Yesterday Alabama stood on the side of Country before party. Some think the party and straight ticket voting is the only answer, regardless of allegations. Truth is this is the core problem and bad politicians get elected this way. The party will cover up crimes hinder investigations and deny deny deny before admitting the party members guilt.
Alabama needs a two party system currently the single party leadership has been a total failure, for years. Both parties need to be held accountable and candidates elected on credentials. A candidate should be carefully vetted, his or her views will affect us all. If it means crossing party lines so be it, your moral compass should come first.
In a survey conducted during the Senate race, 66% of women with kids under 18 voted for Doug Jones, they were not all Democrats, they were all women and mothers.
This election has identified what can be called the Moore Factor, notice I did not say Trump Factor, however they are similar. The Moore Factor is saying something patiently false and passing it off as the truth, regardless of evidence that says other wise. Mr Moore railed about the Constitution and his ability to uphold โThe rule of lawโ. The factual truth is he is the worst example of the rule of law. He violated his oath of office, judiciary, twice, was found guilty of Ethics charges and thrown of the bench for breaking the law.
The Moore Factor represents people that are not interested in fact as much as they are their personal and most often religious beliefs. In Alabama this is as much as 48% of those voting. The answer lies with the Moore Factorโs children. They will slowly erode the 48% and the good ole boys are going to find it harder to hang on to power by selling straight ticket voting.
The Republican party escaped being hit by a tsunami of embarrassing ethics investigations and the process of seating Roy Moore in the Senate. The mid term elections would have become a political battle field leaving many a republicans mortally wounded. Roy Moore did the republicans a favor in losing and many a republican was on his knees praying for that defeat.
โWITH MOOREโS LOSS WE ARE ALL WINNERSโ
You and J.D. Crowe took down Roy Moore. Fairhope had to have voted for Jones. He had signs everywhere.
Doug Jones was the best choice for Alabama in my opinion.
Senator Shelby and Sandy Sessions (among many other Republican leaders) have worked so hard to make Alabama an attractive community for businesses/families to relocate to. Roy Moore was the worst candidate ever to run for Senate and would have alienated the rest of the world from our state if he had won. Even on this website, it was clear that Moore’s supporters were a bit backward both in education and social skills.
Moore only won votes of the older and uneducated. We must move forward; we need the young and educated to move here and locate their businesses and families.
Alabama is moving forward finally! Congrats to Doug Jones and to President Trump for admitting this and congratulating Senator Jones!
Your vote was hijacked by Jeff Bezos his money his fake mews with the 40 year old fabricated stories.
Moore was a horrible candidate but Jonesโs position on the issues was more immoral and are FACTS. AMERICA will be subjected to his liberal votes
One thing BEZOS was right about ALABAMIANS are RUBES!!!
Thatโs a fact
Typical silly and cowardly response from a cowardly anonymous poster!
Jesus was a socialist.
I am interested in how each of our council men voted in the senate race. I bet it would tell us a LOT.
Just our of curiosity, would you expect that any of them would have voted against Moore? From my viewpoint, 90% of men in Fairhope and Point Clear would prefer to return to the days of slavery that Moore pines for.
I know positively that not all of the council voted for Moore or Trump
Great to hear that. Perhaps there are still one or two open minds in Fairhope!
Ripp watch your back.
Catalyst has a plan.
Fairhope voted for moore. Big time. 65 percent. Sad.