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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: 1) by Sulla on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:00PM (2 children)
Dirty campaigns go all the way back to 1800 with Jefferson against Adams.
The website this links to is awful but an interesting read
http://mentalfloss.com/article/19668/election-1800-birth-negative-campaigning-us [mentalfloss.com]
Perhaps you should go back to Europe if you want to not deal with negative campaigns as they are part of the American experience whether you like them or not, only problem I guess is that Europe loves them too.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 5, Touché) by Thexalon on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:03PM (1 child)
They go back way further than that, as a Roman politician [wikipedia.org] like yourself should know.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Sulla on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:07PM
Hey now those proscriptions were perfectly valid and necessary to save the Republic
*Adds Thexalon to the list
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam