Doug Jones has won the election, according to A.P.

[NRaleighLiberal]

Source: AP via NYT and Twitter

BREAKING: Democrat Doug Jones won election to the U.S. Senate from Alabama in a sharp blow to President Trump that narrows the GOPs majority in the Senate to two. He beat Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court who had been accused of sexual misconduct.

Better link

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/us/politics/alabama-senate-race-winner.html?_r=0

Once a Long Shot, Democrat Doug Jones Wins Alabama Senate Race

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Doug Jones, a Democratic former prosecutor who mounted a seemingly quixotic Senate campaign in the face of Republican dominance here, defeated his scandal-scarred opponent, Roy S. Moore, after a brutal campaign marked by accusations of sexual abuse and child molestation against the Republican, according to The Associated Press.

The upset delivered an unimagined victory for Democrats and shaved Republicans’ unstable Senate majority to a single seat.

Mr. Jones’s victory could have drastic consequences on the national level, snarling Republicans’ legislative agenda in Washington and opening, for the first time, a realistic but still difficult path for Democrats to capture the Senate next year. It amounted to a stinging snub of President Trump, who broke with much of his party and fully embraced Mr. Moore’s candidacy, seeking to rally support for him in the closing days of the campaign.

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[FailureToCommunicate]

1. Finally, a flicker of good news!

[blue-wave]

2. YES!!!!!!!!!!

Very sweet!!!! Thank you to all in Alabama who stood and waited to vote in long lines. Also to those who worked tirelessly to make it happen. Let's make it blue Wave in 2018!!!!!

[bronxiteforever]

3. Right on! They are the heroes!

[Julian Englis]

4. Even Faux News is calling it for Jones. No link b/c FauxNews is evil. n/t

[Honeycombe8]

5. WOOOO HOOOO!!!! A Trump stronghold FALLS like lead!

[EL34x4]

6. Thank You Alabama! (n/t)

[DeminPennswoods]

7. Jones and his team ran a

brilliant campaign. This should be a model for Dems running in the south from here on out.

Kudos to the Alabamians who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Dem, but wrote in someone other than Moore. And to the African-American community that turned out in force for Jones.

[disalitervisum]

8. My country!

America! The United States of America!

[Honeycombe8]

9. Jones and his team did a GREAT job!!!!!

An historical day! Even with Moore's issues, it was possible for a Dem to lose. The Dem Party & Jones did a terrific job. They GOTV!!!

And the people of Alabama showed up to vote!

[47of74]

10. YES!!!! FUCK YOU ROY MOORE!

[EarthFirst]

14. This.

GFYS!

[Honeycombe8]

17. May he shrivel up & crawl into the hole he crawled out of. nt

[SunSeeker]

11. YES!!!!!

[MountCleaners]

12. Drink up!

[ellie]

13. THANK GOD ALMIGHTY!

[erpowers]

15. Omg So Happy

I was hoping Doug Jones would win, but I did not, at the end, completely think it would happen. I got an alert on my phone before the race was called. I thought the alert was going to say Roy Moore had won. The alert did say
Roy Moore was winning white women; colleged educated white women by 11 points. After seeing that alert I really began to worry. I was shocked and relieved when the next alert said Doug Jones had won.

[Orange Free State]

30. I read that too

And I was worried until I realized that there are probably about 50 college educated white women in Alabama.

[blue-wave]

77. I'm surprised to see

that he won college educated women. What can they possibly be thinking? Moore advocates repealing all amendments to the constitution after the first 10 amendments, known as the bill of rights. This would include re-instituting slavery and repealing the right for women to vote. As blinding and misleading as rabid racism can be, I can't believe they are all racist, are they?

[Hawaii Hiker]

16. I've been watching the NYT thread all evening

a blue check mark now appears next to Doug Jones' name...

Can i get a

[Honeycombe8]

20. Here's a WOOOO HOOOO for YOUUUUUUU!

[iluvtennis]

18. Woohoo!! I AM SO HAPPY! So glad I donated to the campaign and did the grassroots mail outs...

...every little bit helps.

Yay to the college kids and the people of color in the metro areas that came out big. Think it was a lessons learned where they didn't come out big for Clinton assuming that she would just win.

[Honeycombe8]

24. The video is perfect! And you got that right...the people of color in Alabamy showed up to VOTE! NT

[7962]

19. Trump can now blast Alabama voters "I told you to vote for Strange"

A Strange/Jones race would've never made the news

[Saviolo]

21. Basically my reaction from my Twitter feed:

Link to tweet

Everyone is way too excited that a competent politician barely beat a pedophile cowboy. But also yay!

[Honeycombe8]

60. LOL!

Yes...hard to believe that THAT'S where we are! But here we are. We won! A win is a win is a win!

[Butterflylady]

65. Yeah

but I bet a lot of them were republicans.

[klook]

69. LOL - at this point I'll take it (nt)

[MustLoveBeagles]

91. The Democrats are considered a step above pedophiles! WooHoo!

In all seriousness though I'm relieved by this result. You did good Alabama.

[mobeau69]

22. FDT

[H2O Man]

23. Great!

Recommended!

[PJMcK]

25. Yippee Yi Oh Ki Yeah

MoFo!

Go Democrats!

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Rivers of tears and joy!

Near perfect execution, Democrats can do it when given a fair roll of the dice.

[Amaryllis]

27. And there was massive voter suppression, so there were, or would have been, many more votes

for him without that.

[OnlinePoker]

28. Thank the 20k who wrote in another name rather than vote for Moore

I expect they swung the election to Jones.

[Dr_Pretorius]

34. No, I won't thank them, anymore than those who voted for Moore.

If there were 10,000 more of them, Moore would have won. Those are brainwashed people who simply could not vote Democratic if their lives depended on it. Because "muh guns, them gays, and them immigrants."

[iluvtennis]

70. Indeed.

[DesertRat]

29. Woohoo!

[Crowman2009]

31. F*** you Roy Boy and the horse you rode on!

[murielm99]

72. Leave the poor innocent horse out of it.

Sassy can't help who owns her.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

88. Straight from the horse's mouth:

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I AM OVERJOYED TO BE SO SUDDENLY IRRELEVANT

Link to tweet

According to Alabama state law, Roy Moore now has to eat his horse.

Link to tweet

[nycbos]

32. HOLY SHIT

[dalton99a]

33. An important, and possibly pivotal, win

[BlueWI]

35. Outstanding news!

Badly needed!!!

[IronLionZion]

36. Think of the DUers who felt we shouldn't even try in red states like Alabama

I am so happy for the good people of Alabama (F the bad people though). They are going to be very well represented in the US Senate by a fighter who will help all Alabamans, even the assholes who voted for the pedo. You'll see. The quality of life in Alabama is going to improve because of this election.

Kudos to the DUers who very early on encouraged support for Doug Jones to defeat Roy Moore because of policy, long before the teen girl stuff came out. That kind of early support is what really built up the chances of victory

[PatrickforO]

37. Yes, this has exposed Trump for what he is:

Con man, groper, lowlife, traitor, obstructor of justice, scofflaw, crook....

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[mr_lebowski]

38. F***ING WOOT!!!

[LovingA2andMI]

39. Congrats Doug Jones....

A Democratic U.S. Senator From The Great State of Alabama!!

[Saviolo]

40. Also of note:

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[mnhtnbb]

41. NBC just ran the announcement Jones

is the "apparent" winner.

[flvegan]

42. Hallelujah. This is big.

[marble falls]

43. Anyone have a picture of Moore's head imploding or Trump's latest tweet????

[Ligyron]

89. We could have done better than Perez.

[watoos]

45. Let's not fall into the trap

and not use Mitch's talking point that Bannon cost Repubs the election.

Shout it out, this was a rejection of Trump, he did robocalls, it was not about Bannon, it was about Trump.

[disalitervisum]

46. I am so humbled by this

Forgive me, fellow DU'rs I can't help myself.

[hibbing]

47. I'm shocked

The cesspool that is now the Republican party can still try to shove their moral superiority in my face and I will tell them all to take a good look at the people their party supports.


Peace

[Progressive2020]

48. Victory!

This is the beginning of a Blue Wave of Democratic Victories in 2018 and 2020.

We will work tirelessly until Trump and his criminal cohorts are thrown out of office and consigned to the garbage pail of history.

God Bless Doug Jones and the good people of Alabama who voted for him.

[mentalslavery]

49. This is a hanukkah miracle

light a candle!

[christx30]

50. Big loss for trump.

And despite a 5 hour old migraine, I have a smile on my face.
Congrats to Doug Jones! And congrats to the people of Alabama. Pumping the breaks on trump's circus train.

[Upthevibe]

52. THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[djacq]

51. Thank You Alabama!!!

You have redeem yourself. This is also a referendum on Trump.

2018 is coming. Let's put a stop to this orange clown.

[OnlinePoker]

53. Freeper heads are exploding

They're already talking voter fraud.

[Honeycombe8]

63. You think they saw that bus full of illegal "aliens" I shipped in to vote? nt

[sofa king]

54. I won't believe it until I wake up and it's still true.

But congratulations, Alabama!

[True_Blue]

55. Wonderful news!

[Miles Archer]

56. Had to stop by to give this a rec.

I don't have much to add to the conversation that hasn't already been said.

This was just wrong. Sometimes people have to be stopped in their tracks, rather than rewarded. This was one of those times.

Thank GOD.

[Silver Gaia]

57. WOW. I did not expect this!

It's awfully close, though. Whew.

[metalbot]

67. I didn't expect it at all

I'd expected it a few weeks ago when Moore's predictive markets were down at 30%, but with 70% even mid day, I was shocked to hop back online and see a CNN red headline about Jones giving a victory speech!

[Peaceful Protester]

58. Hallelujah and Amen!

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Martin Luther King Jr. : "...the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

This is what happens when democrats stick together, work together, and never give up!
.

[lanlady]

59. Sweet Blue Alabama!

Congratulations Senator-elect Doug Jones on your stunning victory

[BigmanPigman]

61. I just made a whole room of people very happy

by announcing this. Everyone at the Christmas party is a Dem (except for one person) and now they are celebrating this great news along with the holidays. YEAH!

[usaf-vet]

62. Congratulation Doug Jones

Now don't let them denied your seat until January. Demand to be seated NOW. Sue to force McConnell. They plan to cheat by not seating you until after the tax bill is passed with the help with Luther Strange (R) yes vote.

[ucrdem]

64. Hats off to Alabamians

And congratulations on a great moral victory!




p.s. I had faith in you!

Meet the Senator from Alabama who preceded Jeff Sessions

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029874336

[SergeStorms]

66. Amazing. I never thought it would happen.

Oh ME of little faith! Thank you, Alabamians!

[aggiesal]

68. I'm so happy for Senator Jones ...

But he only won by 1.5%

This after reports indicated he was leading by nearly double digits.

This means 1 of 2 things:
1) Either pollster are horribly wrong
2) Pollsters are actually very good, but the lead was so big that
the GOP couldn't flip enough votes to steal the election.

This also means we are going to have to work our butts off in 2018.
Races that are razor thin will be stolen by the Greedy One Percent (GOP).

Every race we win will need at least a 6% to 8% cushion or Dems will lose.

[Princess Turandot]

83. There was actually only a single poll showing Jones with a large lead (10%) as of 12/10...

it was from FOX; it gave rise to conjecture that they were possibly hoping to affect turnout by how they worked their sample. (As of 12/9, for example, Emerson polling had Moore up by 9.)

Even with that FOX poll, the RCP average of the last 8 polls (dated 11/30-12/10) was Moore +2.2. Without that 10% FOX poll, it was Moore +4.4.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2017/senate/al/alabama_senate_special_election_moore_vs_jones-6271.html

[aggiesal]

86. This article describes the poll methods used, pretty well ..

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-these-alabama-polls/

[dustyscamp]

71. I'm really surprised

I didn't think Jones would win this. All the people working hard for him and the people who actually went out to vote are the real heros here.

[murielm99]

73. So much winning, Trump.

We are getting so tired of winning.

[Guilded Lilly]

74. Damn, this feels so freakin good on about a dozen levels!

[neverforget]

75. A bright light in a year of darkness!

[Devil Child]

76. We are taking our country back one step at a time n/t

[Lunabell]

78. This lifts my heart.

Especially after the debacle we had last year.

[quakerboy]

79. Can I suggest this as another confirmation

that running a 50 state campaign, in every district, in every race, is a good idea?

A Democrat pulled a squeaker in Alabama, against a child predator. Its gotta sting for the Republicans to lose a senate seat in such a deep red state. More than sting, its gotta put some fear in them heading toward the midterm. But imagine what it could have been if the Democratic candidate had been running a fully funded, well backed campaign from the beginning. I see it as the difference between being just missed by a car as you were about to step off the curb.. and having a car drive through the wall of your bedroom as you sleep, demolishing your nightstand just as you were about to put the book down and go to sleep for the night. Alarming vs flat out scary.

[BumRushDaShow]

80. K to the f'in R!!!!

[laserhaas]

81. Fan...frigging....tastic

[truestwords]

82. Such great news!

Many thanks to all who had a part in making this happen.

[DeminPennswoods]

84. Howard Dean was right

A few weeks ago, Howard Dean was on one of the MSNBC shows and essentially said not to be surprised if Jones won. He said he's been watching Ala for a decade and it was slowly changing with more educated people associated with the state's universities and around Huntsville's science industry. It turns out he was correct.

[senaca]

85. Great News

Roll Tide.

[raven mad]

87. Because kid-of-mine worked so hard for Doug Jones,

I'm walking on nearly as much air as when Obama was first elected.

[Rhiannon12866]

92. Kudos to your kid! Job well done!