voting. that s of voters, right. i am a little conflicted on this, and i think chris is right and i think we are making a similar fight about why this is difficult to extrapolate from whatever the result is going to be. i think, you know, it s unfair to alabama, who, you know, folks don t want to be caricatures for views that may have defined the state decades ago, and unfortunately, and roy moore, given the things he said that caricature is applying to him and his wife given to some of the things they said publicly, and we can go through that. with all of the energy in the country, with the democratic party, anti-trump and so forth, it s a test of how democrats can mobilize. this is a big deal election in the senate, and all the national leaders have been focussed on it, and i think it s hard because democrats are not used to turning out in big numbers and have not had a close race
institution of the senate, that he has done things and believes things that disqualify him, and people may not look at the substance of those things. they may want to discredit the women that accused roy moore of misconduct, or, you know, look aside as his wife uses textbook anti-semitism to defend their views about jews, and say, no, we are just going to vote on the fact that this is a strong conservative who is against abortion rights and is a christian whom we can really put our faith in. what is true about the stakes in the election is it has become a proxy fight, every major political figure from both parties is involved in trying to get out the vote in this state and what is going to be a low turn-out election, one that will absolutely favor roy moore. the republican party is torn
i was in public life for 30 years and i owned a modeling company, and people were chasing him down the street all his life and yet there was never a single allegation both public or private against him in 30 years except how do you know? well, we know there was never one made public. there was never one made public until two weeks before the election. why would they be made public if he has never run before? so many people came out and made allegations, and he had been running for president for two years and had announced he was thinking of running and all the allegations come out two weeks before? some of them are people like one claimed she was accosted by him in the middle of the ball game at a charity event. he s like ice. he s not grabbing people or touching. he s shaking and being very
daniel wilson, the pastor here at first baptist right outside of birmingham, he s comfortable addressing social and morally issues from the pulpit who he feels are rooted in biblical scripture. this morning as we approach the christmas season, he reminded his congregation that jesus was once an unborn child in mary s womb. that sermon made it clear for me, it s hard to discern where religion ends and politics begin. abhor that which is evil and that s roy moore, appealing to his constituents, but not all of them are convinced. i m going to sit this one out. bill is a life-long republican and an evangelical christian, but he won t be voting for his party s candidate in alabama s december 12th special election. no state has a higher percentage of christians among them than alabama, according to pew
with just a bit more than a week left until the special election all eyes in washington are on a critical senate race in alabama. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell changed his tune today on the embattled senate republican roy moore. last month he said he believed roy moore s accusers who said he pursued relationships with them when they were teenage girls and he was in his 30s. then mcconnell said that moore should step down. now he says it s up to the voters. listen to this. i think we re going to let the people of alabama decide a week from tuesday who they want to send to the senate and then we ll address the matter appropriately. do you believe the judge moore should be in the senate? i m going to let the people of alabama make the call. this election has been going on a long time.