Alabama’s long and strange special election for U.S. Senate comes to a close on Tuesday. Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore face off in their bids to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the remainder of the term. Moore is the favorite, according to the […] Read more »
Will Alabama defy the most powerful trend shaping modern Senate elections?
In today’s Alabama US Senate election, Democrat Doug Jones isn’t running just against Republican Roy Moore. Jones is also running against the most powerful trend shaping modern elections for the US Senate. That trend is a tightening correlation between the way states vote for President and how they vote for […] Read more »
Pollsters, pundits say Alabama Senate race impossible to predict
The entire political world is watching Alabama’s Senate race, but what happens Tuesday is anybody’s guess. The highly unusual nature of the election, along with the difficulty faced by pollsters, has made the race murkier than a cypress swamp. Recent polls show Republican Roy Moore leading Democrat Doug Jones by […] Read more »
Pollsters throw predictions out the window in Alabama race
Who’s leading in Tuesday’s special Senate election in Alabama? The race is so peculiar and has so many variables that some pollsters are reluctant to say. Rather than put out a single result that could be viewed as a projection in the race between Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy […] Read more »
Alabama Special Election Takes Place in One of the Reddest States
… According to Gallup data from the first half of 2017, only a handful of states have a greater Republican edge than Alabama — consistent with what Gallup found in 2016. Half of the state’s residents (50%) identify as Republicans or lean toward the Republican Party, while a third identify […] Read more »
What The Hell Is Happening With These Alabama Polls?
Somebody’s going to be wrong in Alabama. We’ve already urged caution when interpreting polls of Alabama’s special election to the U.S. Senate, which will be held on Tuesday. Some of that is because of the media’s usual tendency to demand certainty from the polls when the polls can’t provide it. […] Read more »