I think the white, tRump, Bannon, Moore supporting contingent could not have cared less about his little hog leg and cowboy outfit. They wouldn't have cared if he'd shown up in a tutu brandishing a rubber band gun so long as he was rethuglican.

Actually, in truth, every little thing matters, they all add up.

Did that one word account for the margin of victory? Not likely, but then again, who knows?

What is true is that the prevailing narrative matters and we do need to pay attention to word choice and image management.

I reacted like that because I watched the vid with Barkley's stern warning to the Democratic party! This article undermines his message.

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voter supression. They throw e v e r y t h i n g at democrats come election time and make up 'realities'. We need to be running on all cylanders too. Remember how many ways Hillary lost the election? Was it 15 or 20 ways? Other than outright lying, which is not our way.

which I think is brilliant--but that he "destroyed Roy Moore's whole shtick" with it. Pointing out this uber-smart use of rhetoric does not imply anything about the hard work and the immense turnout of black voters, especially black women, which is of course what *won the election.*

I think attacking a fellow DUer over pointing out something valuable in fighting the RW is rotten.

"Prancing around a stage in a cowboy suit!!!!"

Another damaging verb, I've found, is "flouncing." As in Roy Moore refused to concede and flounced off the stage to commune with God.

And I felt confident the Jones campaign would be able to pull off the victory.

It was amazingly clever. It took the Republican/Rovian strategy of attacking the opponent's strength.

We should have used this same strategy against Trump in the 2016 general election.

Democrats need to be hitting back (verbally, of course) on Republicans. This was a good comment for sure.

Election was way to close for much confidence in future elections. How many thousands? of votes weren't even counted in final tally and why? How many people are excluded from voting and why. (criminal record)

I don't understand why a state like Alabama is usually 60%R votes and only 40%D votes in most elections.

Before Nixon and Reagan, it was the George Wallace crowd and conservative Southern Democrats constantly pushing it. Everything bad in the world is caused by someone other than the conservative crooks that have been running the show for decades. That someone is usually liberal Democrats, people of color, Washington outsiders, etc..Remember the quote from LBJ?

2016
Republican Donald Trump 1,318,255 62.1%
Democratic Hillary Clinton 729,547 34.4%

According the Alabama Secretary of State website, voter turnout was 63.83% with 2,127,564

Democratic Doug Jones 671,151 49.9% +49.9%
Republican Roy Moore 650,436 48.4% -48.6%

Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore by a margin of 20,715 votes. Voter turnout was 40.46% of Alabama's 3,326,812[417] registered voters.

Jones won primarily by running up huge margins in the state's major cities. The state's four largest counties–Jefferson (home to Birmingham), Mobile (home to Mobile), Montgomery (home to the state capital of Montgomery) and Madison (home to Huntsville)–all gave Jones 56 percent or more of the vote. His margins in Jefferson or Montgomery alone would have been more than enough to give him the victory. Jones also dominated the Black Belt. He took over 96 percent of the black vote, and 61 percent of votes from those under 45. While Moore dominated the state's rural areas, he significantly underperformed Trump's totals in those areas, as well as the suburbs.[418]



stats off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Alabama,_2016

can see the propaganda on the polling lists- a couple R- polls consistently had Jones wayyy in the lead to encourage R turn out. Very similar to the way polls were for Hillary/Trump.

I think our candidates need to be more specific on what changes a D government can mean to a State. What R spending waste will be cut and moved to schools and infrastructure. Those two things are where Alabama R government has failed 'the people' for decades. I hope Jones can do something quick and significant for Alabama.

Yet, as tragic a figure as Trump is, I cannot find it in my heart to feel sorry for him. He is an odious, immoral, treasonous pig of a man who has nearly pulled apart everything that was once good about this nation. And it didn't start at Trump, but with Reagan. Or, perhaps even further back, to Lee Atwater and CREEP.

Statesmanship degenerated into a meaningless quest for mere reelection. Corporate corruption at the highest levels.

And Trump? He is the very embodiment of this darkness of the human soul.