Despite appeals to evangelicals, Moore loses Alabama Senate race
Roy Moore—known for controversial stances on God and government—was defeated by Doug Jones, an attorney who prosecuted a civil rights era church bombing case.
When voters went to the polls December 12 in Alabama’s high-stakes Senate race, many observers had their eyes on two crucial groups: Republican women and African Americans.
GOP candidate Roy Moore, who was controversial even before women came forward with accounts of Moore’s predatory behavior toward them when they were teenagers and he was in his thirties, called for a recount when results showed that Jones won with 49.9 percent to Moore’s 48.4.
Commenting before the election, Gerald Johnson, a longtime observer of Alabama politics and former director of the Capital Survey Research Center, believed “the urban-suburban vote,” especially suburban women, would be a decisive factor.
