Who will win the Alabama Senate special election?

[acbytesla]

What a pleasure to be wrong! Looks like Jones!

Way too soon. Be careful of a recount.

 

[Foolmewunz]

Fox called it for Jones, too!



In Dixieland, where I was born
Early on one frosty morn'
Look Away, Look Away,
Look Away Dixieland


It took the citizens of the great state of Alabama to re-instill some sense of decency to the electoral process.

Watching Fox is a joy; I turned the sound back up.

 

[Foolmewunz]

Fox calls it for Jones. That's a little early isn't it?

No; it's like the famous meltdown they did when Obama took Ohio to win in 2012.... the remaining votes are all to be counted in strong moderate or even liberal districts. Jones was taking those counties 5:2 on overage.

 

[kellyb]

I want go hug a leftie in Alabama right now. OMG. Happy tears.

 

[William Parcher]

The ISF poll was way the hell off.

 

[NoahFence]

Looks like Alabama voters weren't quite so backward as a lot of people thought.

I wouldn't go that far

 

[portlandatheist]

YES!!!!!!!!!

 

[lobosrul5]

Dare I ask, are we past "peak" trump?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

NYT calls it for Jones

 

[C_Felix]

How many hours until Hannity is back on the air so I can listen to him cry?

 

[Stacko]

How many hours until Hannity is back on the air so I can listen to him cry?

I can't wait to see the twitter tanTrump.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

How many hours until Hannity is back on the air so I can listen to him cry?

Fffft, they'll be crying, alright, crying foul.


Hehehe.

 

[William Parcher]

I think anyone could say that half of the state is Republican and half is Democrat.

 

[MrFliop]

Have you guys ever been so glad you were wrong?

 

[LTC8K6]

I wouldn't go that far

A lot of folks here seemed to think Moore had this in the bag easily...

Clearly a lot of people in Alabama voted outside their box.

It looks like the Dems sacrificed Franken for nothing.

 

[Steve]

The ISF poll was way the hell off.

Skepticism is over-rated

 

[Foolmewunz]

Dare I ask, are we past "peak" trump?

Democrats are counting on us still being in "peak-trump-effect". They, of course, don't see it as a positive. Ed Gillespie chose to run as a Trump clone without using his name. Evidently people behaving like Trump don't get Trump votes. Moore had his direct support. Moore had Bannon's direct support. Moore lost them one of the safest seats in the Senate, the seat where no one would even run last time against Jefferson the Traitor Elf.

Donnie Johnny has lost twice in Alabama. He lost to Moore when he was backing Strange and blamed Strange. He then got behind Moore, long before this week; he said he backed him the night of the primary win! Now he lost again.

So, noooooooo, we don't want to be past-peak-Trump. We want him to get out there and hit the campaign trail early in 2018.

 

[Puppycow]

BTW, when does the winner have to stand for election again?

IIRC, 2020.

2018 i think

Stacko is right. We got this through the end of the Trump/Pence presidency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_special_election_in_Alabama,_2017

A special election for the United States Senate in Alabama is scheduled for December 12, 2017, to fill a vacancy in the Senate arising from the resignation on February 8, 2017, of Jeff Sessions, to serve as U.S. Attorney General. The winner of this election will fill the seat for the remainder of Sessions‘ term, due to end on January 3, 2021.

On February 9, 2017, Governor Robert J. Bentley named Luther Strange, the Attorney General of Alabama, to fill the vacancy until a special election takes place. Although he had the power to schedule an election in 2017, Bentley decided that a special election was to take place on November 6, 2018, the date of the 2018 general election.[1] However, on April 18, 2017, Bentley‘s successor, Kay Ivey, called the special election for December 12, 2017, scheduling the primary for August 15, 2017, and the primary runoff for September 26.[2]

There wouldn't have been a special until next year if the "Love Guv" hadn't resigned in the face of impeachment.

 

[Jerrymander]

Happy days are here again!

 

[foophil]

Wow, that was intense.