No More Moore (About Last Night)
Alabama Slammed Him
First some quick numbers from the WaPo:
- Jones won women by 16 points.
- Jones won African Americans by 92 points.
- Jones won independents or “something else” by 8 points.
- Moore won white women by 29 points.
- Moore won whites with no college degree by 55 points.
- Moore won voters who approve of Trump by 80 points.
Jones is the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Alabama in 20 years, the last one being Howell T. Heflin (who was an old skool conservative Democrat, and would be a Republican today).
Note: Once again, women of color have rescued our asses. I hope someone at the DNC has spotted this.
Technically, Jones has not yet won the election: Roy Moore has yet to concede:
“You know, part of the thing — part of the problem with this campaign is we’ve been painted in an unfavorable and unfaithful light,” Moore told his supporters. “We’ve been put in a hole, if you will.”
Moore said it reminded him of a passage in Psalms 40: