Do you think sitting at home, while a racist, pedophile theocrat is on the ballot, somehow absolves them?

Not ideal, but certainly preferable.

It's a dumb argument to make.

Well stated.

With Roy Moore getting 650,436 of those.

The population of Alabama is 4.863 million and around 52 percent of them are female which would make around 2.53 million females with 75 percent of them being 18 or over, that would mean there are a little under 2 million women in Alabama. About 70 percent of them are white - so that would total 1.4 adult white women in Alabama.

You can do the math from there, but what is clear is that the vast majority of white women did not vote for Roy Moore.

Really the whole point is meaningless i.e. - could as easily state majority of black women did not vote for Jones either!

That kind of math happens with a less than 50% turnout of registered voters!

have voted in other elections, but since they had reason to believe he probably would be elected anyway, only a cool nod to them for their abstention.

But it's true. Women in general were an important part of the demographic coalition who said a big no to Roy Moore. Including those.

Blacks, women, suburban and younger voters, educated whites, and also those few Evangelicals who simply could not stomach Moore. I almost hate to quote the SOB, but in fact, yes, "a win is a win".

Roy Moore's base came out.

The Republican base rejected him!

As we know, nothing is ever quite good enough for some people - it always has to be perfect.

a distinction without a difference.


“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

Hillary won the popular vote of America.

At least Alabama actually adheres to democracy, unlike the USA.

is not really reassuring to me.

doesn't apply to Republicans.

Odd that you would bring it up here.

Though it's depressing that they didn't vote for his opponent either.

Who specifically is arguing that majority did not vote? Who specifically forgot?

I'm guessing those two unsupported assertions of yours will remain unsupported. But that's merely a guess...

or comparing it to past elections is meaningless, and in fact distorts what really happened.

Watch closely, because I am supplying a link:

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/turnout_exceeds_expectations_i.html

Turnout for elections in the U.S. has generally been dismal

Chances are white women, and white people as a whole, would have voted about the same as the other white people in the state. They just couldn't be bothered.

Voter turnout is always low, and that doesn't explain so many white people preferring a child molester to Doug Jones.

Did people expect white women to vote drastically differently than white men? What's up with blaming white women specifically?

I don't care about the stay at homers - just the sick twists that voted for a gross maggot that molests young teenagers.

Frankly, it's stupid even to give them recognition for their failure.

It's entirely possible that they would have voted for Moore, like the other idiot racist fuckheads who endorsed child rape.

It's also possible that they would have voted for Jones, in which case shame on them for sitting on their asses and allowing the race to be so close, when it should have been a landslide.

Or maybe they weren't going to vote at all, in which case to hell with them (in electoral terms).


A neutral (i.e., non-voting) position inherently favors the aggressor, and in this case the aggressor was the Republican candidate.

From being represented by a sexual predator.