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Politics: Jones Wins Upset in Alabama Senate Race

posted by martyb on Wednesday December 13 2017, @08:06PM   
from the It's-Fake-News-until-the-Fat-Man-Sings dept.

Fluffeh writes:

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.

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• Roy Moore is NOT a Pedophile Roy Moore is NOT a Pedophile (Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:04PM (5 children)

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:04PM (#609378) Journal

  Roy Moore is not a pedophile. He is an Ephebophile [wikipedia.org]!

  Ephebophilia is the primary sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19. [14 is fine.]

  Roy Moore Met Wife Kayla When She Was a Minor, and He Was 30, at a Girls’ Dance Recital [newsweek.com]

  “Many years before, I had attended a dance recital at Gadsden State Junior College,” Moore wrote. “I remembered one of the special dances performed by a young woman whose first and last names began with the letter 'K.' It was something I had never forgotten. Could that young woman have been Kayla Kisor?”

  Of course, it would turn out that, yes, that was the future Mrs. Moore. In an interview earlier this year, as Moore was campaigning for the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, Moore provided further details, including the time, of that initial meeting.

  “I was standing at the back of the auditorium and I saw her at the front and I remember her name, it was Kayla Kisor, K.K,” he said. “It was, oh gosh, eight years later or something, I met her and when she told me her name I remembered K.K.”

  That eight-year timeframe would have meant that Moore was 29 and Kayla just 15 when they first met. However, Moore said that he was deputy district attorney at the time, a post he began a year later, in 1977.

  That was the same year in which Beverly Young Nelson, appearing at a press conference last week, accused Moore of trying to rape her when she was just 16. And it was that same year that then 18-year-old Gena Richardson was working at Gadsden Mall when Moore asked her out.

  A former police officer in Gadsden this week told The New York Times that it was common knowledge that Moore would talk to young girls. Several others who were in Gadsden at the time have shared similar stories of Moore regularly hanging out at the mall and chatting with minors.

  The allegations against Moore began two weeks ago with a report in The Washington Post that centered on accusations from Leigh Corfman that Moore had a sexual encounter with her in 1979, when he was 32 and she just 14.

  Get your facts straight. Roy Moore is an ephebophile. That's not illegal (neither is pedophilia, technically speaking).

  Smooth, no wrinkles, innocent. Aged to perfection. Gotta have a little Moore than a look before they spoil.

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• Big deal (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:23PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:23PM (#609394)

  He be dead in a month in a pent. Even the worst of criminals need to look down on someone, and that's pedophile.

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• Re:Roy Moore is NOT a Pedophile Re:Roy Moore is NOT a Pedophile (Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:40PM (1 child)

  by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:40PM (#609406)

  It's not illegal as long as there's no actual sexual contact, but dating usually does lead to that pretty quickly, so it's safe to assume that someone who expresses romantic interest in minors has that as their intention.

  It's definitely very creepy.

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  • Re:Roy Moore is NOT a Pedophile (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @03:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @03:21AM (#609568)

    Age of consent in alabama is 16 so maybe it was legal, you don't know?

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• Re:Roy Moore is NOT a Pedophile (Score: 2) by tizan on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:49PM

  by tizan (3245) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:49PM (#609411)

  Pedophilia is not illegal, it is a brain condition may be, unless you do something about it..
  Same thing with Ephebophilia ...the law is 16 in alabama...trying to kiss and touch a 14 year old is illegal by any definition, irrespective of the state of the brain of the person.

  Just like i envy a Lamborghini......not illegal....taking one from those rich buggers without their permission is illegal sadly.

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• Re:Roy Moore is NOT a Pedophile (Score: 5, Funny) by bob_super on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:53PM

  by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:53PM (#609413)

  Had her middle initial also been K, he would have married her on the spot?

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