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Really the actual vote totals. behind that are all the appendix with the write ins, is that right? >> yes, sir, that's correct. >> for the members of the board, prior to you all entering the room, we gave out some statistics related to the results i'd like to share with you. based on the feshl certification of results, the margin of victory in the election was 21,924, which is 1.63% of the votes. that went up from 1.54, based on the unofficial results on election night. the total number of votes cast in the election was 1, 348, 720,

This race. now they are also saying it is hard to believe that given what they are seeing right now in terms of the turnout that they will not hit 100% of their targets. >> alex marquardt. thank you. let's go over to john king. we're going to le learning a lot more about alabama. what would it take, for example, for these candidates to win. >> a little after 8:00, we'll start to fill in the map. one key point to make right off the top, number one, what's the percentage of write-ins? do a lot of republicans write in somebody else? does the bar for winning go below 50%? that would help doug jone...

Were important to their vote. there were also more than 22,700 write-ins, greater than the 20,700 plus by which moore trails. >> i felt a lot of people might possibly go down an alternative road. that is, vote for a write in or choose a write-in. >> the president to eventually endorsed moore says he predicted this would happen, tweeting today: "the reason i originally endorsed luther strange and his numbers went up mightily, is that i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. i was right! roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him!" the deck was misplayed, the way ...

Bring in politics reporter and sarah westwood is back with us. she's the white house correspondent for the washington examiner. as we go through all these exit polls trying to find out what was motivating the people in alabama, what do you see? what tipped him over the edge, doug jones? >> i think it's a combination of factors as eric was describing. it's almost sort of the perfect storm that doug jones needed to pull off this victory. you have the combination of the heavy african american turnout, you have apparently a bit of lackluster performance among republicans, some folks who just could...

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