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Bartender Woody Boyd winning a seat on the Boston City Council.

 

I cant believe the dipwads on here bitching about how its a hollow victory because Alabama is so red. pathetic and sad

 

Actually, Southwest is maybe the best airline for fliers with nut allergies. Call them two days ahead of time and they'll make note on your account. You print out a special notice with your boarding pass and -- after being allowed to pre-board (for no extra charge) -- you give the slip to a flight attendant. No peanuts will be served on that flight.

They also let the allergy sufferer's plus-one pre-board as well, which is why I know this routine so well.

 

Strange lost 262K to 218K. 54.6-45.4. Moore carried every County but 4.

Strange carried Birmingham(Jefferson county) by 9K, Madison County by 1300, Shelby County by 2500 and Sumter county by 110 votes (570 total votes)

With Trump’s endorsement, or without it, Strange would have won with 60% of the vote, minimum. Even as a referendum onTrump, Strange would have won. Alabama republican primary voters didn’t know his predilections towards immature females, but they knew and approved of his ecclesiastical law as the Supreme Law of the Land, his positions on homosexuals, abortion, immigration, and government were roundly approved by the voters. Their views on immigration and government are mainstream republican opinions. Abortion and homosexual are conservative main stream opinions. Senator Jones will be a 1 term Senator and Alabama will go back to being a Bright Red State, whose largest employers are the State of Alabama, State Universities in Alabama, Hospitals and the US Military.
The only private, for profit,employers in the top 20 in Alabama are Russell AthleticApparel, Alabama Power Company, a Honda Manufacturing Plant, a restaurant supply company and a pipe wholesaler,and together they employ less than 20K people, compared with the 80K who work for the DOD and the 80K who work for Universities and hospitals. Add in the public schools,law enforcement and fire departments and you’ll find that Alabama is a not much more than a 3rd world country where the government controls much of the jobs.

 

I watched that episode last night.

 

That's a fair point, though Spirit's structure is so different than the other carries than I'm not sure how the search sites can better account for that up front.

 

Not sure if we have a specific gun / missile control thread, so I'll place this here:

I’m a Proud Nuclear-Missile Owner

 

Fox & Friends: Roy Moore’s Loss ‘Not a Referendum on Trump’ But Harvey Weinstein

Fox & Friends was in full spin-mode the morning after Democrat Doug Jones won the special Senate election in the deep-red state of Alabama, leading host Ainsley Earhardt to break-out one of the hottest post-election take yet.

When considering whether or not the race’s results were demonstrative of a rejection of President Donald Trump, Earhardt claimed alleged sexual predator Roy Moore’s loss was actually “a referendum on Harvey Weinstein.”

 

Trying to diminish last night's victory is sour grapes IMHO.

The GOP candidate was the worst possible candidate? That's on the GOP voters who made their choice in the primary.

I give Ala voters credit for voting for the better candidate, the one with the most integrity, the one who's done the most to make Ala a better place to live.

 

HeyAbbott-
Alabama is a 'dependent' state. It is a mooch. It gets more than three dollars back from the federal coffers for every one dollar it contributes.



There are some good hospitals in Birmingham, but Alabama offers very little to the country materially or culturally.
Its backward ways are not to be tolerated by a civilized people.

 

A terminally flawed candidate running against someone who brought to justice the perpetrators of one of the state's most notorious crimes. The victor owes the win to write-ins and people who stayed home, and a segment of his voters who outperformed their turnout even when Obama was on the ballot. And still it was a 1.5 percent margin, less than the number of write-in votes. I think Alabama is the same state it was yesterday and last week, I'm not holding out hope that this one win "changes everything" - but I am happy that there are many people in that state who finally saw a candidate they voted for win statewide and hope it encourages them to stay active. Participation matters.

 

Not sure exactly what last night means for 2018. It’s certainly a good night for Dems.

Wanted to respond to a good post by @exmediahack from this morning, but that pop up thing keeps derailing me.

Basically, 99 percent of the time if the economy is good, it’s good news for the party in power. Not sure that will be true this time.

How many working class voters who broke for Trump really care about a booming stock market? Do they feel that? Are their lives better? And the economy in general hasn’t changed much in the last few years, despite how Trump spins it.

Dems definitely need a strong message and need to get back to their roots in 2018. No question.

But this is an energized Dem electorate. Repudiating Trump is a huge movement.

Big takeaway for me from last night is Trump’s approval rating is 48 percent in bright red Bama.

That number is far worse in other areas that will be voting in 2018. And that’s not a good sign for the GOP in the midterms.