Roy Moore lost.

The entire nation rejoiced over the special Senate election that occurred this past Tuesday, December 12th.

For the majority of the campaign race, former judge Roy Moore, who has been accused of initiating a sexual encounter with 14-year-old Leigh Corfman when he was a 32-year-old man with many accusations coming forward since, had been projected leading the race. Up until the night of the election, the entire nation could've assumed Moore would have won the seat, despite these allegations.

But he didn't.

Democrat attorney Doug Jones accomplished the seemingly impossible by winning in the state of Alabama, leading him to eventually become the first Democrat the state has elected in 25 years. It was a huge win.

But it's not without problems.

The problem that was seemingly overlooked while the nation celebrated Moore's lost is how drastically close the margin was. A big factor to the results were the 20,000 voters that had cast write-in ballots, leading write-ins to have been 1.7% of the votes.

Jones won with 49.9%. Moore had 48.4%.

Yeah. You read that right.

650,000 people voted for Roy Moore. He almost won. The man who said slavery was the last time America was great, the man who said Muslims shouldn’t be allowed to serve in Congress, the man who said homosexuality should be a crime, the man who is accused of being a child molester, was almost elected to the United States Senate, with this information being well-known.

He was endorsed by the President of the United States, who also held a rally for him. He was supported, endorsed, and funded by the Republican party because they were more concerned with maintaining majority than who kept that majority for them.

It started with Donald Trump. "He's not what Republicans really are," Republicans would say. Which is fair. He's been a Democrat almost all of his life until recently. But then they elected him. And then, there came Roy Moore. "Roy Moore gives Republicans a bad name," Republicans keep saying. And although he did lose, 650,000 people still voted for him.

He lost by 1.5% of the vote, basically. He lost because of write-ins. He lost because of people who were not slaves to the two-party system. If Republicans want everyone else to believe that these two men are not who Republicans truly are, they need to stop funding, campaigning for, and voting for men like these. With an election this close, it's hard to believe that those were the only two bad apples in the bunch.