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posted by martyb on Wednesday December 13 2017, @08:06PM   Printer-friendly
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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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:44PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:44PM (#609452)

    That was democrats.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:51PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:51PM (#609455) Journal

    Which party do they reside in today? Republican.

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    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday December 14 2017, @07:25PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Thursday December 14 2017, @07:25PM (#609825)

      Yup: Those that use the fact that southern Democrats were racist as all get out between 1870 and 1964 to excuse the racism currently entrenched in the Republican Party are carefully blind to everything that's happened in the last 50 years.

      Specifically, in 1964, Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and said to an aide "We've just lost the south for a generation". Because he knew that the racists were going to leave the Democratic Party over this permanently (they had left in 1948 over Harry Truman's anti-racism efforts, backing Strohm Thurmond). Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy" was to welcome those racists into the Republican fold with open arms, and they've been there ever since.

      I'll believe the Democrats are the party of racism again when I hear their candidates openly longing for a return to slavery, when the KKK and Neo-Nazis are singing the praises of Democratic leaders to anyone who will listen, and when racist pundits are able to get plum jobs in a Democratic White House. All of which currently applies to the Republicans.

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  • (Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Thursday December 14 2017, @04:28AM

    by el_oscuro (1711) on Thursday December 14 2017, @04:28AM (#609585)

    Did you know that Doug Jones was the U.S. Attorney for northern Alabama and prosecuted Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry, 2 of the KKK jackasses that bombed that church in 1963?

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