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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:22PM (1 child)
Careful with those generalisations, more than half of these voters let the religion aside.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @11:29PM
Those would largely be the folks who aren't descended from slaveholders, in particular, those whose ancestors were enslaved.
...and that bunch recently got a law pushed through in Alabama which says that folks who have served their prison time are no longer disenfranchised for life.
Ex-convicts added a lot of votes to the other side of the ledger this time.
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