Black Voters, Mothers, and Millennials Carried Doug Jones to Victory
Black Voters, Mothers, and Millennials Carried Doug Jones to Victory
Can they make the difference in other red states in 2018?
By Joan Walsh TODAY 9:30 AM
There was healing justice in the way the vote rolled in from Alabama Tuesday night, as Democrat Doug Jones defeated racist, ultra-right deposed judge and accused child molester Roy Moore, in an unexpected victory that put an Alabama Senate seat in Democratic hands for the first time in 25 years.
As the hours passed we learned that black voters—from Selma to Montgomery to Birmingham, those citadels of the civil-rights movement—exceeded their turnout for Barack Obama in 2012, delivering Jones the victory.
The bottom line is that black voters saved the country once again. And they did it on the first night of Hanukkah—a sad blow to Moore’s “Jew” lawyer, as the Republican’s bigoted wife Kayla Moore put it at a disastrous Monday-night rally that probably cost Moore more votes than it won him.
A roster of groups devoted to black turnout, from Black PAC to #BlackVotersMatter to the NAACP, plus a web of small Alabama groups, pioneered new approaches that will be studied and possibly replicated in 50 states come November 2018. Once again, though, let’s take a moment to thank black women, who supported Jones 98-2.
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