As I'm sure you all heard about in the news or on social media, Alabama had a run-off election for it's Senate spot, which of course is following the appointment of Jeff Sessions onto President Trump's staff. Alabama is of course a heavily Republican state, as you would expect being deep in the south, and realistically, one would never expect a democrat to even have a chance in this state, let alone win it.

That changed in this past senate election, when Roy Moore ended up winning the Republican nomination. At the time this happened, not many thought much of it, yet soon after many people came out with allegations against Moore for sexual misconduct, more particularly child molestation, including information about how Moore may be in fact banned from an Alabama mall as a result of trying to pick up underage women. Moore of course, not taking these outside things into account for a moment, was the typical Republican candidate in the Deep South: very religious, anti-abortion, and in fact called Islam a "false religion". To give you an idea of his general candidacy and it's values, here is this video:

The Democratic candidate opposing Moore was Doug Jones, who is most famous for successfully trying the KKK members who bombed a church in Birmingham back in the '60's. He is a pro-choice candidate, one who is for equal pay and equal rights, and also has ideas about environmental reform that are in line with typical Democratic ideology.

Here was a great test of party loyalty, about whether or not a state that is considered one of the reddest states in America, would really vote for a candidate who, while being in line with party values, has sexual misconduct allegations that would doom most people in really any other job or line of work, and also just might not be that great of a guy in general. Frankly, the betting odds favored Moore to win, showing very little faith in Alabama to effectively condemn this man.

Yet come election day, people effectively told Moore- and the horse he ran in on- to shove it, voting Doug Jones as senator for Alabama. It was a tightly contested election, one that Moore refused to concede, but all conceivable and reliable data has Jones as the winner. First off, Moore needs to just go away at this point. Even President Trump, who isn't exactly great about admitting defeat in certain instances, admitted defeat on behalf of his party in this particular case. Overall though, we should be proud of the state of Alabama, one that proved that party loyalty, stubbornness, and history, doesn't mean everything. It proved that morals still matter in politics. I fully expect them to elect a Republican senator in Jones' place next term, and that's fine, because they showed that they still have a moral compass, which is more than many other people involved in politics. Good for the state of Alabama, black women in particular, for standing up to oppression and just general bad politics in preventing Moore from getting into office. Whether or not it ends up amounting to anything in regards to Dems getting the senate, or really anything at all, is irrelevant. I'm just happy we, as a country, didn't have to explain a child molester being a senator. Thank you Alabama.