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THREAD: Everyone knew that Doug Jones was going to lose, but on Tuesday he got absolutely demolished, probably beyond anyones’s expectations.
Despite polling that showed a Tuberville lead of around 15%, Tuberville ended up winning by 21%, outperforming every single public poll. Republicans had a margin swing of ~22%, and flipped 11 2017 Doug Jones counties.
There was hardly any ticket splitting, with Trump’s and Tuberville’s maps looking very similar, and with both winning the same number of counties.
Jones also did terribly in the light red urban/suburban counties he carried big in 2017:
Jones also underperformed in the college counties of Tuscaloosa and Lee (Auburn):
Jones was also unable to stop the bleeding in the growing suburbs of Birmingham and Mobile:
While Jones was able to outperform Biden by 3% in Jefferson county, he still had a margin swing of 21% in Tuberville’s favor there:
There’s no other way to put it, this was an incredibly disappoint result for the Alabama Democratic Party. Jones even underperformed their 2018 nominee for governor, including in Jefferson county! Montgomery county was really the only place Jones didn’t implode in.
Luckily for Doug Jones, there is a good chance of him being AG for Biden next year, where he doesn’t have to try to win the votes of people who only elected him because he wasn’t a pedophile.
