how much particularly barkley had a line, we ve got to stop looking like idiots to the world, barkley an alabama native, he was there for doug jones. how much do you think that s in the mind of voters about how alabama looks to nonalabamians? i believe that s a big thing right now. i really, really do. i think there are a lot of good people in this state who have now seen us through the eyes of the national media. and they ve taken a look at some of the goobers we put on tv the last month here to say just ridiculously absurd things. and they are embarrassed by it. they want to get rid of some of these people. and i mean, who could blame them? if you ve watched some of these interviews. i think that this is it s a real turning point, or it could be. all right, josh moon, thanks for joining me tonight, i ve appreciated you analysis throughout this race. thanks, chris. all right. as we look at the very early returns in the alabama senate race, the race is still too early to ca
long signs don t vote. i ve learned that lesson the hard way. i don t think i ve ever seen as many long signs for a candidate since the 2011-12 recall attempt against scott walker are. every scott walker supporter wanted you to know he was a scott walker supporter. in this race everyone wanted that tote actual on their lawn saying they were backing doug jones, not roy moore. i was in counties where donald trump won by 50 points and i drive a block, look up the economic data, and i d see five doug jones signs in a place that went strongly for trump that was very well educated, fairly wltsdy. it was hard to myth that. people who are voting for roy moore and even if you went to a deep rural area, you did not see the grassroots support that you saw for donald trump. but even for state senate candidates. all right, dave weigel who s got more frequent fliers than 9/11 in the business, thanks for joining us. tonight s no-win situation
possibly be the party of roy moore. this is more than about party. and i admire the republicans and the democrats and independents in alabama that have understood that there are times when you go to the voting booth that it s about more than one issue. it s about your identity as a state and as a nation. as doug correctly said, vocals involved in abusing children should be prosecuted, not put in the u.s. senate. i think a lot of folks understood that. i ve talked to a lot of businesspeople in alabama over the course of the work i have done, and they re for doug jones because they know he s going to fight for a good business climate in alabama. how do you go recruit businesses toî@ñ come into alabama when yo number one surrogate is roy moore? how do you make that sell to that company? that was a team that doug jones was hitting particularly down the stretch of this campaign. tom perez, thanks for making time for me this evening.
here. that s sort of the path that jones is cutting. from moore s standpoint, what you want is you want giant numbers out of the rural areas. here s where it gets a little interesting. we have one county where we ve got about half the vote in right now. otherwise we re looking at scattered precincts. in the northern part of the state here, it s limestone county, right here on the border. this is interesting. because when donald trump ran last year in 2016, donald trump got 72% of the vote in this county. when roy moore ran for chief justice and nearly lost five years ago, in 2012, he got 62% in this county. what is it looking like right now? roy moore running basically at the level even now. we ll see. it s half the vote in, aboutt % 40%. the question in rural counties for moore was, can he improve on what he did in 2012 when he nearly lost? because trump, this is the part of the state, when you re basically looking north of birmingham and take out huntsville, every other county here,
his in your face lawlessness that got him removed from the supreme court twice. then came the sexual misconduct accusations. the washington post reporting an allegation that roy moore had molested a 14-year-old girl. allegations of sexual assault of other teens followed. a deep, deep conservative bone-red state where a democrat has a chance to win a senate seat. josh moon the alabama political reporter joins me live from montgomery. josh, start on the dynamics of the last six week in the wake of the washington post revelat n revelations and how that shaped the terrain of this race. you know, it s funny to me that it seems like we had this whole setup here with kind of the cult of roy moore. you know, and these people who have been around for a long time in this state. these guys who he could rely on forever here that were going to