Probably unpopular tentative opinion: I don’t think I’d be that upset about the special election getting rescheduled in order to get Roy Moore out of the race.
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Moore is genuinely terrible; we had sufficient reason to think he was entirely unfit for office even *before* we had reason to think he was a child molester. And there’s a meaningful chance of his being elected.
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We think that AL Republicans ought to be willing to incur partisan loss for the sake of not putting a reprehensible, bigoted, theocratic, Constitution-hating, law-defying child molester into the U.S. Senate.
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It seems to me we *also* ought to think that *Democrats* should be willing to incur that loss of a potential seat pickup for that important end, if it’s procedurally legitimate.
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I wouldn’t favor rewriting election law on the fly to deal with one terrible candidate. But it appears that AL election law gives the governor wide discreation over scheduling a special election, so that’s not an issue.
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It looks and smells like Calvinball and cheating, but it seems to be within the letter of the law, and sometimes that’s enough.
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This is the point in argument I have to part with you: Democratic norms are already eroding in USA so Calvinball, even if legal, should be discouraged.
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Why? Special elections are inherently a little irregular.
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Agreed. It's the rescheduling after primaries chose an unfit candidate that feels like Calvinball.
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