is that I didn't have the chance to post a video of that song.

But, clearly, I'll take it.

Ahh, fuck it. Here it is anyway, since they still went 48% for Moore:

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The Washington Post had a good summary of the German, French, and British media responses. And while I think that, after Brexit and May's Faustian bargain with the DUP, the UK probably shouldn't be pointing fingers right now, most of Western Europe is as pleased as we are.

Alabama election result seen as ‘miracle’ in a Europe horrified by Trump
By Rick Noack December 13 at 6:28 AM
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‘I’m just so incredibly proud’: Jones’s supporters celebrate victory
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Supporters of Democrat Doug Jones on Dec. 12 celebrated his victory in Alabama’s U.S. Senate special election over Republican Roy Moore. (Alice Li/The Washington Post)

BERLIN — Roy Moore’s defeat on Tuesday evening may have come as a relief to liberal Americans, but in Europe it was taken as a sign that the United States has not totally lost its moral compass.

Last year’s election victory of President Trump, who is deeply unpopular across Western Europe, appears to have severely damaged the United States’ status as a role model in Europe. The defeat of Moore in Alabama's special election to fill a U.S. Senate seat was interpreted by many as a reversal for Trump and a sign that all is not lost across the Atlantic.

Relief in Europe over the Alabama election result was far from limited to liberal media outlets and was widely seen as a “notable setback for President Donald Trump,” as France’s liberal Liberation newspaper wrote. Its center-left competitor Le Monde declared the Tuesday result a “referendum about Trump’s political agenda,” and Britain’s Financial Times agreed that it was “a big blow for Mr Trump.”

That sentiment was perhaps most pronounced in Germany, where confidence in Trump has been even lower than in neighboring France and Britain. The center-left German weekly Die Zeit framed the defeat as “the miracle of Alabama.”

Writing in Germany’s conservative newspaper Die Welt, Clemens Wergin explained that the “victory of Jones shows that America has changed since Trump’s election.” Whereas many voters did not take the numerous sexual assault allegations against Trump seriously ahead of Trump’s victory one year ago, there now appears to be a growing awareness that defied partisan lines, he wrote.

“Many people in Alabama want to send a message to the world: America is still able to show a tolerant and cosmopolitan face,” wrote Jan Philipp Burgard, a Washington correspondent with German public TV station ARD.

European nations such as Germany and Britain have long considered themselves close allies of the United States, but leaders here are finding it increasingly difficult to work with a president who has repeatedly lashed out at them and is deeply unpopular among European voters.

Trump’s low approval ratings in Europe have defied partisan lines. Many conservatives, as well as liberals, have viewed Trump’s remarks during his campaign about banning Muslims, building a wall and pulling out of climate and trade deals as populist and divisive.

Europe is also struggling with a populist, right-wing resurgence of its own that has made electoral inroads in recent years in countries such as Hungary, Poland and Austria, not to mention a second-place showing in France's presidential elections. While the populist right remains restricted mostly to the political sidelines, it was encouraged by Trump’s victory.

Moore’s defeat was also interpreted as a sign of a revival of “decency” in the United States. Alabama’s voters “have proved that politics is not just about party interests, but decency and morality as well,” commented Alexandra von Nahmen, head of German broadcaster DW’s Washington bureau. (DW is funded by the country’s Foreign Ministry but operates independently.)

To von Nahmen, the refusal of the majority of voters in Alabama to support Moore is not only an electoral but also a moral defeat for Trump. “The Republicans’ loss lies squarely with Donald Trump. He believed his support for a candidate like Moore would ensure victory. But Alabama voters did not allow the President to get away with this amoral behavior. That too is a good thing,” wrote von Nahmen. That sentiment was widely echoed Wednesday by other major European news outlets, which called the defeat a “black day for Trump” and proclaimed a “red line for Trump-style politics.”

“Donald Trump chose to waste what little remains of his political capital on a man accused of being a sexual predator of teenage girls,” wrote Guardian U.S. columnist Richard Wolffe.

Whereas most reactions here focused on the possible repercussions of Moore’s defeat on a national level, one sentence from Democratic election winner Doug Jones stood out: “I have always believed that the people of Alabama have more in common than divides us,” Jones said.

His words almost exactly matched those of slain British member of Parliament Jo Cox, who died last year in an attack by a man with links to a U.S. Nazi group.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/13/alabama-election-result-se...

I've hammered Alabammy here a time or two, and obviously some of the same degenerates who were defending Moore just a day ago are now flipping the script to offer backhanded congratulations to Democrats for beating an accused child molester by a mere 20k votes. But never mind that shit. A Democrat hasn't won a Senate race in the state in more than two decades, and Jones overcame not only history but also an increasingly polarized electorate that was not exactly predisposed to support him in that particular territory. It would be neat if Alabama represented the tipping point in the "two steps forward" that Obama talked about a year ago.

I hope that the selfish, shortsighted GOP fucks in Congress enjoy the big victory of their impending handout to "small business owners". Because next year is going to be a goddamned bloodbath. Hopefully 2020, as well.

Btw, the margin likely would have been larger without the Republicans' disturbingly-predictable voter suppression tactics. There's almost nothing as reprehensible in this country as taking action to deny a legitimate citizen the right to vote. And there is only one party in America today who is so shameless and morally bankrupt as to attempt to silence very specific groups of citizens and impose their will.

https://www.theroot.com/alabama-election-one-black-voter-s-experience-at-the-p-1821237274

h. At least not the rural white South.

This guy was a:

- law defying (x2)
- homophobe
- racist
- misogynist

He would have won but for also being a pedophile/rapist.

People are going to be shaking their heads for decades that Jones only won by 1.5% and needed 23,000 write-in votes to beat Moore. The exit polls paint a very bleak picture on how voters judge information and perceive their interests.

Some narratives are just hardwired. Also, it depends on who runs against him next time.

Like most of the board, I was very pleasantly surprised with the outcome. It offers a me hope that the insanity going on today is the the first step down a much worse road. Rational people can come together and change things for the better.

Before the election, I saw a lot of "Please do the right thing, Alabama" posts on social media. After it was called, many people were celebrating. I think this definitely changes the national perception of Alabama.

Having said that, this may have been a "nowhere to go but up" situation. I'm not sure that the national opinion of Alabama was all that high to start with. The cynic in me is a little depressed that the race was ever in question in the first place, but we have to start somewhere.

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At night, the ice weasels come.

I’m sure many voted for Trump and would say things about Hillary that’d strip paint off the walls. But they would only go so far. Enough of them realized they’d have to look at each other on Sunday and live with the choice they made yesterday.

I hope everyone who took that ill-advised chance on Trump will soon come to the same conclusions Alabama did about Moore. You have to be fit for office. You have to be a functional adult. You have to be respectable and honest, and you have to be capable of speaking at a junior high pep rally without getting a boner.

Still, if I were running the Democratic Party, I’d let people continue to figure this out for themselves. Some Trump voters did the right thing yesterday. Don’t rub their noses in it.

This is Alabama
And a wheel is forgiving the road, the road
Now you're making music for beautiful people by the sea
Who don't need a song, need a song

Tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise
This is Alabama

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538 has Jones 15 points ahead of his benchmark in Lee County (Auburn) and 10 points ahead of his benchmark in Tuscaloosa County. War Eagle and Roll Tide.

Also, he was 21 points ahead of his benchmark in Jefferson County (Birmingham), almost certainly on the strength of suburban voters (because it wasn't possible to improve that much with city voters, I don't think).

Those are going to be the stories of next year's midterms, in my opinion. Suburbs going heavily blue and red state college towns suddenly being blue enough to make a difference.

Thank you, sensible people of Alabama!

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will do.

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