girls. the stunning epic victory for jones and his party was largely response to sexual misconduct allegations against moore. but make no mistake the outcome was also just the latest example of the political power of black voters. as well as the effectiveness of local activists who mobilized voting efforts and won. joining me now is legal and political analyst eric guster. adrian shropshir, bernard simalton and john hammond from director alabama group. adrian, i ve been reading through the memo that black pac put out, about the way that you guys ran this campaign. i think the sort of meta-narrative was doug jones ran a really smart campaign. the democratic party came in and supported him. the national media collapsed roy moore and that s how he won. but the real story is different. tell us how you were involved in the effort. i would say there are probably a couple of take-aways from the election.
so it s not just that these polls are all over the board, you have two distinctly different outcomes in polling based on methodology and maybe getting a little bit too wonkish here, but i think tomorrow we re going to find out which is the best way for you to poll people in alabama. and if i were to go ahead. if i were doug jones tonight i would be feeling pretty good because i think this is at least an even shot and that was not what he thought he was going to have when he got into it. fascinating. sorry for jumping in on you at the end. kyle witmeyer, political columnist with the alabama group. i know ewe guys are going to be really happy to get the national media off your backs for a while once this race is gone. thanks for being here tonight. thank you, rachel. much more to come here tonight. stay with us.
joking. she s not a marxist more european socialist. the book of american history, a day for each day of american history, today, pearl harbor, rosa parks, two days ago. other things, like the 50 greatest american movie, we get into a good argument about that. what did you put as number 1? i did a poll at dinner last night, they decided it was to kill a mockingbird. that was a southern group. a good alabama group. it may be. i would put that and it s a wonderful life. i m a little hokier, i actually putรง independence da i love that movie. i went to see that movie with bob dole. bob dole walked out, what should i say? say it s great. about americans coming together, a black guy, jewish guy. dole comes out, what about the