22,000 Write-Ins in the Jones/Moore race. This was a HUGE factor. People left Moore.

[LBM20]

HUGE credit to Jones and his and his team's GOTV effort, AA turnout, Dem turnout, Indies who voted for Jones, young voters, and even some R crossovers. But we must also recognize that this was mainly about Moore and his scandal. Many people who voted for Jones were voting AGAINST Moore, and if it had been a more normal Republican candidate, the R's would have won hands down in this very red state. Alabamans have pride, and Moore was just too toxic. Too much of an embarrassment even for them. Pretty SAD he still nearly won. And a major reason Jones won was that people left Moore (but didn't go to Jones either). So they did a write-in.

So one big takeaway for Alabama is they have said (though barely) that candidates with this kind of sexual perversion scandal can not be in office. And that is a good thing.

[underpants]

1. As we've seen elsewhere the Repubs nominated from a bubble

Like with THE COOCH in Virginia (they changed the rule to caucus not primary) 4 years ago they nominated Moore instead the safe smart bet of Strange.

[malaise]

2. Sorry NO!

Explain the trend - Virginia and now Alabama.

[sarah FAILIN]

3. There was also a Libertarian write in campaign

So not all that was republican votes. There were 2 different republican write in campaigns and I'm told Nick Saban got a lot of write in votes. They did save us though.

[beachbum bob]

4. republican turn out was lower too, another huge "win" for democrats

conservatives have little to proud of or look forward to.

[Freddie]

5. A lot of write-ins

Couldn't vote for Jones because of abortion but they couldn't vote for Moore either. So Jones won. Sound familiar, 3rd party voters?