It's cheering that Alabama has shown that the South is not completely mad; on the other hand, it's a little depressing to see the racial divide in the voting pattern*:
Well, how depressing it must have been for Obama to get just 15% of the white vote there! While today's result is much more encouraging, 70% of white voters preferred Moore?
It's still a worry.
* that's from the Washington Post exit poll analysis, which cuts the results up in many interesting ways.
2 comments:
Moore was always a bad candidate however the allegations made him worse. however given this why was it was so close.
Nate Silver has an interesting perspective on the result today.
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