Tag Archives: Roy Moore

Is this graphic really all we need to know about American or Alabama politics?

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Like many of you, I initially despaired when reading exit poll results from the Alabama senate election. It seemed unbelievable that over 63% of white women would vote for a man who was credibly accused of molesting young girls. My first reaction was, “we won this by a hair-breadth, but we have a lot of work to do”. Then I realized that this not the whole story: A very interesting piece of data from Alabama exit polls: While White women overall voted for Moore 63 to 34, when you break out evangelical vs non you get evangelical white women 76 … Continue reading →

12/12 Trump Cyberbullies Again, GOP Plays Ping Pong with Tax Plan, Special Election for Senate in AL –Update: Winner is Doug Jones

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Greetings Birdies! Today has been full of vitriolic commentary and game playing. As reported earlier today, Fats the Dummy Trump could not ignore a NY senator’s criticism about him (or a public demand to resign) and decided to re-enter the bull fighting arena, twitter. From NYT: President Trump aggressively returned to the issue of sexual harassment on Tuesday, again dismissing his own accusers as fabricators and attacking a female Democratic senator as a “lightweight” who “would do anything” for campaign contributions. The president’s attacks came in early morning Twitter posts after three of the accusers had come forward on Monday … Continue reading →

Roy Moore’s small hometown knew something the rest of us didn’t, in 2012.

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In 2012, Bob Vance came within four points of beating Roy Moore in a state-wide race for an Alabama Supreme Court seat. Democrats didn’t run against four of the other judges on the ballot, but they did run against Roy Moore. Because he was considered beatable. In an interview with POLITICO, Vance described how he almost toppled Moore five years ago: by combining strong turnout from African-Americans energized by President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign with aggressive outreach to what he called “reasonable conservatives” put off by Moore’s hard-line politics — outreach that was unusually successful in Alabama’s most-educated suburbs, according … Continue reading →

CHIP & Alabama & turnout

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A good, but infuriating, piece by David Dayen. I hope that Democrats get their acts together enough to do something about CHIP. Obviously Republicans will be difficult to impossible to negotiate with, but Democrats have to try. Really try. For This Congress, Children Come Last As lawmakers prepare to pass massive tax cuts for the wealthy, nearly 20 million poor Americans are needlessly at risk of losing their health insurance. In five states (Arizona, California, Minnesota, Ohio, and Oregon) and the District of Columbia, what funding remained for CHIP will run out by the end of December. Federal officials found … Continue reading →

Doug Jones can win, but it requires reversing two decades of party decline in 4 weeks.

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The polls are close, and Doug Jones has a real chance to win the Senate seat in Alabama. Most pollsters have the race tied or leaning towards Jones. Which means it’s now a turnout game. Here’s the problem though. The Democratic party in Alabama is so weak, it doesn’t even know who to turn out. The senate campaign is trying to reverse decades of entropy within four weeks. In recent decades, the state Democratic Party has been known more for its dysfunction than for decisive victories, with the party’s influence now mostly limited to some local governments, including mayor’s offices … Continue reading →

11/16 Give Us #MeToo (much) Dirty Laundry

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The past 10 days have been a #MeToo bonanza for the corporate media. We have heard the constant drum beat by the media, exacerbated by GOS and a few other select blogs about Senate candidate Roy Moore’s predatory behavior toward under aged teenage girls while he was a DA.   Seems a lot of women have stepped up to make similar claims.   And defense attorney Gloria Alred is at the forefront to represent those who chose to talk to the media. Doesn’t take more than a stone’s throw to remind anyone of someone’s pussygate revealed 13 months ago.   Women marched the … Continue reading →