“What do you think Breitbart’s name ID is in this state, five percent?”
Statewide, sure I’ll spot you that.
Among voters in this primary? More like 95%. And as others have pointed out, Moore appeals to the same batshit crazies who have Breitbart as their homepage (assuming they know how to set their homepage).
I think it might be the other way around. Kansas’s Brownback (Brown-Ass?) experiments made Kansas the next Alabama. If Moore wins, it’ll just be Alabama taking back its Stupid Conservative Revanchism Crown.
Or, you know, rather than jumping straight to the reflexive assault on the Democratic Party as the real problem, you could have just Googled the question first and found this:
https://dougjonesforsenate.com/
He’s a great candidate. Klan-busting, white male former U.S. Attorney from a blue collar family who won the Democratic primary outright, so no runoff, which is why there are no stories about him right now.
And no, even if the DNSC poured every dollar it has into this race, he wouldn’t win against the candidate from Giliad because it’s Alafuckingbama.
I’m not saying a wave election is coming. But I am saying that if there is a wave election coming, I would expect to see the party that’s about to get its ass kicked doubling down on the extremes that are fueling the national revulsion in the states where they feel invulnerable.
Yes but AL is already a poor, broken state unlike KS, at least before Brownbackstain became Gov. and destroyed their civil service, schools and teachers, roads and bridges and even managed to kill employment!
He isn’t viewed as a political operative by the Mercers, so that isn’t the metric being used. He is viewed as a rabble rouser, and as long as Brietbart is drawing eyeballs as they promote wingnuttery, then he has their support.
More specifically, the Mercers are no doubt looking into how much the can affect these elections via Brietbart and their various data analytic firms.
The problem that may soon develop, however, is Bannon may not view himself in the same way anymore. He most likely is thinking he IS a political operative; aka, that he is the kingmaker and the real power behind the throne. At the very least, he wants to be “the brain” of the alt-right.
And when there is confusion about the role, the people with the bank usually win, and if they don’t, the person without the bank loses spectacularly.
Bannon doesn’t have any power - but he does have Mercer money. This the battle of the oligarchs - the actual politicians involved are irrelevant.
Given that the alt-right thinks with its gut, that would make Bannon’s brain …
I’ll leave that exercise in basic logic up to the reader to complete.
He´ll be around until the Mercers dump him, which won´t be any time soon.
Yep. Robert Mercer is paying millions for some lunatic crank scientist to collect and store human urine. Somebody who’s willing to do that doesn’t have the normal metrics for what constitutes a reasonable expenditure. Mercer is also so fucking rich that whatever he spends on Bannon is a drop in the bucket for him.
As far as Bannon goes, it’s glaringly obvious he DOES consider himself the brains behind the alleged “populist” movement he’s promoting. Breitbart + Mercer cash gives him the platform for every bit as much bamboozlement now as was carried out on behalf of Trump in 2016.
Excellent point, thanks. I’ll check out his campaign, and maybe throw some $$ his way. Sometimes it’s hard to fight the knee-jerk rant impulse 
Very little difference between Strange and Moore in terms of how they would vote. But all this drama in the AL-Sen race is making Doug Jones a good choice. Trump is only at 51% in AL, which is surprising. I doubt George W. Bush was ever less than 70% in AL. The real message is that people want a check on Trump, because he’s fucking crazy. The deal that Pelosi/Schumer struck with Trump (overhyped as it is) was probably more of a relief to Republicans than it was to Democrats. It would make a lot of conservative leaning Indies vote Democrat, because it might produce a better Trump. I’d put a little money on Doug Jones right now. Not favored, but he’s closer than a Vegas betting line would suggest.
“Judge” Moore believes all LGBT people deserve the death penalty. Yikes!
Unfortunately I think you are right. Roy Moore is the epitome of megalomania. A judge who thinks he is the law and that he can do whatever he wants. He lost his seat on the Alabama Supreme Court for disobeying a federal court order on the ten commandments monument, then got reelected to the court. Then he disobeyed another court order regarding gay marriage.
People in Alabama see him as someone to look up to. He has a blatant disregard for the federal government. He’s one of those who make the dysfunction of the government a self-fulfilling prophecy. They don’t think the government works, so they get elected to the government to make sure it doesn’t work.
Moore is one level short of Arpaio simply because he didn’t have the executive authority . Dangerous crazy creep.
Maybe they can take his monument and place it in front to the door of his senate office so no one can get in or out.
When I think of Alabama, I think of Selma and dogs and fire hoses. I think of George Wallace and, of course, of Roy Moore. I try not to think of Alabama, but it’s still there. I realize that there are decent people who live in Alabama, but they are outnumbered by about two to one.
As a native of Alabama, who fled the state in 1969, let me just point out that Bannon’s involvement here is meaningless. This is Alabama. Which gave Trump his biggest margin of victory. Which has twice elected Roy to the Alabama supreme court, not ignoring, but reveling in the fact he ignores the US constitution and the rule of law, and puts his Xtian religion above the law. Every waking moment. This a state which is caught in a time warp from before the Civil War. The racism, sexism, homophobia, bigotry, and classism will not die, not even in several more generations. They are inbred, they are inculcated consciously in the two seats of higher learning, Auburn and especially the University of Alabama, the proving and training grounds for the white ruling class.
We still have family and dear friends of a lifetime in Alabama. And fond memories of our childhood and early adulthood. But the idea of moving there in retirement? Not in a million years. I would sooner hit my head with a hammer.
Stupid fell on Alabama.
The polling referred to here puts Trump at 56% in Alabama: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-where-is-trump-popular-and-what-does-that-mean-for-2018/article/2633941
Still, it’s lower than I would have guessed—I would have thought he would be at 70% down there.
Yes but Kansas is in the middle, whereas Alabama has a coastline, which leaves it more vulnerable to natural forces. It would be an interesting thing to watch as to which state can sink faster, lower, quicker.