You come back to it, if they had someone who is more of an alabama democrat, he would have been fine. But on issue set after issue set, hes a democrat and thats a problem in alabama. I hate to tell everyone that. I just dont see how how big of an issue is the abortion issue . I think its a big deal and hurt him right out of the gate and hes done very little to overcome that. He hasnt looked for issues to find Common Ground with conservatives. Now, i do think one of the things ill be watching on Election Night is Shelby County in birmingham and thats where roy moore won 63 of the vote in 2012 but lost in the primary. Thats an affluent the birmingham suburbs, thats where people thats the targetrich environment for doug jones. If hes going to win, hes got to do well there. Hes got to gin up the africanamerican vote and comments that he made about slavery and harkening back to the days of slavery when we really had family values. And then, also, hes got to get white voters and those white
republican in alabama. kasie? vaughn hillyer, thank you. let s talk about what we heard from those women talking to vaughn. i kind of wonder if there hasn t been a pen due lum swing and when these allegations came out, a lot of times if the negative information, if you get it right before election day, people react to that negative information with their vote. it seems like we re coming around to the other side of that. timing is everything and the allegations are shocking and they re amazing. but as you can see, the people on the ground in alabama are not buying it. the other thing that is amazing is roy moore got more votes in the gop primary than the than all democrats voted in the democrat primary. 162,000 votes for him in a contested primary and 150,000 votes cast by democrats. roy moore is doing the right thing to win here. he s just going to lock himself
denials and what he is saying about these women? i would say yes. reporter: kasie, if roy moore wins on tuesday night, he ll have run by running a ghost campaign. they have little operation and far from a robust canvassing phone-banking operation. he s running on a conspiracy and has not had a public event since tuesday. this is the last weekend before the election. usually there s a big get-out-to-vote effort. roy moore is essentially riding in to tuesday banking on the fact that republicans will come out to vote him because he s a republican in alabama. kasie? vaughn hillyer, thank you. let s talk about what we heard from those women talking to vaughn. i kind of wonder if there hasn t been a pen due lum swing and when these allegations came out, a lot of times if the negative information, if you get it right before election day, people