AL-Sen Open Thread
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Some good thoughts from Silver. The fact that this race is even close enough to warrant discussion is significant in itself, but I have a column coming out tomorrow on that theme and I’ll return to the point then. Enjoy Moore getting the representation he deserves in the meantime.
As always, however this turns out the lesson is that running on exactly my policy positions is always the best politics.
….[Erik] I saw the great Patterson Hood, frontman for the Drive By Truckers, play a solo show on Sunday in Portland. He is, of course, from Alabama. He said, and this is nearly an exact quote, “Roy Moore is a pedophile. And probably a goatfucker. But he’s probably going to win because” and here he gives an exaggerated shoulder shrug, “Alabama!”