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He was very low key. he didnt jump on the roy moore thing in a craven way from the beginning. and he handled himself with dignity, but his organization built on the ground. there wasnt a democratic organization to speak of in the state of alabama, statewide, and he had to build and they had to build an organization to bring out the kind of vote that they brought today, and then the use of the obama robo call, governor patrick, cory booker, and others who came in late, of course, bakari sellers n...

African-americans are a reliable democratic voting bloc, and we are so often dismissed and our vote is disrespected, and the narrative around our vote is typically negative, and were cast as being apathetic and not voting. what we saw today in alabama is what you typically see in african-american voters. we are fiercely loyal. and when we are motivated, we come out and we can be the difference in an election. our vote matters. our vote counts. barack obama galvanized the alabama vote, the africa...

The past 24 hours defeated candidate roy moore riding his horse to cast his ballot. >> yes, indeed. >> sassy. back to our panel for what was a stand out moment, a take away from what you remember about this election result. >> as much as this was a one off election, it was a special election. you had pedophilia allegations. its not going oo be re-created. i also think anyone woo works on campaigns now has to add to the list of vetting questions do you intend on riding a horse. >> caroline. >> i ...

I would just point out, alabama is only a generation or two removed when a time when its name was tied to infamy, when it was tied to george wallace, when it was tied to about enthusiastic segregation. it is not something that alabamians are particularly interested in associating themselves with. that is why roy moore, and the past, was not only removed from office but struggled in statewide races and that is why you put the added part on about the sex scandal, he just becomes a no-go and i thin...

Republican brand. and youre right, he didnt need competition. its enough to have one race baiter in the white house, having another in the senate -- >> it was a very close race, and roy moore is kind of -- his concession was a nonconcession speech. he thinks theres going to be a recount. i think thats probably a bigger problem. again, all of the jokes aside, it was a very close race. i think the bigger point is probably if you look at ed gillespie, who was a great candidate. theres a problem get...

Numbers that we are looking at, it could be three, four points, just looking at the projections right now. the real vote total is roughly 9,000. we had 22,044 write-ins. you talked to chris stirewalt earlier about it. 22,000, that is double the difference. there you see the lead is increasing on the real vote total, 670 now. just looking at the map, looking where the votes are, it doesnt seem like its going to get to that half percent, not even close. more like its expanding and not contracting....

You can see here, its basically the margin in this race. i think, look, in the presidential election in 2016, there were about 20,000 write-in votes. that was also very high. a lot of people didnt like the choice then. a lot of them obviously didnt like the choice last night. the question here was, i think, it probably was where these were typically republican voters. a good guess is they were. does that mean they otherwise would have voted for moore? who knows. maybe they were close to voting f...

The two but actually gave doug jones the huge advantage, the win? >> well, certainly, it looks that way, shannon. one of the things that needs to be accepted from that is that the people of alabama were trying to make a statement with those write-in votes and they wanted to make sure that those votes were recorded and were documented for the candidate of their choice other than one of the two candidates that were listed on the ballot. >> shannon: its always interesting to me to see that data whe...

The two but actually gave doug jones the huge advantage, the win? >> well, certainly, it looks that way, shannon. one of the things that needs to be accepted from that is that the people of alabama were trying to make a statement with those write-in votes and they wanted to make sure that those votes were recorded and were documented for the candidate of their choice other than one of the two candidates that were listed on the ballot. >> shannon: its always interesting to me to see that data whe...

Numbers that we are looking at, it could be three, four points, just looking at the projections right now. the real vote total is roughly 9,000. we had 22,044 write-ins. you talked to chris stirewalt earlier about it. 22,000, that is double the difference. there you see the lead is increasing on the real vote total, 670 now. just looking at the map, looking where the votes are, it doesnt seem like its going to get to that half percent, not even close. more like its expanding and not contracting....