alabama judge roy moore got himself nationally famous in 2003 when as a state supreme court justice he refused an order by a judge to remove a tenneco handmentless monument from the grounds of the courthouse. he was removed by a state judicial ethic s panel after that incident but tonight he s trying to unseat the current supreme court justice, chuck may lobe. look. results. chuck malone, 25% and roy moore, 51%. he s made himself a national conservative political celebrity during the time he was turfed out of office. fascinating races tonight, even if you adore the issue of whether or not it s newt gingrich s last night in the race for presidency. stay with us.
supreme court. you may remember the name roy moore. alabama judge roy moore got himself nationally famous back in 2003 when as a state supreme court justice he refused to order by a federal judge to remove a ten commandments monument from the grounds of the state courthouse. moore was removed from office by a panel during that incident. tonight he s been trying to win back his seat trying to unseat the current supreme court justice, chuck malone. look at the results. chuck malone, 25%. roy moore, 51%. that s with three-quarters of the vote in in alabama. roy moore has made himself a national conservative political celebrity in his time since he was turfed out of office. this looks like his path back in. some fascinating races tonight. even if you ignore the issue of whether or not it s newt gingrich s last night in the race for the presidency. stay with us.
you may remember the name roy moore. alabama judge roy moore got himself nationally famous in 2003 when as a state supreme court justice he refused an order by a judge to remove a tenneco handmentless monument from the grounds of the courthouse. he was removeds by a state judicial ethic s panel after that incident but tonight he s trying to unseat the kwurnts supreme court justice, chuck may lobe. look. results. chuck malone, 25% and roy moore, 51%. he s made himself a national conservative political celebrity during the time he was turfed out of office. fascinating races tonight, even if you adore the issue of whether or not it s newt gingrich s last night in the race for presidency. stay with us.
now as you know the polls just closed about an hour ago, exactly an hour ago, in mississippi and alabama. the latest results that we have from alabama and mississippi right now, in mississippi, nbc is declaring the race there to be too close to call. also a three-way race, 6% in with the vote in in mississippi, mitt romney and rick santorum 32%, newt gingrich at 29%. ron paul, fourth place with 6% of the vote. on to alabama, nbc news is declaring the alabama primary at this point too close to call. right now with only 1% of the vote in in alabama, rick santorum with 33%, mitt romney 32%, newt gingrich 27%, ron paul in fourth place with 6%. both of these races in alabama and mississippi not only too close to call but described as three-way races at this point. we re watching the numbers very closely as they come in, don t extrapolate too much from the very small percent of the vote that is in now. take those nbc characterizations of the race seriously but basically we ll watch
rick santorum has been declared the winner the mississippi republican primary in terms of the vote in mississippi. this is important to say. this is, most of all, a bad night for newt gingrich. let s be honest. its within a great night for risks but mostly, a bad night for newt gingrich. i want you to hear from rick santorum addressing his supporters in lafayette, louisiana, a short time ago. we did it again! i just want to say first to the people of alabama, you made a great difference tonight, thank you very, very much for your support. we ll compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure, to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate conservative to go up against barack obama and take him on every issue. now as good a night as this was for rick santorum, it has been that bad a night for newt gingrich. newt gingrich, essentially staked his ent