AL-SEN: Politico - Pay Little Attention to the Alabama Polls

[RandySF]

Roy Moore appears to have inched back in front of Democrat Doug Jones in the latest Alabama Senate election polls, according to the oft-cited RealClearPolitics average — a change in fortune from mid-November, when sexual misconduct allegations against Moore first surfaced. The reality? No one really has a clue about where things stand with Alabama voters in the December 12 special election.

For all the national attention and the millions of dollars spent to win the seat, there’s relatively little public polling in the contest. Only three public surveys in the average have been conducted since the Thanksgiving holiday, and odds are you’ve never heard of two of the three pollsters. And that’s precisely the problem. The most important and closely watched election in the nation is taking place in the equivalent of a polling black box.


https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/03/roy-moore-alabama-polls-274628

[Orrex]

1. I predict that he will win easily

That is no disparagement of the many Alabamans who aren't pedophile-enabling idiot racist fuckheads; living in Trump-voting Pennsylvania, I wholly sympathize with anyone who lives amid the cesspit of Red USA. Our own esteemed Senator Pat Toomey never misses a chance to placate his owners, and if it screws his constituents then so much the better!

The GOP wants Moore elected. Evangelicals want Moore elected. Moneyed interests want Moore elected.


I want Jones to win, but I am not optimistic.

[ClarendonDem]

3. yup

[Iliyah]

2. Jones being tied, slightly ahead is good news!

What I fear is the rigging that the repigs will do.

[Dr. Jack]

4. I think Moore will win but...

...from what I have been reading from political discussions online from people living in Alabama, the situation on the ground is a lot different than what you hear on the national news. A lot of people are tearing out their hair trying to figure out what to do/who to vote for. It would seem the cognitive dissonance of the situation is frying a lot of republican brains.