I'm relieved by the Alabama Senate election results. But it hardly feels like a moral victory.

Last night and this morning, news headlines and talking points were all focused on Doug Jones’ victory over Roy Moore in Alabama’s special election to fill the Senate seat previously held by Jeff Sessions. Words like upset, shocking, and unlikely are being used to describe Alabama’s election of a Democratic senator for the first time in 27 years. Commentators are talking as if Moore’s loss is a resounding repudiation of President Trump and his agenda.

But as graphics from CNN demonstrate, this election was anything but resounding. Jones defeated a credibly accused sexual predator by the slimmest of margins. Despite allegations of child molestation—not to mention a long list of otherwise controversial and extreme positions—nearly half of everyone who voted in Alabama yesterday voted for Roy Moore. The county map above highlights the all-too-familiar divide between urban, suburban, and rural communities. CNN’s exit polls also reveal significant divisions across categories such as age, race, education, religion, party affiliation, and ideology.

Only in the cynical, winner-takes-all calculus of realpolitik is this election a cause for celebration. Though I am certainly relieved that Moore lost, this hardly feels like a moral victory. I just can’t get that excited about an election that could have easily gone the other way. And I can’t look past the 650,000 people—most of whom profess to be followers of Jesus—who chose a political agenda over human decency, not to mention the gospel.