I believe the mechanism for Bannon's power is in who actually shows up to vote in R primaries. Practically nobody but energized people. IOW: Fanatics. The parties have largely turned their primaries over to populism. We treat primaries as elections now but it was not always so. This system is...
I think that's the nut of it. The big loser is Bannon. One of the commentators on the Tee Vee commented that if you gathered together all the R consultants a year ago and tasked them with finding a way to lose one of the senate seats from AL they would have been at a loss, but Steve Bannon...
He could've publicly called his opponent a fucking pussy for refusing to debate him, and also apologize for his indiscretion at pursuing that cold case of some un-Americans being blown up in a church. Better yet, deny it ever happened. Say it's fake news.
I suspect Jone's heart isn't in this.
He could say that since the US was punished for gays with 9/11, imagine what God might do to Alabama for electing a pedo to the US Senate. That could not only raise interesting questions in the heads of typical 'bamans, but draw a bit of attention from the media away from his opponent.
Perusing the Newz tonight, it occurred to me the media is falling in to the same trap that got Trump elected. All they want to cover is the crazy guy, whose empty podium awaiting their craziness gets more air time than the opponent does. Reduced to a cipher, the opponent of the crazy person...
Well, on one hand you have a Democrat who prosecuted some guys who bombed a church full of blacks...no doubt the basis for Trump's claim that he is "soft on crime"...and a "liberal", and on the other we have a twice failed judge with a penchant for 9th grade girls. Let's have some sympathy for...
Yes, kinda. It's an interesting question of FOX is the dog or the tail, but nonetheless they have discovered they weren't dealing with a naive 9th grader.
Roy is doing well in the polls now, "back in front" according to multiple sources. Raises an interesting question about those early FOX polls showing him flagging massively a week ago...when they wanted him to pull out. His campaign has been rejuvenated.
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It's comforting to see the prosecutor was smart enough to try to conceal the source of that tape from the court, but most unfortunate that cat got out of the bag after it was shown to the jury but before the verdict. Possible mistrial and new round of plea bargain negotiations.
Accompanied by an adult female he would have been all but invisible to the guards and pretty much everybody else. In the protection of teenage girls from sexual predators they are keyed to single males.