Jones Wins In Alabama

[Shabibilicious]

Trump has now gone 0 for 2 in deep red Alabama.  He makes Jeff Sessions his Attorney General and then publicly berates his choice when Sessions decides to uphold the law rather than Trump's will.....He then backs Luther Strange and looses.....He then goes all in for suspected Pedophile, Roy Moore and looses.....all the while doing Steve Bannon's bidding and alienating American voters.  It's an amazing feat to turn the state of Alabama blue and yet Trump did it.  I'm sure he'll say it was his plan all along.  Keep tweeting Donald.....perhaps you'll set the table for the 2018 midterms, if you haven't already.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrat-doug-jones-beats-roy-moore-claim-deep-red-alabama-senate-seat-032527507.html

 

GO RV, then BV

Edited December 13, 2017 by Shabibilicious

[coorslite21]

The people of Alabama spoke......not sure if it was really an anti Trump vote.........just too many questions on Moore......

 

the seat is up again in 2020.......any bets on if it goes Red/Blue???

[Shabibilicious]

8 minutes ago, coorslite21 said:

The people of Alabama spoke......not sure if it was really an anti Trump vote.........just too many questions on Moore......

 

the seat is up again in 2020.......any bets on if it goes Red/Blue???

 

If I were a betting man, I would say Bama goes back to Red in a big way in 2020.

 

GO RV, then BV

[umbertino]

Alabama election: Democrats triumph over Roy Moore in major blow to Trump

 

Doug Jones becomes first Democrat to win any statewide office in Alabama in decades after Moore’s campaign for Senate marred by sexual assault claims

 

Ben Jacobs in Montgomery and David Smith in Birmingham, Alabama

Wednesday 13 December 2017 13.35 GMT

 

 

Doug Jones waves to supporters after the results were announced.

Photograph: John Bazemore/AP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 vids  & graphs in link

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/12/roy-moore-loses-alabama-senate-race-doug-jones-wins

 

 

[umbertino]

'Suck it, Bannon': former Trump strategist has bad night in Alabama

 

Hardline nationalist faces fierce backlash from Republicans after getting heavily involved in Roy Moore campaign

 

David Smith in Birmingham, Alabama

Wednesday 13 December 2017 11.58 GMT

 

 

Steve Bannon speaks at a campaign rally for Roy Moore on Monday

Photograph: Brynn Anderson/AP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/13/suck-it-steve-bannon-trump-strategist-bad-night-alabama

[Shabibilicious]

There you have it folks.......Donald, at the behest of his leader Bannon, knowingly backed a loser in Roy Moore and therefore, subsequently played his base and Alabamians for fools.     Art of the Deal.....admit to nothing.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-distances-roy-moore-upset-133703989.html

 

GO RV, then BV    

Edited December 13, 2017 by Shabibilicious

[bostonangler]

1 hour ago, umbertino said:

Bannon': former Trump strategist has bad night in Alabama

 

Looks like he has a bad night at the bar every time I see him... 

 

B/A

[yota691]

BAD NEWS FOR DOUG JONES AS WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BALLOT BOX IN AL'S BIGGEST COUNTY IS REVEALED!

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Thanks Master Yota for bringing us a dose of reality. When I read the news that Roy Moore at supposedly lost the election I knew right then what  happened. The insane immoral and Lawless liberal-left will push too far when they mess with the South. That kind of stuff, when it becomes known what really happened could easily lead to complete civil unrest. But then that is what the left has been trying to do for the last year.

[umbertino]

Roy Moore issues fiery video refusing to concede: 'Immorality sweeps over our land'

 

In a statement, the Alabama judge railed against a litany of issues, including ‘abortion, sodomy and materialism’, before wishing viewers a ‘Merry Christmas’

 

Amanda Holpuch in New York

Thursday 14 December 2017 14.16 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vid in link

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/14/roy-moore-issues-fiery-video-refusing-to-concede-immorality-sweeps-over-our-land

[umbertino]

Doug Jones’s victory over Roy Moore could mean a dramatic shift in Congress

 

Democrats now have a plausible path to a House majority in 2018, while Republican control of the Senate rests precariously on the narrowest seat margin

 

Lauren Gambino in Washington

Wednesday 13 December 2017 22.45 GMT

 

 

 

Supporters celebrate as US Senate candidate Doug Jones is declared the winner at his watch party in Birmingham, Alabama Tuesday

Photograph: Albert Cesare/Advertiser/ddp USA/Barcroft Images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/13/doug-joness-victory-over-roy-moore-could-mean-a-dramatic-shift-in-congress

[Karsten]

 

[Karsten]

Whoops....that isn't gonna fair well.

 

http://conservativestamp.com/uncategorized/update-alabama-election-officials-found-5329-dead-folks-voted-jones/

 

Karsten

[DinarDavo]

32 minutes ago, Karsten said:

Whoops....that isn't gonna fair well.

 

To be fair we need to wait for further diagnosis.....are these voters truely physically dead or just typical brain-dead democrats?   

[MyLadiesDaddy]

17 minutes ago, DinarDavo said:

 

To be fair we need to wait for further diagnosis.....are these voters truely physically dead or just typical brain-dead democrats?   

You mean there's a difference 

[yota691]

How Doug Jones lost in nearly every congressional district but still won the state

 

 

 

 

By Christopher Ingraham December 13 at 2:55 PM 

 

Preliminary Alabama election numbers crunched by J. Miles Coleman of Decision Desk HQ reveal something astonishing: Democrat Doug Jones lost in six of Alabama's seven congressional districts, but he still managed to beat Roy Moore by 1.5 percentage points in the entire state.

Voters in Alabama's 7th Congressional District opted for Jones by a whopping 78 percent to 21 percent margin, the most lopsided result in the state. But Jones lost everywhere else, usually by just a few percentage points.

The simple explanation for this is that nearly two thirds of voters the seventh district are African American, a group that overwhelmingly supported Jones in his contest with Roy Moore.

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The 7th District is in fact home to nearly one-third of the state's entire black population. Having so many black voters in the 7th District means there are fewer black voters everywhere else.

 

There's no such skew in the distribution of white voters across the state's districts: White voters are distributed evenly pretty much everywhere, with the exception of the 7th District.

This is no accident: The state's Republican lawmakers drew the district boundaries following the 2010 Census, as required by the Constitution. Let's take a look at those district boundaries, overlaid on a map of the black population at the Census block group level. Pay particular attention to the borders of the 7th District.

 

The 7th District encompasses most of the western portion of Alabama's “black belt,” a region of the state with a historically large black population. But it also has a number of conspicuous appendages that poke into neighboring areas: One snakes down into the 1st District, picking up a large chunk of the black population around Monroeville. Another extends into the predominantly African American neighborhoods in west Montgomery.

Most striking is the narrow arm that runs through Tuscaloosa straight through the heart of Birmingham, picking up many of the majority-black neighborhoods in those cities along the way. The net effect is to remove a large number of black voters that might otherwise have been part of the 4th and 6th Districts.

The population of black voters in the eastern portion of the state, meanwhile, is split neatly in two by the border between the 2nd and 3rd Districts.

All told, the district boundaries ensure that while black voters have a sizable majority in district 7, their power is diluted everywhere else in the state. There's a word for this: gerrymandering. It refers to the process of drawing district boundaries in a way that makes it easier for you to win elections.

Earlier this year a federal court ruled Alabama Republicans had improperly gerrymandered districts for the state legislature, packing black voters into a small number of districts to dilute their power elsewhere.

The legislative boundaries for Alabama's U.S. House districts weren't part of that lawsuit, but the lopsidedness of the distribution of black voters across those districts is strikingly similar.

Part of this may be due to the Voting Rights Act, which makes the drawing of districts in this fashion permissible and even required in many cases. To ensure minority voters had at least some representation in Congress, the act required the creation of some majority-minority districts.

But as Wonkblog detailed earlier this year, “majority-minority districts, by concentrating the minority vote in certain districts, have the unintended consequence of diluting their influence elsewhere.” In recent years Republicans in a number of states have taken advantage of this, drawing favorable electoral maps in the ostensible interest of minority representation.

The Supreme Court has shown renewed interest in gerrymandering cases this term, taking up lawsuits against Democrat-drawn districts in Maryland and Republican-drawn districts in Wisconsin. The outcome of those cases could severely limit the ability of lawmakers to gerrymander their way into power.

Regardless, experts who study gerrymandering say it will continue to be a problem as long as partisan lawmakers are able to draw their own districts, rather than letting independent commissions (or even computer programs) do the work.

In 42 states, including Alabama, politicians are in charge of redrawing legislative districts.

[umbertino]

 

For the Republicans to hold on to what they have, the party will need to cool some of its more inflammatory rhetoric in the coming months

 

 

Thursday 14 December 2017 17.38 GMT

By  Lloyd Green

 

 

 

Roy Moore announced that he would be pursuing a recount of election results

Photograph: Albert Cesare/Advertiser/ddp USA/Barcroft Images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/14/after-alabama-republicans-need-to-choose-reason-over-rage

[adhoc10]

I think a significant portion of the public has used up their rage quota during 2017. After awhile, you just can't stay angry about everything all of the time. A clearer picture of reality is possible and presents the perfect opportunity for a reintroduction of civil discourse and seeing beyond the flames of inflammatory rhetoric.  I guess we'll see how that works out....

[bostonangler]

8 minutes ago, adhoc10 said:

I think a significant portion of the public has used up their rage quota during 2017. After awhile, you just can't stay angry about everything all of the time. A clearer picture of reality is possible and presents the perfect opportunity for a reintroduction of civil discourse and seeing beyond the flames of inflammatory rhetoric.  I guess we'll see how that works out....

 

Well said.

 

B/A

[Shabibilicious]

Alex Jones is laughing all the way to the bank.  

 

GO RV, then BV 

[Shabibilicious]

John Rogers Easily Dismantles Conspiracy Theory

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wing-conspiracy-theory-alabama-election-083039096.html

 

GO RV, then BV

 

 

[umbertino]

The days of rightwing evangelicals swaying politics are numbered

 

Once deemed the Moral Majority, white evangelicals are increasingly looking like they will be an immoral minority in the landscape of American politics

 

 

Friday 15 December 2017 11.00 GMT

By  Daniel Jose Camacho

 

 

 

‘The religious political playbook in the United States is changing.’

Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/15/rightwing-evangelicals-politics-roy-moore

[Karsten]

http://conservativestamp.com/usanews/breaking-alabama-military-absentee-ballots-just-came-ruined-democrats-day/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

 

Military Absentee Ballot arrive, Illegals driving from Polling station and Polling Station voting numerous time, people bused in from out side of Alabama......DNC winning by Hook or Crook.

 

Karsten

[Shabibilicious]

5 minutes ago, Karsten said:

http://conservativestamp.com/usanews/breaking-alabama-military-absentee-ballots-just-came-ruined-democrats-day/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

 

Military Absentee Ballot arrive, Illegals driving from Polling station and Polling Station voting numerous time, people bused in from out side of Alabama......DNC winning by Hook or Crook.

 

Karsten

 

Moore should just relax.....enjoy his 2nd place finish (better than 3rd place) and take some time to reflect on how flawed a Republican has to be to lose to a Democrat in Alabama.

 

GO RV, then BV  

[patrickgold]

41 minutes ago, Karsten said:

http://conservativestamp.com/usanews/breaking-alabama-military-absentee-ballots-just-came-ruined-democrats-day/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

 

Military Absentee Ballot arrive, Illegals driving from Polling station and Polling Station voting numerous time, people bused in from out side of Alabama......DNC winning by Hook or Crook.

 

Karsten

This should not even surprise us one bit. Truth be told in the previous election when the fraud was exposed then. 

Moore will not let the media's misleading stories rest.  He has every right to question the count of voters.  

By Yota's article it makes you wonder how Jones won.