Doug jones for senate chances
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Republicans, independents for Doug Jones: The crucial voting blocs for senator’s re-election chances
Richard Hagedorn classified han själv as a Republican up until the 2016 election. The 67-year-old Gadsden resident says he voted twice for George W. Bush for president and cast his ballot for GOP nominee Mitt Romney in 2012.
Now, the self-proclaimed independent said he feels more closely aligned with Democrats and plans to vote for incumbent Alabama Sen. Doug Jones on Tuesday.
“For me, it’s just watching the disintegration of the Republican Party as I once knew it. I can’t hang in there with the direction of the party,” Hagedorn told AL.com. “The party left me. inom didn’t leave the party. inom voted for Romney, I held my nose and voted for Hillary because I knew who Trump was.”
Hagedorn said he voted for Jones in the 2017 special election because he believed the claims from women who accused Jones' Republican opponent, former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, of pursui
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Doug Jones’s win just vastly improved Democrats’ chances of retaking the Senate in 2018
Doug Jones’s shocking upset victory in Alabama — Fox News and the Associated Press have both called the race for him — has an enormous upside for Democrats. It gives them their first realistic chance of retaking the US Senate in 2018. And if they manage to pull that off, the consequences for the future of Donald Trump’s presidency will be enormous.
Once Jones is sworn in, the 52-48 Republican majority will shrink to just 51-49. This means that Democrats will have to gain, on net, just two seats, rather than three, to retake control of the chamber.
It might not seem like this makes much of a difference, but it’s an enormous help for Democrats — because they face such a horrifically bad Senate map in 2018.
Democrats have to defend a massive 26 Senate seats next year, while a mere eight Republican seats are up. And in addition to having fewer targets to
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What are the chances Doug Jones could do it again? Past elections say not so great
When the votes are counted and either Tommy Tuberville or Doug Jones are declared the winner in Alabama’s U.S. Senate race on Tuesday night, it will be the end of one of the most unique statewide elections in decades.
For one thing, the state has a Democratic incumbent senator - the first time that’s happened since 1992. But the words “Democrat” and “Republican” meant something different back then. The Democrat on the ballot in ’92 was none other than Richard Shelby, who switched parties in 1994 and hasn’t left office since. Also, 1992 marked the last time Alabama had a sitting Democratic senator face reelection during a presidential election.
Related: How Alabama went from a blue state to a red one
The political landscape has shifted since the 1990s, making it difficult to find direct comparisons for the current race. But one thing does seem fairly clear - Doug Jones is facing an uphill battle.