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Factor. it's entirely possible the margin of victory was so narrow many republicans were saying that while they couldn't vote for a democrat they were going to write in the name of a conservative other than roy moore. a total of 23,000, nearly 23,000 write-in votes cast in this election. back to you guys. steve: jonathan serrie live in alabama with the very latest. thank you very much. we should know by the end of this week, next week who exactly those write-in were for. i would suspect a lot of them were for luther strange. he is currently holding the seat that was vacated by jeff sessions. k...

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 you're his campaign to be running better than he did in '12. that's the level you want to see in that county if you're 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 write-ins? there was talk of a write-in. richard shelby goes on the sunday shows to say he wrote in...

Moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. >> moore quoted scripture as he talked to his sup porters refusing to concede telling them it's not over. this campaign insisting a recount is possible depending on write-in and military ballots but alabama state republican party says it's over. an alabama secretary of state says it's highly unlikely the outcome will change. our coverage of this historic election begins in montgomery. eric, how did doug jones get it done? >> reporter: well, dave, first and foremost, he won with a huge african american turnout. black voters accord...

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 didn't 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 couldn't vote for moore. and that was a lot of that was on the sex and his behavior. so i'm happy it happened. i am ...

Can work in mid-terms. the other element here is that candidate quality matters. roy moore was a uniquely controversial candidate and he all but disappeared from the campaign trail the final week or so of the race, only holding a couple of events. president trump of course tried to get in over the hurdle, but our exit polls found that even president trump is not that popular anymore in alabama. only about half of the voters here approve of the job he's doing, dave. >> that is president that one president won in alabama by 28 points a year ago. >> so president trump was all in on moore. remembe...