The polls remain close in the Alabama Senate race between Democrat Doug Jones, notable prosecutor of child murderers and child molesters, and Republican Roy Moore, actual child molester.
Make of that what you will; certainly, the entire nation is watching to see what decision Alabama voters come to. It will come down to a moral judgment, on the part of the state's Republican voters, on whether child molestation is more or less objectionable than being a member of the other party. For Alabama Republicans this is apparently a far tougher call than one might presume, and rest assured the rest of us will be judging them on their final decision for many, many decades to come.
For Democrats, the responsibility is to turn out to vote. A key part of being opposed to a child molester being put in high office is to oppose that person. To actually work to stop them, rather than merely state private displeasure. And to motivate Democrats who need a reminder of this, Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell has been organizing a final campaign push featuring a host of top African American Democrats; they’ll be stumping for candidate Doug Jones on this final campaign weekend.
Rep. Terri A. Sewell (D-Ala.) has been leading the effort to organize a slate of Sunday campaign events including a rally in Birmingham that is expected include her, Jones, [Sen. Cory Booker] (D-N.J.) and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), according to Sewell spokesman, Chris MacKenzie and a Jones campaign official. [...]
Former Massachusetts Democratic governor Deval Patrick also plans to campaign for Jones in Alabama, according to his former chief of staff, Doug Rubin.
That a Democratic candidate could have had any chance whatsoever at winning Sen. Jeff Session's old Senate seat was not a plausible thought a year ago. Now it could very well happen, thanks to the Republican Party nominating, apparently, the worst person in all of Alabama—a judge stripped of his judicial duties for violating his oath of office, twice, and who apparently became widely infamous in his Alabama hometown for being a serial predator who targeted teen girls.
Conservative Republicans will still vote for that horrible, horrible person anyway, because they have no remaining morality or shame, so the state's Democrats have to turn out in record numbers to put a stop to it. These last campaign events will hopefully help remind the state's voting and non-voting Democrats of just how much is at stake, and how close victory might be.