Tuesday, 12 December 2017

Alabama’s women wrote the verdict on Roy Moore

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Women drew the line at Roy Moore.
There are many reasons why Moore became the first Republican nominee to lose an Alabama Senate race since 1992 on Tuesday night, including a strong turnout by African-American voters and a lack of enthusiasm among Moore's base.
But with Moore denying multiple allegations of inappropriate behavior with teenage girls, and attacking his accusers against the backdrop of a national reckoning on sexual misconduct, the most striking aspect of the vote may have the unmistakable message send by the women of Alabama about how much was too much.
Fifty-eight percent of Alabama women voted for the winner, Democrat Doug Jones, including 35 percent of white women, according to exit polling. While that latter figure might not sound like much, it’s more than twice the 16 percent of white Alabama women who voted for President Barack Obama in 2012, the last presidential race in which exit polling was conducted.
 What Doug Jones needed — and got — in Alabama 4:42
Outside a Montgomery polling place on Tuesday afternoon, Sandra Davis, a self-described independent, said she was tired of her state being the “laughingstock of the nation.”
“One reason,” she said, when asked why she voted for Jones: He’s “not Roy Moore.”
Related: Doug Jones is apparent winner in Alabama Senate race
To get to the point where women could put him over the top in one of the most conservative states in the country, Jones needed everything to go right. Just 13 months ago, Donald Trump took 62 percent of the vote in Alabama.
But every factor lined up in his favor. Moore was a uniquely flawed candidate. Many national Republican leaders — including Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby — abandoned him after the allegations of sexual misconduct arose. Democrats, as they have been in elections across the country since last November, were energized by the chance to strike a blow against President Donald Trump and his agenda.
A twice-deposed former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Moore defeated establishment favorite Sen. Luther Strange in a September primary run-off that badly divided the Republican Party both in this state and at the national level.
He became the latest focal point in a long-running war between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former White House strategist Steve Bannon, who has made a mission out of toppling sitting senators in primaries and trying to oust McConnell from his job. But Bannon hadn't counted on a group of women stepping forward to accuse Moore of sexually abusing them when they were teenagers, and he hadn't counted on the effect those accusations would have on the women who went to the polls on Tuesday.
Image: Democratic Senate Candidate Doug Jones Holds Election Night Watch Party In Birmingham
Supporters of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones celebrate as Jones is declared the apparent winner during his election night party Tuesday in Birmingham, Alabama. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
In that way, the result held silver linings for establishment Republicans in Washington. They had warned that Moore, who had long since alienated many moderate GOP voters in the state with his firebrand politics, would leave the seat vulnerable to Democratic takeover.
“Steve Bannon managed to do the impossible, and he should’ve forever secured a place in the Democratic consultant hall of fame,” Josh Holmes, a former McConnell chief of staff and campaign manager, said in an email exchange with NBC News. “It was thought to be damn near impossible for a Republican to lose the state of Alabama, but Steve Bannon hadn’t run a race there.”
Tick-tock: A historic election as it unfolded
Bannon didn’t have an official role with Moore’s campaign, but he was the most forceful advocate for the Republican nominee in national politics, and he headlined two rallies for the GOP nominee in the last week. On Friday, Trump, Bannon's old boss, visited Pensacola, Florida, about 15 miles from the Alabama border, and issued a full-throated endorsement of Moore that carried across the state line on cable television. His voice was also ignored by most of the state's women.
In fact, among both men and women, only 49 percent of Tuesday’s voters said they approve of the way Trump is handling his job, according to exit polling. And 52 percent said he wasn’t a factor in their decision in the Senate race.
 Doug Jones: Tonight Alabama took the right fork in the road 1:24
Jones’s coalition was built on women, African Americans, college graduates and younger voters — many of them in and around the metropolitan centers of Huntsville, Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile. Black voters accounted for 28 percent of the electorate, a slightly higher figure than their share of the population.
Moore won men, whites, less-educated voters and older voters. But he had trouble turning them out in the numbers he needed to win.
Zac McCrary, an Alabama-based Democratic pollster, credited Jones with doing the leg work to make sure he could take advantage of an energy among Democrats that has been evident in special elections across the country since Trump won the presidency.
“The Jones campaign built a real infrastructure and funded it,” McCrary said. “So they poured gasoline on the fire that was already going.”
But white women who typically support Republican candidates were a key factor in the outcome. Some crossed party lines to vote for Jones and many others simply declined to go to the polls.


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