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    Alabama's GOP Primary Is Just a Preview

    Despite controlling all three branches of government, Republican voters are still angry with their representation in Congress.
    by Michelle Cottle Oct 23, 2017 5 minutes
    Source: James Lawler Duggan / Reuters

    Alabama is usually such a happy place for Republicans. The state is not merely blood red; its conservatives thrill to the culture-war revanchism that the GOP has been peddling for decades. (I know plenty of Alabamans—family, mostly—who have felt sneered at and let down since George Wallace failed to become president.)

    But then came this year’s special Senate primary, and things turned ass-over-teacup for the party. After all the money and effort spent on boosting Luther Strange (the guy appointed to Jeff Sessions’s seat when he decamped for the Cabinet), the prize ultimately went to the flagrantly batty Roy Moore. This despite Donald Trump’s taking his carnival barker act down South to sing Big Luther’s praises in person.     

    With Moore now polling a mere handful of points ahead of his Democratic challenger (in Alabama!),

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