The grassroots organizing in black communities by groups like local NAACP chapters was more muscular than it had even been in the 2016 general election. In the lead-up to Tuesday’s contest, voting-rights groups registered people with felonies, targeted awareness campaigns at people who might not have had proper ID, and focused specifically on knocking down the structures in place that keep black voters away from the polls. Their efforts immediately become a case study in how to do so in a region that has, since the Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision curtailing the 1965 Voting Rights Act, become a bastion of new voter-suppression laws, including new voter-ID laws.
This thread explains in detail how the Mobile County NAACP worked in tandem with the Jones campaign to turn out voters.
The money you donated to the Jones campaign helped pay for this effort. We had a good candidate, with enough money and enough sense to spend that money on the right things. There will be more Roy Moore caliber candidates running for “safe Republican seats” in 2018 – we need to field Jones quality efforts to beat them.
Jeffro
I hope the takeaway here to Dem donors, small or large or somewhere in between is this: 2018 is ripe for the taking – give what you can, and then give a little more. The energy and GOTV will matter of course but we have a real opportunity here to contest every seat across the country and that takes money.
A Ghost To Most
Giving money to Doug Jones, and then watching him beat the christian fascist, feels better than watching Jim Webb beat George “Macaca” Allen. Jones is a much better Democrat.
FlipYrWhig
Why it seems like only yesterday that we were being told that Democrats were fucking it up nine ways to Sunday by failing to invigorate the black population or link up with grassroots activists!
WereBear
IT CAN BE DONE.
Kay
Small donors could demand more of this, too. It’s our money. Tell them you want it spent well.
Butch
Joy Reid last night argued that voter suppression was still an issue, though – any thoughts on that? Apparently there weren’t enough people to check IDs and it made some lines really long.
Eric
Pundit: it was those 21000 white voters that put Jones over the top. So dems better make sure not to ignore those white voters elsewhere. Blah blah
I say we go after voters that believe in fairness justice, economic sanity, and equality for all americans while also showing mercy and kindness to people that want to be American. And, if there is a very large subset of white Americans that thinks those are unamerican values, then they can vote for the other party or write in the name of their crazy uncle at the end of the bar. I stand with Selma.
Percysowner
WOW! What a great thing to wake up to! I donated my little heart out in to Jones, but I thought it was probably a wasted effort with the race being Alabama and all. Jones won! I’m astounded and happy.
Rodger French
Amen. The Resistance is not futile. But it is also not free. As a first-time Alabama voter and contributor to the Jones campaign, I knew we had a shot: field a solid candidate and turn out the vote. And I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all the Black folks who went to the polls and made the difference. We had a good night.
aimai
@Butch: Of course voter suppression was still an issue–it happens all the way up and down the system so just increasing voter turn out by helping voters overcome point-of-registration problems doesn’t fix point-of-voting problems.
Basilisc
A key lesson is that voter suppression can work in the short-term, and needs to be combatted of course, but it doesn’t change public sentiment – all it really does is raise the bar. You can try to narrow the voting population further and further – but that means that even more are left out of the process. The excluded voters don’t disappear. If voters are committed enough, eventually they’ll overcome all the roadblocks and produce an even more violent swing against the ones who attempted to keep them from voting. And then the suppressors discover that their underlying support is much, much weaker than they thought. Deal with it, suckers.
Amir Khalid
@Butch:
Those who voted for Jones got themselves heard but it was despite obstacles deliberately put in their way. The mechanisms of voter suppression in Alabama and elsewhere are still in place, and so are the motives. (ETA: And they will be again in 2018 and 2020.) Reid is only pointing out the obvious.
Lapassionara
@aimai: in most states, there is a county agency that handles voting. That is where the decisions about number of voting machines and personnel in each precinct get made. I think there should be a concerted effort in each state to affect those decisions, starting now. I would think there are already voter rights orgs in place that can make this a priority, but if so, I do not know who they are.
I have staffed an election protection program before. Short of getting a TRO to keep polls open, there are not many remedies for this sort of problem on Election Day. The remedies are more voting machines and more personnel.
Immanentize
Yes, we won! But the goal should now be to keep that seat. To let Jones represent his State which I believe he can do without turning away from basic Dem principles but last night I worry-wondered who will.be the first to decry Senator Jones as a neoliberal corporatist tool and ask for a primary challenge.
Belafon
I’m hoping this will get replicated here in Texas.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Well congrats Jones and congrats NAACP.
I see 1% over Moore, like was predicted. Alabama….
Trump is claiming he was always against Moore. What a phony.
Conservatives are calling for Banon’s head.
artem1s
Moore didn’t make a concession speech last night. I expect major ratfuckery when it comes to certifying the vote. And then the disqualification of all those provisional ballots will begin in earnest. On the other hand Senator Harris was on twitter calling for Jones to be sworn in immediately so Alabama can have a say in the tax vote. I wonder if McConnel will try to keep Jones from taking his seat thru some Senate rules ratfuckery.
they have proven themselves craven over and over again. I expect nothing but evil from them now.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@artem1s: I gather McConnel really, really loathes Moore so I suspect not. The GOP wanted Luther Strange but consider Moore a nut case.
Josie
@Belafon: Yes. I’d love for Beto O’Rourke to give this same sort of surprise to Ted Cruz.
Immanentize
@Belafon:
It could — people on our side are motivated, Republicans are discouraged and everyone hates Ted Cruz.
artem1s
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: McConnel may loath Moore but he’s also the architect of the Gorsuch theft of a SCOTUS seat.
Jeffro
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: The headlines at Fox Snooze dot com are pretty funny this morning…”Moore refuses to concede after Jones’ apparent victory” (“apparent”? Really, Fox?)
Also funny: “Moore, battered by the media and establishment*, loses in huge Alabama upset” (*to say nothing of revelations that he was BANNED FROM A MALL FOR PREYING ON KIDS)
Near the top: “College enlists Care Bears to help stressed college students” (‘those fragile librul snowflakes! Care Bears!’)
Intriguing: “White House looks to move past Trump-Gillibrand feud” (oh I’ll just BET they’d like to ‘move past’ it…)
Next up: “We need fresh blood says pro-Trump singer Joy Villa” I’m sure this will be the GOP’s next move, trying to run as many female and minority candidates as they can possibly find…
Amir Khalid
@A Ghost To Most:
Is Jim Webb still going on about Scots-Irish heritage? I remember him branding himself as the Democrats’ pro-WWC candidate in 2016.
Immanentize
I think that Alabama law says that the certification has to happen by January 3. Jones cannot be seated until the election is certified.
Immanentize
@Josie: why isn’t one of the Castro brothers running?
Amir Khalid
@Jeffro:
You must be reading that wromg. I’m sure it’s actually a vampire demanding easier access to victims.
Jeffro
Rick Wilson on Twitter this morning:
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Josie
@Immanentize: Joaquin is staying in the House for now. For unknown reasons, Julian bowed out to leave the field open for Beto. Some think he is gearing up for a shot at the presidential race in 2020.
Amir Khalid
@Immanentize:
The State Secretary says he doesn’t expect to certify Jones’ win until late December. What’s the hold-up? Is he still expecting votes to emerge from somewhere and give Moore the win?
Matt McIrvin
@Immanentize: Bragman and HA Goodman are both ragetweeting about how the narrowness of the win proves how pathetic the corporatist Democrats are.
rikyrah
@Butch:
Of course, they had voter suppression. It was to be expected, but nonetheless infuriating.
Matt McIrvin
@Amir Khalid: There aren’t enough absentee ballots to do it.
Ian G.
I said it last night and I’ll say it again: the money I gave Jones after the Moore sex predator revelations came out was some of the best money I’ve ever spent. Now if only they’d stop fucking emailing me….
rikyrah
I love that the DNC kept the extent of their support for Jones on the downlow, not bragging about it, but just cutting the checks and doing what the Jones campaign said that they needed.
rikyrah
@Amir Khalid:
The hold up is that, until it’s certified, Jones can’t be seated in the Senate.
It’s all about the tax cuts. Another maneuver by The Turtle.
Uh huh
Uh huh
Josie
@rikyrah: Perez is looking pretty good right now.
Immanentize
@Amir Khalid: We are pretty much already into late December. Every county has to certify their vote totals to the SOS then he has to check to be sure that the uncounted provisional ballots plus any unopened absentee ballots do not equal a number greater than the margin. Or probably most accurately, greater than the vote margin minus .5% (auto recount). Those appropriate checks can take a few days.
JR
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: They’ve been waiting for their opportunity ever since he knifed them last year.
Jeffro
@Matt McIrvin: Ok, that’s pretty funny…
Ian G.
@Belafon:
Use the strategies that got blacks to the polls in AL to get Hispanics to the polls in Texas. Texas isn’t as right-wing in Alabama, and Ted Cruz is nearly as slimy as Moore. It can be done!
Immanentize
@Matt McIrvin: Oh fuck, you’re kidding me. That doesn’t make me hopeful
rikyrah
Birmingham City Councilwoman Sheila Tyson, who coordinated a state-wide effort focused on organizing black women: “We knew somebody had to carry [Jones] over the line, and we knew it was going to have to be us.” https://t.co/FxQsdXWxYJ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 13, 2017
WaterGirl
Can you post a link to the Act Blue page used for Doug Jones donations here at BJ? I would like to see how much we raised and how many donations there were.
daveNYC
I don’t think we can count on Roy Moore caliber candidates showing up that often. Equivalently horrible on the policies, sure, but I don’t think we’ll be lucky enough to be facing multiple pedophile candidates.
rikyrah
Let this sink in – Jefferson Beauregard Sessions’ Senate seat was taken by a civil rights lawyer who convicted Klansmen. Justice is sweet.
— Lily Adams (@adamslily) December 13, 2017
rikyrah
Absolutely right. The task for @SenateDems is clear: SLOW. IT. DOWN. No votes until Jones is seated. Don’t let GOP ram their agenda through with a lame duck senator. We won big tonight – don’t surrender on us now. https://t.co/A69DlJvEbt
— Ezra TrumpTaxScam.org Levin (@ezralevin) December 13, 2017
rikyrah
Are we going to talk about the story of the fake scandal that’s been pushed against Chuck Schumer?
JMG
@daveNYC: Not every place is Alabama, either. A Republican rep. in suburban New Jersey just has to be the SOB who voted to end your state and local property tax deduction.
Immanentize
@rikyrah: Capital police are on that. I think someone(s) just made a big big mistake. Veritas?
Amir Khalid
@Matt McIrvin:
I don’t know who that other guy is, but fuck HA Goodman.
low-tech cyclist
It was worth sending some shekels to Doug Jones’ campaign.
And listening to the wingnuts desperately clinging to a state of denial this morning is sweet. IIRC, that’ll be followed by anger, bargaining, and depression. I’m not expecting them to get to acceptance.
SFAW
@Matt McIrvin:
A commenter at TPM was saying that Jones should have been able to beat a vile person like Moore without breaking a sweat, so it’s not much of a victory. The commenter used that trope to talk about how far our “society” has fallen.
I pointed out that the “society” BS is just a variant of both-siderism. I also gave him/her shit about the “not much of a victory” idiocy. I couldn’t tell if the commenter was a Berniebro, a concern troll, an Eeyore (or some combination of those), or something else completely. On the other hand, not going to spend any more time wondering.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Al Giordano said right after the election last November that the women were going to lead the resistance, particularly to women of color, and he said we needed to listen to them and let them lead. He was right.
Huge thanks to Birmingham City Councilwoman Sheila Tyson, who coordinated a state-wide effort focused on organizing black women. Thanks also to the black women here who tell it like it is.
Matt McIrvin
@SFAW: If you go looking for a time when Alabama politics wasn’t vile, I think you basically have to go back to a very short period during Reconstruction.
schlemazel
I sent Jones $25 this summer thinking it was really just set on fire. I sent another $25 about 6 weeks ago more out of spite than hope. Best $50 I have spent for an election not in the state I live. Lets hope other Dems can learn and a thousand flowers bloom. The bastards may have killed Acorn but we can replace it with a hydra.
Mike J
@rikyrah: I wish Axios would burn their source. A source that lies to you has broken the agreement.
Timurid
@schlemazel:
HAIL HYDRA!
germy
lamh36
for real now…what da hell does Trump co have on Lindsey Graham…is he trying to hitch his wagon to a new horse since McCain’s days are numbered, or do they have photographic evidence of something…
Patricia Kayden
@Amir Khalid:
Exactly. Obstacles had to be overcome in order for Jones to eke out a slim victory. We need to work towards getting rid of these voter suppression tactics even though they are surmountable if voters of color flood the polls.
Redshift
@Butch: An African-American voter in Alabama told her story of voting in her hometown on Twitter. Basically, people who vote in every election were marked “inactive” and had to prove their identity with various information, including the county where they were born.
So yeah, pretty serious voter suppression. We didn’t have that level of crap in Virginia when when Republicans were in charge.
Amir Khalid
@SFAW:
A closely fought 1-0 victory that keeps a football team in the league title race is very significant even though it’s narrow. That TPM commenter has missed the difference between the margin of the victory and its significance. As with Donald Trump, many Republican voters saw Moore for the vile person he is, and at the party’s urging chose to vote for the party rather than the man. They were never going to vote for Jones; Democrats on the ground recognised that the way to win was to outnumber them, rather than to win them over.
Barbara
@Matt McIrvin: At some point a political and world view so impervious to reality seems like a form of psychosis. A blowout was never in the cards because THIS IS FUCKING ALABAMA WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE but anything less than that is seen as evidence of weakness when, in reality ANY victory is evidence of incredible strength. Oh but yes, they can keep maintaining the counterfactual that a “Sanders” style candidate would have cleaned Moore’s clock by margins of at least blankety blank. I remember reading once (and I don’t remember where) that in England many well-heeled Labor voters were apt to romanticize the working class and demonize the “Bourgeoisie,” whereas, the working class voters themselves aspired to become part of the Bourgeoisie. Which is how and why these Labor voters got the shock of their lives when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister.
schlemazel
@lamh36:
Come on! You KNOW what Putin has on Graham, he has pictures and audio of him with rent boys. Its only a secret from GOP voters
rikyrah
Lisa McNair, sister of one of the four girls killed in the 1963 church bombing, is hugged as U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones is declared the winner @MGMAdvertiser #alpolitics #alsen #dougjones pic.twitter.com/0snhX9dDHD
— Mickey Welsh (@mickeywelsh) December 13, 2017
rikyrah
America: No way Black Women will pull off this upset in Alabama.
Black Women in Alabama: pic.twitter.com/q2dDLYSrsh
— Deontée Gordon (@deongordon) December 13, 2017
Patricia Kayden
@SFAW:
How far White voters have fallen that the majority of them supported Moore despite credible child molestation allegations. I’m not including Black folks in that pot. Sorry.
Barbara
@lamh36: Well, there are two theories. Someone who supports Trump is holding seriously compromising information on Graham or Graham is campaigning to be Rex Tillerson’s replacement as SOS.
Patricia Kayden
@Matt McIrvin: We can mark them off as Repubs and move on. Their opinions mean nothing.
germy
gene108
@Immanentize:
I assume Jones is going to tread the line like Manchin. Say some stuff that irks us, but will be there for the big votes that matter like ACA repeal and the tax bill.
Of course, you are right, that people will call Jones a sell out, because they know Alabama really wants is a Scandinavian style democratic soc$ialist society and we need is a candidate, who will explain to them what their secret desires are.
Redshift
@SFAW: I saw several posts from ostensible Bernistas (who, to be fair, could have been Russian trolls) declaring that the result proves that only the quality of the candidates matters, and we’ll win when we have a better candidate. One explicitly said it shows Russia doesn’t control our elections, and voter suppression doesn’t work.
Major Major Major Major
@Matt McIrvin:
Useless, horrible people.
LurkerNoLonger
@rikyrah: Whoever did it can’t even ratfuck correctly. Either Russian or some lowely intern at Veritas. Very shoddy work.
gene108
Have comment in moderation for using s o c I a l I s t. Please help.
germy
@Major Major Major Major:
Out of curiosity I check greenwald’s twitter.
Not a whisper from him about the election results. He simply doesn’t care.
JMG
Collins says the election shouldn’t delay the tax bill. It’s rare when you see a pol with so little courage they seek to avoid a situation giving them lots of power. She’s also not smart. Her yes vote won’t help her with the right because of her Obamacare repeal no, and with the left it’ll be vice versa. She’ll either retire, lose in a 2020 primary, or lose the 2020 general.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@FlipYrWhig:
Bernie’s ordinary Americans have a sad today.
FlipYrWhig
@Matt McIrvin: Those are two stupid motherfuckers, or, as I have been speculating here and on LGM, one motherfucker using his prep school yearbook and mashing up first and last names at random to create Twitter accounts. You expect me to believe that “Brogan Morris,” “Walker Bragman,” “Hamilton Nolan,” *and* “H.A. Goodman” are *all* ACTUAL leftier-than-thou dickheads? Come on, that beggars belief.
Barbara
@Mike J: In this case, the source did not just lie, it fabricated a legal filing including a forged signature of a woman who used to work for Schumer. She should be able to sue the perpetrator for defamation.
magurakurin
@SFAW: I read that exchange. Some of these people need to take a seat. I didn’t think Jones would win and I am now overjoyed he did. For the first time in over a year I feel hope. This was a great victory by a great candidate. They did an amazing job.
lamh36
Omarosa is “resigning” from the WH effective next month
gene108
@rikyrah:
How exactly are Democrats going to prevent Republicans from voting? If some sort of regular-ish order is in place they could grind things down to a crawl, but Mitch chucked all the rules out the window to ram through the tax bill with little possibility of Democratic obstruction.
schrodingers_cat
@Patricia Kayden: At this point their actions show them to be R stooges.
aimai
This makes me think about the amazing story of voter turnout for Obama–the granularity of the reach of all those different interest groups and minority identified communities versus the collapse of Romney’s computerized model. There’s no doubt that data crunching, false Facebook ads, and other things cost Hillary the election but what AA women in Alabama have shown us is that good, old fashioned, community organizing, phone calling, hand holding, and dragging people out to vote can still win elections.
smintheus
Asked my wingnut neighbor today
Normally he’s quite chatty about politics.
J R in WV
Well, Hurrray for the Alabama NAACP and the strong Democrats down there!
I donated a weekly amount that felt right to me, amounted to a pretty good amount and was a regular flow they could count on. I still got a ton of begging for more, probably from the consultants, but that doesn’t really hurt. The un-subscribe wouldn’t work because the next week there would be another donation.
We had a (now-cancelled) appointment in town and went to bed early, so this was good news to wake up to!!
Hurray, and thanks to everyone who helped out Senator Jones, especially “judge” Moore, who couldn’t have done a better job of showing his ass to everyone!
Guess God’s mission for “judge” Moore is “Shut up you old perv!”
germy
@lamh36:
Amir Khalid
@FlipYrWhig:
Last year, I unwisely decided to watch Ha Goodman’s YouTube videos. They were full of foaming-at-the-mouth anti-Hillary ravings. He is indeed a real person, although I do still wonder if he’s for real.
Doug!
@WaterGirl:
We raised a little over 20K.
schrodingers_cat
@Doug!: Great job DougJ! Also too congratulations for winning the Alabama senate seat.
Steve in the ATL
@lamh36:
Videos of rent boys urinating on him?
Major Major Major Major
@gene108:
Well, it’s actually through application of the rules, but it’s certainly a violation of norms.
Barbara
You have to think of donations the way venture capitalists think of investments. You don’t buy a company once it has already become successful; you invest based on realistic expectations but even then, most of your investments lose or barely break even. I support even the long shots by donating to party structures. I support the reasonable case but hardly sure bets with direct donations, if I can. There are times that I think my husband is going to file papers of separation because he is so annoyed at how many unsolicited telephone and email requests for donations we receive, but I don’t let it bother me.
rikyrah
I did have to crack up at the tweet of the Brotha in Alabama who used his MUGSHOT as proof of Government ID.
We are inventive people:)
Thoroughly Pizzled
@Major Major Major Major:
They lost big. Their entire argument is, “You can’t win without me, so put me in charge,” and now the party can win without them. The bluff got called.
geg6
@rikyrah:
My guess is James O’Keefe, idiot nonpareil, is behind it. Glad Schumer took it to the police.
different-church-lady
I just want to know when whining on the internet is going to get some credit!
Matt McIrvin
@Redshift: I’d really like to know how that happened, and so would the ACLU.
I’ve actually been caught by the “inactive list” thing in Massachusetts; you get on it there by failing to return the snail-mail town census a couple of times (which is bad enough, to my mind), and you can vote regularly by providing proof of address. Birth county is a new one on me.
(I don’t know what I’d write, exactly–I don’t have a birth county. The city where I was born is not in a county.)
tobie
Lots of reasons to celebrate today and lots to learn about good strategies for 2018 but the historical revisionism going on in the media and in the blogosphere is annoying. I would go so far as to say that the GOTV efforts in this special election were not different in kind from those in 2016. What made them more effective was that having a FRIGGIN AUTOCRAT in the White House has taught people that you can’t take voting for granted. This is especially true for millennials, many of whom sat out in 2016 because the Dem candidate wasn’t hip. Anyhow…the momentum’s on the side of justice right now and we need to do whatever we can to keep it going.
different-church-lady
@Redshift:
Oh, those are genuine Bernistas alright.
Matt McIrvin
@tobie: There was much more organization in Alabama, but that’s because Alabama was seen as possibly gettable this time around.
different-church-lady
@Thoroughly Pizzled:
The “can’t win without them” is just cover bullshit.
catclub
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Going to Alabama and telling them to vote for Moore, but also telling them to ignore outsiders coming in and telling them how to vote is a little too obvious.
Then calling Alabama School of Law an un-prestigious law school is not the best follow up.
OTOH If Moore gets a recount it will be from Mercer money – directed by Bannon.
lamh36
@germy:
lamh36
Vince
I keep seeing people talking about absentee ballots but the AL secretary of state said last night that those ballots have already been counted and reported.
piratedan
@geg6: supposedly such paragons of virtue like Mike Cernovich and Rage Furby are involved in it as well. If so, I wish them to have the most ineffective counsel evah.
germy
@lamh36: Fox News will probably hire her. They’re desperate to display… diversity.
lamh36
Looks like somebody whispered in Tom Perez’s ear that he needed to be more clear!!
tobie
@Matt McIrvin: @Matt McIrvin: Yes, I agree that the party didn’t contest Alabama in 2016. But I had some experience with the GOTV effort in rural PA and it was good. Even in ruby red neighborhoods, the few remaining registered Dems and/or Dem-leaning Independents had their doors knocked on multiple times in the run-up to the election. No stone was left unturned. People weren’t enthused about the candidate because the media convinced them she was woefully corrupt. That was the enormous headwind we were fighting against.
catclub
@gene108: I think if you write socialist, but put some of it in italics, or bold, it passes the filters.
socialist
socialist
different-church-lady
@tobie: There’s never just one reason for something, but you can hardly get anyone in our society to wrap their heads around that.
* Moore revealed as a pedophile
* Motivated, angry democrats, especially among POC
* Veil slowly being ripped off “Trumpism”
* Monumental get-out-the-vote effort
* Smart democratic candidate
ALL of these were required to summit this impossible mountain. We can have productive debates about what order they should go in and the relative importance of each. But trying to claim that only one was “the reason” just amounts to opinionated grandstanding, not political savvy — and it’s easy to see here in the Age of Twitter that there are more people than ever who think the former is the same as the latter.
lamh36
we already know Kelly don’t much seem to care for WOC…so I’m not SHOCKED that he was happy to do it…
different-church-lady
@germy:
Oh he cares. He just hasn’t figured out his 10k-word spin yet.
different-church-lady
@lamh36: “Ruin the country all you want, just don’t be a potty-mouth when you do it.”
hafabee
@Ian G.:
The tiny unsubscribe link at the bottom of those emails is your friend!
schrodingers_cat
@lamh36: He is also been feeding T’s paranoia against the news media.
different-church-lady
@lamh36:
Molester recognize molester.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
As I said last night, I am SO grateful that African-American women and men in Alabama were willing to be the adults in the room and vote for an imperfect candidate while white voters on both the right AND the left were throwing childish tantrums. I’m embarrassed that it was necessary, but I’m relieved that AA voters were willing and able to step up and save us all.
tobie
@different-church-lady:
I wasn’t claiming that only one factor was the reason. Jones ran a great campaign. I think, though, that we sometimes overlook how energized we’ve all become since Nov 8, 2016. Case in point: the many millions who took to the streets for the Women’s March in DC and elsewhere. Trump has been a wake-up call. Too many people were complacent in the run-up to the 2016.
different-church-lady
@Patricia Kayden: Oh come on now, you know perfectly well non-whites aren’t legitimate members of society! /s
trollhattan
@rikyrah:
That’ll be hard to top as my laugh ‘o the day. :-)
SFAW
@Patricia Kayden:
No argument from me.
different-church-lady
@tobie:
Yes, sorry, I was trying to expand on what you were saying, not accuse.
We’re going to see plenty of others seizing on a single reason, and that’s going to lead to lots of reasonable whatabouts. If we fall into the habit of squabbling over which one is most important and act like the rest don’t matter, we don’t grow what we’ve learned here into future wins and loose a big opportunity.
tobie
@different-church-lady: Thanks for explaining. No offense taken.
different-church-lady
@different-church-lady: AAAAGH! TOO MANY O’S.
catclub
@different-church-lady: in addition, this:
The GOP not being united in backing Moore.
catclub
@different-church-lady: I think that Trump’s ability to skate on those perv allegations is unique.
danielx
Oooooo-kay….tweet storm incoming in 5….4…3…
Featuring the “failing USA Today”, no doubt
Miss Bianca
@rikyrah: For realz? OK, that cracks me up. Hope it worked for him!
Brachiator
@Butch:
Of course, voter suppression is still an issue. It will always be an issue. Just means that campaigns have to fight it and include these efforts as part of their campaign strategy.
Gelfling 545
@daveNYC: Please. These are Rublicans we’re talkingabout here.
SuzieC
@WaterGirl:
Damn right. I contributed $150.00 to Jones. Best money I ever spent.
Brachiator
@catclub:
Please, please, please, GOP. Please be more united in backing terrible candidates. The more pervy, the better. The more ridiculously outlandish, the better (I heard that Moore rode up on his horse Sassy to cast his vote in the Alabama Senate election).
Hannity, Bannon, all these clowns exhibit a tone deafness to morality and ethics as they elevate party over everything. This can only hurt them more in the future.
Brachiator
@tobie:
Everything you wrote is wrong or uninformed. The Democrats in Alabama understood the political terrain and what was needed to maximize “get out the vote efforts” in that particular state.
Barbara
@Brachiator: Voter suppression should always be an issue wherever it occurs the same way securing the liberty of actually innocent people should be an issue even if only a small number of people are facing unjustified incarceration. Because it is a horrendous injustice.
schrodingers_cat
@Matt McIrvin: What if you were not born in a fucking county?I was born in South Mumbai, in one of the oldest parts of the city which has been home to Kipling, Gandhi and Jinnah among its notables.
Aleta
Heidi Mom
@Eric: Beautifully stated! I’m in.
Archon
@danielx:
I suspect now that the media knows people are truly mobilized politically against Trump they will stop hedging and start calling it like it is.
Matt McIrvin
@schrodingers_cat: then you have to guess how many jelly beans in the jar, probably.
schrodingers_cat
@Matt McIrvin: Thankfully, I don’t live in Alabama.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@gene108: Probably wouldn’t have voted for Manchin (which I understand was necessary in VA, but still). But yes.
WaterGirl
@Doug!: That’s truly awesome. $20,000 is real money! We can all be proud to have been part of that, and you deserve kudos for continually prompting us to donate to Doug Jones.
Doug!
@WaterGirl:
We’re nearing in on 60K total for 2017. Way more than we’ve ever done in an off year before.
WaterGirl
@Doug!: Wow. That’s a big joe biden fucking deal.
gwangung
@tobie:
According to the NAACP, this is factually incorrect and staggeringly so.
Mnemosyne
@gwangung:
I especially liked the part about Jones using some of his first donations to put up billboards introducing himself in Black neighborhoods. I’m assuming that was in large part due to the advice of the AL NAACP.
B_Rogers
@Ian G.: same here. I mean, I work in non profits, I get how development and fundraising pitches work, but since I work in non profits my money is tight. I calculated everything I could give, gave it and got 6-8 emails a day asking for more.
I am thrilled to have helped (and more thrilled that we won) but I’m happy to see the deluge stop.
PLUS: thanks to the BJ community to provide the links that made donating so easy!
B_Rogers
@Doug!: awesome!!!!