Democrat Doug Jones’s stunning victory in Alabama on Tuesday should send a shiver down the spine of GOP elected officials everywhere. Yes, Jones likely would have lost the special election for a U.S. Senate seat had his Republican opponent, Roy Moore, not been an extremely flawed candidate. But Moore’s defeat is part of a larger […]
Micah Cohen 11:23 PM Jones Won That’s a wrap on our live blog, folks. Alabama is blue. Weird, huh? Jones gave a victory speech. But, the Moore campaign is apparently not conceding this race, hoping that when military, provisional and write-in ballots are counted, the vote will be within 0.5 percentage points, triggering an automatic […]
Follow our live coverage of Alabama’s special election for U.S. Senate. Alabama’s long and strange special election for U.S. Senate comes to a close on Tuesday. Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore face off in their bids to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the remainder of the term. Moore […]
The polls have varied significantly heading into Tuesday’s special Senate election in Alabama. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast team discusses why turnout is so difficult to predict and how different groups of voters could affect the outcome. The crew also assesses how Sen. Al Franken’s resignation has shaped the political conversation surrounding sexual misconduct allegations — […]
Follow our live coverage of Alabama’s special election for U.S. Senate. Somebody’s going to be wrong in Alabama. We’ve already urged caution when interpreting polls of Alabama’s special election to the U.S. Senate, which will be held on Tuesday. Some of that is because of the media’s usual tendency to demand certainty from the polls […]