GOP putting the squeeze on Moore - NRSC poll: Moore trails Jones by 12

[herding cats]

Republican Roy Moore is trailing Democrat Doug Jones by 12 points in the Alabama special Senate election, according to a poll conducted by the National Republican Senatorial Committee after five women accused Moore of pursuing them as teenagers.

Jones led Moore 51 to 39 percent, according to the survey taken Sunday and Monday. The NRSC withdrew its support for Moore after the Washington Post published the first allegations against Moore on Thursday, and the group’s chairman, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) said Moore should be expelled from the Senate if he wins on Dec. 12.


The poll shows a dramatic turn against Moore in Alabama: In early October, a committee poll had him leading by 16 points, and a survey early this month had him up by 9 points. Moore’s favorability numbers also tanked, from 49 percent in early October to 35 percent in the NRSC’s latest poll.

Several sources who reviewed the poll results said it also tested how Attorney General Jeff Sessions would fare as a write-in candidate, and the results were not favorable. Sessions held the seat for two decades before he joined the Trump administration, and he has been floated as a potential write-in candidate.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/15/roy-moore-doug-jones-poll-244937

This is an attempt to pressure Moore to drop out by the RNC, if I'm not mistaken.

[RandySF]

1. Im calling BS on this poll

[NCjack]

2. Roy's wife should run as the write-in candidate. So far, she has not been accused

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of hunting little girls. And, she seems as rabid as Roy.

[0rganism]

3. seems like an outlier, or maybe just an outliar

if Jones is leading at all, it's probably +5 or less. nothing the RNC is better at than putting a thumb on the scale, and they desperately want to avoid having their whole party tainted with pedophilia in the 2018 elections.