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Doug Jones Win One For History Books
Rickey StokesViewed: 3250
Posted by: RStokes
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Date: Dec 13 2017 8:24 AM
ALABAMA:
By Chip Brownlee
Alabama Political Reporter
Alabama politics did the only thing Alabama politics knows how to do: take the unexpected and make it into a reality, with Democratic candidate Doug Jones pulling off a historic upset. The election places a Democratic Senator from the Yellowhammer State in Congress for the first time in a quarter-century.
The newly elected senator and his campaign, built on an unlikely alliance of crossover Republicans, women, black voters and millennials, delivered a shockingly solid defeat to Republican candidate former Chief Justice Roy Moore, who, just a few months ago, was thought to be a shoe-in.
With higher-than-expected turnout, Alabamians’ decision to send Jones to Washington served as a stunning rebuke to Moore, a firebrand conservative judge who has long been a divisive figure in Alabama politics — from his stand for the Ten Commandments in courtrooms and courthouses to his unflinching opposition to same-sex marriage.
While Moore built his campaign on that same rhetoric, a defining characteristic of his decades in public life that built him a national following, Jones provided an antithesis, shaping his campaign around what he called “common decency and common respect.”
“Folks, and you have all heard me say this at one point or another in this campaign, I have always believed that the people of Alabama have more in common than divides us,” Jones said at an electric victory party. “We have shown not just around the state of Alabama but we have shown the country the way that we can be unified.”
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