Page 5 - Write Ins News Today

Just the write-ins alone, you saw the presidents tweet mentioning that number, and what was actually a very gracious tweet if you think about where the president has been on commenting on some of these races. >> shannon: the g.o.p. certainly did not want to lose a senate seat. that is not helpful for supreme court nominations or anything else they have going on over there. but in a way, does this eliminate some sort of headache that they wouldve had to deal with moving forward? apparently the wo...

Ridiculous. 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-g...

But it overwhelmed. just the write-ins alone, you saw the presidents tweet mentioning that number, and what was actually a very gracious tweet if you think about where the president has been on commenting on some of these races. >> shannon: the g.o.p. certainly did not want to lose a senate seat. that is not helpless for supreme court nominations or anything else i have going on over there. but in a way, does this eliminate some sort of headache that they wouldve had to deal with moving forward?...

Mitt romney in 2012. so if you think the trumpification of politics, the polarization that comes with that, might boost moore, you want moore if youre his campaign to be running better than he did in 12. thats the level you want to see in that county if youre jones. >> we should note he did win that, he won that race, that state supreme court race, eke the it out by i think 3 points. but also interesting data there, one of the questions i think a lot of people have been asking is, what about wri...

Strange in the beginning. >> he kind of did i was right originally this wasnt my guy. >> but look does it change 2018 for him? yes. alabama huge win for democrats. you cannot understate it. roy moore was historically bad candidate. democrats did good work on the ground. if you look at the 2012 levels. but interesting part is 22,000 write ins that would have voted republican if there were a traditional republican on the ballot and they take a pass, and many are moms and married women. >> that you...

It could be three, four points, just looking at the projections right now. the raw 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 raw 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. i think eventually, you are going...

Bannonism or trumpism. you have 48% of the vote there. what happened was big african-american turnout, and some chunk of republican white women stayed home. i think shelby helped a lot with that when he said on sunday, stay home. i think there were more write-ins. and the write-in is amazing. usually when you have write-ins or abstentions. i didnt vote for trump or hillary clinton. 1.5% of the people in alabama went to the polls to write someone in. that was all republicans who couldnt vote for ...

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....

Coalesced and for the first time brought alabama to a place that atlanta and georgia, for example, passed in 1970. >> so you think what happened tonight, this is important, is for keeps, and put another way, theres no going back demographically? >> no, im not -- i know alabama too well to be that optimistic, brian. demographically, yes, there is no going back. and i think our feet are on the road that will take us in a different direction. but i think there could be significant bumps in the road...

There is something still about the middle, moderate republicans, moderate republicans, doug jones got 21% of them. barack obama got 1% of them in 2012. there is still something, to your point -- >> that goes to -- >> -- about matching your district or matching your state. about appealing to the middle. >> lets listen in at roy moore headquarters. >> you know, theres a law in alabama that requires a recount if the vote is within one-half a percent. that includes all the candidates that are on the...