Democrat Doug Jones Will Lose Badly in Alabama

And Here's Why

People who see an empty glass as half full continue to spout the fantasy that in the upcoming Alabama special election for the Senate Democrat Doug Jones is competitive. He is not.

1. Alabama voters don't just vote Republican, they hate Democrats who they see as minorities, or in other words not  real Americans, you know, white and Christian.

2. The African American voters are key, but they will not turn out. This is not a criticism of them, in Alabama they have been shut out of the governing process except for a few token offices. They get no value from sending a Democrat to Washington who can do nothing for them. If the race were for Governor they might see a benefit, but a temporary Democratic senator just does not help them at all. So why bother to vote.

3. The idea that racism has been defeated by civil rights legislation and the election of Obama is just not true in Alabama.

4. Doug Jones has no real charisma, he seems like a nice guy but not the type of person arouse passion.

5. Jones has a lot of money, but it is largely useless. No one in Alabama is ignorant of what Roy Moore is so the TV ads don't have any impact.

6. The Alabama Governor has said what everybody is thinking, in that she believes the women who accused Moore but doesn't care. That gives voters cover to also ignore the charges.

7. The admission by one of the accusers that she wrote stuff on the yearbook page that Moore signed has impugned the entire claims of all of the accusers. She put in a date. Were we the only people who wondered by Moore signed a yearbook in December?

8. On the plus side, a Democrat would not be expected to get 40% of the vote. If Jones gets the 43 to 45% of the vote  it will be a moral victory. Another name for a person who gets a moral victory, loser.