To quote one of my favourite movies:
OH WHAT A DAY! WHAT A LOVELY DAY!
As sad as it is that it took a pro-slavery pedophile to make Alabama (narrowly) go blue, this is still really, really big. If we can flip an Alabama Senate seat, despite voter supression attempts, then 2018 is looking pretty hopeful indeed. This result is proof that however dark things seem, there is always hope for a better future.
And (got this from Robert Reich on Facebook) Senate Democrats are apparently already calling for the final vote on the tax bill (now that they've reconciled the House and Senate versions) to be delayed until Jones can be seated, so that Alabama will have full representation.
That its Sessions' old seat is just the cherry on top.
Civil War Man wrote: ↑2017-12-13 09:06am
Elheru Aran wrote: ↑2017-12-12 10:46pm
TimothyC wrote: ↑2017-12-12 10:44pm
Thank you God he lost.
Barely. Less than 1%. No way Moore won't ask for a recount.
Last count I saw was that it was up to about 1.5%. Alabama doesn't do automatic recounts unless the margin is less than 0.5%, so it's likely that if Moore wants a recount he will have to pay for it out of pocket.
Though before we pat Alabama on the back too hard, we should keep in mind that it was less the state rejecting a racist anti-Semitic child molester and more Black Alabamans dragging the rest of the state kicking and screaming in the direction of sanity. Black voters were heavily mobilized, and voted for Jones by similar margins that they did for Obama. White voters had much lower turnout, but most of those who did vote voted for Moore, even white women, which unfortunately matches up with how most white women who voted in 2016 voted for Donald "Grab 'Em By the Pussy" Trump.
White Southerners are overwhelmingly racist/misogynist. News at eleven.
Still, between the black vote, the youth vote, and the smaller number of sane older white folks... it was enough. This time, at least, it was enough.
Heh, I almost hope that Roy Moore pays for a recount out of his own pocket, and gets humiliated at his own expense.
"I know its easy to be defeatist here because nothing has seemingly reigned Trump in so far. But I will say this: every asshole succeeds until finally, they don't. Again, 18 months before he resigned, Nixon had a sky-high approval rating of 67%. Harvey Weinstein was winning Oscars until one day, he definitely wasn't."-John Oliver
"The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan."-General Von Clauswitz, describing my opinion of Bernie or Busters and third partiers in a nutshell.
I SUPPORT A NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE TO REMOVE TRUMP FROM OFFICE.