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Democrat Doug Jones won a remarkable upset victory over controversial rival Roy Moore in the diehard Republican state of Alabama on Tuesday to win election to the US Senate.
By a margin of 49.5 to 48.9 with 91% of precincts reporting, Jones dealt a major blow to Donald Trump and his efforts to pass tax reform on Capitol Hill. Jones was able to become the first Democrat in a decade to win any statewide office in Alabama by beating Moore, who had faced multiple allegations of sexual assault during a campaign which exposed Republican party faultlines.
The Democratic victory will reduce the Republican majority in the Senate to 51-49 once Jones takes his seat on Capitol Hill. This significantly reduces the margin for error as Republicans attempt to push through a major corporate tax cut.
takyon: The final count is:
Doug Jones - 671,151 votes (49.9%)
Roy Moore - 650,436 votes (48.4%)
Write-ins (total) - 22,819 votes (1.7%)
The margin for an automatic recount in Alabama is 0.5%. Roy Moore has yet to concede.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Wednesday December 13 2017, @08:22PM (11 children)
Anything can be reframed:
In a state where Democrats lose routinely by wide margins and never hope to win major elections, Republicans managed to gloriously screw things up.
The 7 most inflammatory things Roy Moore has said [politico.com]
Roy Moore's incredible 'even though we had slavery' quote [cnn.com]
As for the "pedophilia" (call it ephebophilia if you prefer):
Roy Moore on whether he dated teenage girls: “Not generally, no” [vox.com]
Genius.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by stretch611 on Wednesday December 13 2017, @08:44PM (1 child)
Also...
A state Trump won by nearly 30 percentage points. (The biggest republican stronghold in the country according to one news report I read.)
Had the support of Trump and most republicans despite the accusations.
In a state that allowed marriages to 16 year olds at the time of the accusations. (But not 14, which was the age of one accuser.)
And the biggest issue that Moore's campaign was pointing out was abortion in a deeply religious population.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 5, Informative) by NotSanguine on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:42PM
What's more, until yesterday, Alabama hadn't *elected* a Democratic candidate for the Senate [en.wikipedia.orgwiki] (Democrats hold one of six seats in the Alabama delegation to the House) in 27 years.
And a Democratic presidential candidate hasn't won in Alabama in over forty years [wikipedia.org].
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Wednesday December 13 2017, @08:46PM (7 children)
Moore specifically advocating getting rid of all constitutional amendments after the Bill of Rights. That would include:
- Ending slavery. I get the impression Mr Moore would be fine and dandy with slavery, and might be interested in buying a few pickaninnies for late-night visits to the slave quarters
- Applying the federal Bill of Rights to state law, and giving all people equal protection under the law. Mr Moore is clearly interested in not giving all people equal protection under the law, regardless of his time as judge.
- Giving black people the right to vote. He clearly would like to put a stop to this.
- Direct election of senators. If Moore had his way, he wouldn't have needed the approval of those pesky voters
- Giving women the right to vote. Because what could they know, get back in the kitchen woman!
- Ending of poll taxes. Again, more tools to keep the unqualified masses from voting.
- Ending the limit on 2 terms for a president. Trump uber alles!
- Making it impossible for an incapacitated but not dead president to be replaced, or for the VP to be replaced if that office end up vacant for some reason. Again, Trump uber alles!
- Giving people aged 18-21 the right to vote. Stupid kids, wanting a say in whether we draft them into the army and send them off to fight halfway around the world for no reason.
- Making it legal for Congress to vote themselves a raise whenever they want. Because if there's one thing our Congresscritters need, it's more money out of the public treasury!
Either he didn't know what he was saying, or he doesn't believe in democracy or in America. Based on his history, I'm thinking the latter is the case.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday December 13 2017, @08:50PM
Those stupid meddling kids voted for liberal Doug Jones! [washingtonpost.com]
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(Score: 1) by Sulla on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:09PM
This guy sure is a crackpot.
I don't like telling other states what to do, but this guy sure is a crackpot and hopefully they see that.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:19PM (4 children)
We need to send congress to live a year in Liberia.
They will either love it there and work even more fervently towards making America the White Liberia. Or they will finally understand what it is they have been working towards and consider a *SLIGHTLY* less conservative political stance.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:38PM (3 children)
...or to Trump's favorite country, Nambia. [google.com]
"I am very smart." --Donald J. Trump, Sr. [google.com]
"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had." --William T. Kelley, Trump's marketing professor at Wharton [alternet.org]
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:14AM (2 children)
That sounds exactly like the kind of shit a professor would say when one of his own students makes him look like a dumbass. Maybe Trump had too many street smarts to tolerate jargon and bullshit?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:39AM
Just keep rationalizing, no way your guy could be wrong
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:04AM
Yeah, what AC said. Remember, he's the damned court fool who ran against the evil witch. IMO, the court fool was the better choice, but not a hell of a lot better. Where Hillary would have sold the nation to any buyer, Trump is busy selling the nation to rich Americans. We're still sold down the river, but at least we know how to navigate our own river.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @12:01AM
Mark Foley is an ephebophile [slate.com]
That article was written in 2006, before Foley became a federal judge in Alabama.
He was boinking his court clerk while he was married to someone else.
He divorced the 1st wife and married the clerk.
He beat the 2nd wife (caught on a 9-1-1 call).
He resigned his judgeship when it became clear that he could be impeached.
Alabama grows some real gems.
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