The Crazy, Unbelievable Alabama Senate Race Careens To An End

"Unprecedented" is a term that was thrown around a lot to describe the crazy 2016 presidential election. Now, the Alabama Senate race may be giving that campaign a run for its money.

The appointment of Luther Strange to succeed new Attorney Jeff Sessions had occurred under a cloud of suspicion, with then-Gov. Robert Bentley tapping Strange — the state attorney general who had been investigating Bentley for using his office to cover up an extramarital affair.

Now, the end of the race culminates not in Strange as the GOP nominee but in Roy Moore — easily one of the most controversial figures in Alabama politics even before this race — as the Republican standard-bearer who's been beset by allegations of sexual misconduct and sexual assault.

Moore looked dead in the water when the accusations — which he stringently denies — surfaced a month ago. Multiple women have alleged that, decades ago, he pursued them romantically as teenagers when he was in his thirties, including one woman who said Moore initiated sexual contact with her when she was