Alabama US Senate Special Election may occur sooner than November 2018.

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Republican Governor Kay Ivey has until May 2017 to have a special election for the AL US Senate seat in 2017. If the Special Election takes place in November 2017, AL Democrats need to nominate a top tier candidate-the Democratic party version of Scott Brown. Roger Bedford and the Republicans nominate the lackluster Luther Strange. The AL US Senate seat goes Democratic. In 2018 Democrats win every single Democratic held US Senate seat up in 2018 plus AZ and NV, Democrats will have 51 seats in the US Senate on January 2019.

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1. Reminder: AL is unlikely to elect a liberal Democrat

but consider the worst Democrat, Manchin, is ranked twice as highly as the best Republican, Susan Collins, over at Progressive Punch.

Politics is the art of taking what you can get and trying to make it better.

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2. Could Bobby Bright win a US Senate Race in AL?

Bright won AL-2 a strong Republican congressional district by a less than 1 percent margin and lost it in 2010 by a 2 percent margin.