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Support for roy moore despite the allegations against him. by at least nine women. but now, even his support back home appears to be getting the first hairline cracks. the young republican federation of alabama, a group of alabama republicans between the ages of 18 and 40, yes, 40 is young! announced over the weekend that they have suspended their support for roy moore. latest polls also show some real hesitance of alabama voters. two thirds of alabama voters tend to vote republicans and now dem...

Support for roy moore. latest polls also show some real hesitance among alabama voters. two thirds of alabama voters tend to vote republican but the last two polls now show democrat doug jones winning that race. and who knows whether polling means anything anymore in america. but that trend line is now suddenly showing the blue line ever so slightly above the red line there. that was before three of alabamas largest newspapers this weekend ran this shared editorial on their front pages. not just...

Never run an editorial above the fold. that will be their argument. >> does that argument work? >> you know, its really hard in any special election to poll. because in a statewide race in a special election, its all about turnout. its very difficult to discern who is going to turn out. i think there will be a lot of republicans who say im just fed up with this and im not going to vote. thats what the democrats are hoping for. it remains to be seen, are there enough democrats and independents to...

>> i wonder how many mes he doesnt know. >> now the three biggest newspapers in the state of alabama are calling on voters to reject moore in a front page above the fold editorial with scathing language. im going to quote just some of it. one here, a vote for roy moore sends the worst kind of message to alabamans struggling with abuse. if you ever do tell your story, alabama wont believe you, or worse, well believe you but we just wont care. i want to bring in now al.coms managing editor. thanks...

>> nbcs gabe gutierrez is in alabama. that is not the posture of the local newspapers down there in alabama which had front page editorial above the fold with an editorial to actually support the democratic candidate. >> reporter: yeah, thats right. the three three of the largest newspapers in alabama owned by the same company ran editorial over the weekend urging voters to reject roy moore. certainly the interview this morning with savannah guthrie on the show, lee corfman detailing her allegat...

Number two, how are those in alabama reacting to it? >> so, what we see from the editorial board and again, this is something they published above the fold, above their name plate even, that they find these allegations disturbing and there have been nine allegations so far. women that have come forward and saying that there has been inappropriate behavior on behalf of moore. that moore either touched them or groped them inappropriately. the board basically saying there is no choice at this point...

>> and for the country. >> we really just feel like the hope that the best outcome will happen and that god will take care of the state and for the country. >> now, alex, you mentioned the endorsement that the democrat in the race, doug jones, picked up today from a number of media outlets, including the birmingham news. as you can see, above the name plate, this is where they have put their editorial, kind of showing the importance of this. basically, the headline saying stand for decency, reje...

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Was disgusting, and we have a process and there are questions about how you sanction behavior before they get to the senate. >> there are democrats and people perfectly willing to say that roy moore should drop out and should not be a candidate for the u.s. senate for alabama based on the evidence they have seen already before it goes to any kind of an official investigation, and when it comes to al franken, democrats say lets wait for the investigation. >> we cant wait for the urgency of addres...

Doing -- >> shepard: have you ever brought it up? >> its two fold. sometimes things are on the top of his mind. clearly this is the president that he says it or not, watches a lot of television. fox and friends, morning joe. you can see him in real time, reacting to what is being said on cable news. sometimes that drives the day. im up very early writing playbook that comes out at 6:30. he starts tweeting 5:45, 6:00 -- >> shepard: yeah. too early. we need to stop that. go ahead. >> yeah that is ...