 AM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
I don't think you understood my question. Let me try phrasing it this way: is there a time when the Republicans have 51 votes in the Senate and the Democrats have 48, or does Strange serve until the moment Jones is sworn in?
Maybe
12-13-2017 , 01:04 AM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
I don't think you understood my question. Let me try phrasing it this way: is there a time when the Republicans have 51 votes in the Senate and the Democrats have 48, or does Strange serve until the moment Jones is sworn in?
Strange continues to serve.
12-13-2017 , 01:04 AM
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Originally Posted by m_reed05
Strange continues to serve.
OK, thanks.
12-13-2017 , 01:04 AM


This is an absurd stat on both sides. Kudos to the NYT needle for picking up turnout trends way before they were obvious
12-13-2017 , 01:05 AM
It will be unreal to watch Bannon continue to be regarded as a mental jujitsu master Alpha Go of politics after he just lost a race in Ala-****ing-Bama. Dude needs to be cast into the dustbin of history. Loser. Sad.
12-13-2017 , 01:07 AM
In this recap from The Intercept they highlight the importance of the Roy Moore slavery comments - kinda wild that this was reported in September I think and no one really noticed until recently:

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Black activists in Alabama expected increased turnout in the Senate special election, in part due to those remarks. And they got it: Late Tuesday night, the Associated Press called the race for Jones, who won largely on the strength of black turnout.
And I hadn't heard this story before about Roy Moore meeting his wife, who he apparently first saw as a 16 year old (!!!) in a ballet recital which is a totally normal place for a single dude in his late 20s/early 30s to be:

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When asked how he met his wife, he described seeing her perform at a ballet recital as a young girl. With no children of his own with him, Moore stood at the back of the auditorium and watched the girls dance, he said.

“When I was deputy district attorney, many years before we got married, I saw her at a dance recital. I was standing in the back of the auditorium and I saw her up front, and I remembered her name, Kayla Kaiser — K.K. — I remembered that. I didn’t meet her, I left, and it was, gosh, eight years later, I met her.”

Moore told her he thought he knew her. “She thought I was coming on and making it up, then I told her, and she identified the dance,” he said.

When they eventually married, she was 24.
12-13-2017 , 01:07 AM
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Originally Posted by 6MaxLHE
Not working out so well for the post office.
Um, Megan Brennan isn't black and the USPS is doing fine?
12-13-2017 , 01:07 AM
so uh, how in the world were there Jones +10 and Moore +9 polls?
12-13-2017 , 01:08 AM
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Originally Posted by zikzak
Um, Megan Brennan isn't black and the USPS is doing fine?
If by losing billions every year for the last 12 years, yes they are doing quite well.
12-13-2017 , 01:10 AM


12-13-2017 , 01:10 AM
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Originally Posted by batair
Buddy Guy still got it after all these years.
12-13-2017 , 01:10 AM
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Originally Posted by 6MaxLHE
If by losing billions every year for the last 12 years, yes they are doing quite well.
Yeah man - and while we're at it make that damn military start paying for itself. What good does the USPS do us anyway?

      
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