All tied up and here’s good rundown of what’s left from my go to guy for this stuff.
Good areas remaining for Jones:
Montgomery
Jefferson
Dallas
Mobile (?)
Tuscaloosa (?)Good areas remaining for Moore:
Baldwin
I *think* Jones is the favorite…but need to see more Jefferson. #ALSEN
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 13, 2017
lamh36
Jones has taken the lead… by over 800 more votes coming through…still outstanding more than half of Mobile county!!!
lamh36
If Jones pulls this through… The Democratic party better damn well realize…who their most LOYAL base is and would maybe stop trying to win back the WWC.
And white America should give a giant THANK you to African American voters for once again saving you all from yourselves!
MomSense
Nail biter. C’mon Jones!
psycholinguist
prepare for the recount ratf**cking
MoeLarryAndJesus
If Jones wins I’m going out to sing with the rest of the Whos.
lamh36
Jones has a 5400 vote lead!!!
MaryL
@psycholinguist: It might not even be close enough for a recount, which I believe is automatically triggered only if the margin is .5% or less.
lamh36
Jones Now up to 11,000 statewide!!! and not idea where more Moore votes come!
SFAW
@MoeLarryAndJesus:
One of the best ideas I’ve heard/read.
Unfortunately, the Orange Grinch and the Turtle’s hearts would shrink, not grow, upon hearing that. But, as a wise man said: Fuckem.
Tinare
11,000 lead!
efgoldman
OT: I’m watching an old episode of Lawnorder. Everybody’s talking on pay phones.
dmsilev
Aleta
Is there a margin in AL that triggers a recount or allows a request?
@MaryL: OK, thanks!
lamh36
dmsilev
Take a moment to savor the panicky thoughts of Mitch McConnell right now, as his thin margin of error just got chopped down by one.
lamh36
AP CALLED IT FOR JONES!!!
ETA: No one else calling it yet
now 12,000 lead for Jones
guachi
This is a nuclear detonation upon the Republican party.
Tazj
@dmsilev: Yes! NYT has Jones at >95% to win.
Ian G.
So what if Moore refuses to concede? I mean, I mean I don’t expect him to accept losing to Satan’s candidate any more than I would expect the Iranian government to let an atheist win an election. What happens?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Howell Raines calls this a victory (spits between fingers, crosses himself, throws salt over his left shoulder) for vigorous centrism.
Jeffro
@lamh36: YYYYEEEEEESSSS!!!!!
Cue much beloved Obama tweet in 3, 2, 1…
dmsilev
@Aleta: Someone in the previous thread said that the threshold was 0.5%. It’s at about 0.8% right now, and the tea-leaf-readers expect Jones’ lead to grow a bit more with the last bunch of precincts. So probably no auto-recount.
some guy
theocrats and pedopphile enablers seem awful quiet and gloomy at Moore party. nice.
Ian G.
@lamh36:
Those lefty college professors and their radical students did it again! Roll Tide!
geg6
@lamh36:
I just posted on my FB page that African American women are today’s heroes and that they ARE the Resistance. I know who is the backbone of my party and it sure isn’t my fellow white women.
And the WaPo just called it.
Mike J
@lamh36: The Democratic party already knows. That weird little elf from Vermont needs to have it beaten into his, and his followers, heads.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
NYT calls it for Jones
psycholinguist
somebody smart tell us when Jones would take his seat. CNN just called it
some guy
nice, Wolf calls it for Jones on my TV.
superduper.
dmsilev
@Ian G.: Nothing. A concession is a polite formality, it has no legal force. If there’s no recount, the vote is certified and we welcome Senator Jones to Washington.
Aleta
Close your eyes, close the door
You don’t have to worry anymore
Shut the light, shut the shade
You don’t have to be afraid
Well, that mockingbird’s gonna sail away
We’re gonna forget it
That big, fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon
But we’re gonna let it
You won’t regret it
Kick your shoes off, do not fear
Bring that bottle over here
Old Dan and Little Anne
Fox called it for Jones 5 minutes ago. CNN 3 minutes ago. Rachel just said it’ll go deep into the night, Hmmm…
MJS
@psycholinguist: Shut the fuck up.
Lyrebird
@lamh36:
Dear heaven, I wish I could even think of a snarky reply, let alone some counter-argument, but this is currently so patently and pathetically true.
From someone who really really likes mayonnaise.
Note in case someone doesn’t understand what I am saying – I wish I could argue back not because I want to argue with lamh but because I wish we weren’t living with a white-supremacist administration voted in with help from Russia but with lots of votes by fellow white people. Some of whom supposedly have brains. Maybe even consciences.
MomSense
@geg6:
Yup. We owe them everything.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@psycholinguist: McConnell has vowed to string it out till next year, and Maddow I think said some peculiarity of AL election law means the vote won’t be certified till then anyway
JMS
This is an excellent birthday present. Thanks Alabama. Was a multibly disgraced racist pedophile finally a bridge too far?
SFAW
@Ian G.:
He gets locked in the Gadsden Mall, unarmed, with all the women he assaulted (or worse), plus their significant others, plus other concerned citizens.
If he can make it out unscathed, a recount will be considered.
Ken
@dmsilev: Trump too. I think it was someone on this blog who said that Trump wasn’t campaigning for a Senator, he was trying to get a sympathetic juror.
B.B.A.
@psycholinguist: McConnell said at the start of the next session, so January 3 – conveniently after the votes on the tax bill and CR. I expect him to fuck with the seating of Franken’s successor as well.
Jeffro
Ah ha ha ha – heyGOP, whaddya think about where Trumpov is taking you now?
mike in dc
@some guy:
LOL, MSNBC hasn’t called it and is only reporting about 40% of the vote in. Maybe they just want people to keep watching?
Barbara
NYT called it for Jones. That expensive bottle of wine I bought to celebrate what I hoped would be Clinton’s victory is going with me when I visit my mother for Christmas. I am so glad I gave money to Jones.
Aleta
@JMS: Happy birthday
MaryL
@dmsilev: To be honest, McConnell’s probably sighing in relief. I think he’d rather have Jones in the Senate than Moore. No Republicans wanted to have to go on record voting for or against any of the crazy amendments Moore was likely to put up on every piece of legislation.
ByRookorbyCrook
Doug! way to push for this win even before Moore became the hebephile. A glass of John J. Bowman raised to you. On to the next fight!
Also, and foremost, thank you to the African American voters in Alabama for saving what little face our nation has in the world.
James E. Powell
I’m going with three fingers of Tullamore Dew with one ice cube in it.
In moments like this, I wish I still smoked. I know it’s stupid & wrong, but I do.
Kraux Pas
@Ian G.:
I suppose he could request a recount, but AL only requires that within a 0.5% margin.
I wonder how this result will impact the tax bill. Hopefully there will be a lot more Republican Congressfolk looking at it a little more skeptically tomorrow.
PVDMichael
Martha Roby (R-Montgomery) needs a good well-funded competitor. She only won by 10% last time. Alabama Dems are enthused!
MomSense
@JMS:
Happy birthday!!
JMS
@MomSense: Thanks! Was a pretty blah birthday until now.
Omnes Omnibus
Thank you AA women of AL. Even if this result does not hold. It would not have been close to possible without you.
SFAW
And tonight’s winner in the “The Fucking Stones on These People” Category, we have Sen. Cory Gardner, who said:
“I hope Senator-elect Doug Jones will do the right thing and truly represent Alabama by choosing to vote with the Senate Republican Majority.”
Just remember kids: elections have consequences, but ONLY ONLY ONLY if the winner is a Rethug.
SFAW
@JMS:
Well, fortunately the blahs (in AL, that is) came through to make it a good one
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: WTF?
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: Loser Norm Coleman says Jones should switch parties so he can win next time.
DougJ
@ByRookorbyCrook:
Thanks
Amir Khalid
@Mike J:
Why did Coleman have to say that, when people already know he’s a loser?
Fake Irishman
@PVDMichael: Ms. Roby is on the Dems hit list.