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Alabama

DAMANgoldberg

(1,278 posts) Sun Apr 7, 2019, 11:17 PM Apr 2019

Entertaining and informative.

IMHO, the reason that the 50-state strategy is so important is that a candidate such as Doug Jones can appeal to enough good voters to win, and is just right for Alabama.

https://www.salon.com/2019/04/07/sen-doug-jones-on-the-lessons-of-birmingham-1963-christchurch-2019-and-donald-trump/

I live in NC now, but have plenty to ties to Alabama. I want to see Alabama join the rest of the union and leave the dark ages behind.

#WDE

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Long read with Sen. Doug Jones (Original Post) DAMANgoldberg Apr 2019 OP

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1. Alabama should re-elect Jones, but likely won't. But, opportunities do arise where Democrats