I say this without even mentioning that the democrat, Doug Jones, could win this senate seat. But if Jones doesn't win, look at the vote and the turnout. Traditionally this election should have gone to the republican by a vast majority of the votes. Something of at least a 25 to 30 percentage point margin. But no, it is tight with the democrat with a real shot at actually winning. That right there is the moral victory. The coming elections in the near future are going to be a referendum on the trump administration and the republican majority congress and if this senate seat election in Alabama is any indicator then the democrats will do well going forward.
Our nation has had enough time to see now the trump and republican agenda so there is no doubt as to their intent. If this election in Alabama had been in a purple state we would be talking about a thumping of the republican candidate. Yet even in Alabama we can see the shades of blue and purple coming out. It is because the trump/republican agenda and candidate are not up to the standards of moral decency nor democracy's values. The republicans may well win and hold onto this senate seat but by no stretch of anyone's reasoned imagination can this be considered a republican affirmation. If not for the stubborn and bull headed conservative voters in Alabama, the argument and debate about who is best served to meet the needs of Alabamians would have been won handily by the democrat candidate, Doug Jones.
Hell, the republican lecher wouldn't even debate Jones. How fearful the republican party must be of the thinking voter for the republican to not even condescend to mingle with the intelligence of Alabama and the whole of America. The republican spews his vitriol at other Americans and pays homage to the Russian leader. Yet his base in Alabama is nearly ready to coronate him with the prestige of being a despised leader in the US Senate. But the voting time is still not yet so the case against the republican can continue to be made while the case for the democrat Jones can still be shouted out to all who would listen. Moral victories aside, I am greedy when it comes to electing democrats who are liberal and progressively oriented. And as a new beginning I would like to see enough of Alabama democrats, Independents and moderate republicans come together and give us something greater than a moral victory, we want a stinging rebuke of the trumps and the republican lackeys that support him.
Our nation has had enough time to see now the trump and republican agenda so there is no doubt as to their intent. If this election in Alabama had been in a purple state we would be talking about a thumping of the republican candidate. Yet even in Alabama we can see the shades of blue and purple coming out. It is because the trump/republican agenda and candidate are not up to the standards of moral decency nor democracy's values. The republicans may well win and hold onto this senate seat but by no stretch of anyone's reasoned imagination can this be considered a republican affirmation. If not for the stubborn and bull headed conservative voters in Alabama, the argument and debate about who is best served to meet the needs of Alabamians would have been won handily by the democrat candidate, Doug Jones.
Hell, the republican lecher wouldn't even debate Jones. How fearful the republican party must be of the thinking voter for the republican to not even condescend to mingle with the intelligence of Alabama and the whole of America. The republican spews his vitriol at other Americans and pays homage to the Russian leader. Yet his base in Alabama is nearly ready to coronate him with the prestige of being a despised leader in the US Senate. But the voting time is still not yet so the case against the republican can continue to be made while the case for the democrat Jones can still be shouted out to all who would listen. Moral victories aside, I am greedy when it comes to electing democrats who are liberal and progressively oriented. And as a new beginning I would like to see enough of Alabama democrats, Independents and moderate republicans come together and give us something greater than a moral victory, we want a stinging rebuke of the trumps and the republican lackeys that support him.
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