Yeah, it's Alabama, not some level playing field.

Hard to confidently extrapolate to the mid terms. But if there's any iind of swing then Republican majorities get lost. Could this even expedite impeachment if the party view Trump as damaging their hopes?

That a racist, homophobic paedophile who's mistrustful of the concept of evolution got such a share of the vote shows what a fucked up country it is. Still, good news I guess.

I await Trump's twitter meltdown over this with glee, he's only issued a (clearly written by some flunkey) polite congratulations tweet to Jones so far. We know that level of magnanimous dignity won't last very long.

There's hope for the US yet.
Let's hope this shift continues with next year's mid term elections.

The Americans have very strange voting habits, largely caused by the two party system.

The Dem win won't have been through many people changing their minds on party but people refusing to vote at all if normally Rep. It means it could quite easily swing back next time with a more agreeable (not exactly hard) candidate.

So yes, well done that small sector of Alabama for having the decency to stay home rather than vote for a kiddy fiddler. A low bar of expectation.

Those that did vote for him are mostly brain washed by "fake news", a convenient little mental device that can allow people to back horrible fucks and still pretend they are god loving, picket fence, apple pie patriots.

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... Those that did vote for him are mostly brain washed by "fake news", a convenient little mental device that can allow people to back horrible fucks and still pretend they are god loving, picket fence, apple pie patriots.

"Like, Obama's a Kenyan and the Clintons run a paedo-ring from a pizza place, cos I seen it on twitter, but all them bitches sayin' Moore's a paedo are lyin' hoes! And the ex-policeman and deputy district attorneys and all the others that say Moore's a paedo are lying' motherfuckers too! And what's wrong with shagging teens anyhows? It's in that thar BIBLE!"

It’s easy to simplify down to stereotypes of redneck stupidity, but the reality is that Alabama is a fucking huge place with a varied population mix. What I do think happens a lot is blind following of ‘the party’. You wouldn’t be surprised to hear people talking about how “This here is a Republican town, son.” … regardless of the current candidate. The GOP could nominate a houseplant and still be in with a chance.

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I’ve no source for this, so can’t vouch for it’s veracity. Seen it a lot this morning though. If true, it’s a pretty sobering reading of the voter data.

The Guardian has a very similar one, which is from an exit poll, so it seems legit.

Sooooo, we're looking at Race Riots in Alabama for the next few years then?

Apparently the voter turnout from minority (or non white, not sure if minority is still accurate?) was greater than both 2008 and 2012 when Obama was running. If that level of engagement from minority voters is replicated next year 2018 could be very difficult for the Republicans.

What kind of bell end rides a horse to the biggest national news event of the week then complains about the cameras scaring the horse?

It does genuinely feel like these people only exist to make the world a shittier place for the rest of us.

Insofar as it's significant for the Empire it's significant for all the tributaries, unfortunately.

I thought that was Skerret?

Aye, one of the reasons Tories are so fond of Brexit is that they want to give control of our media and communications freedoms to the highest bidders, just like their American sugar daddies are trying to. Anything to turn a quick private profit.

We do enjoy a level of net neutrality here at the moment, thanks to EU regulations on open Internet access.

We need to make sure those are carried over into British law post-Brexit. We’ve no guarantee they will be.

We’re lucky in that even in the worst-case scenarios, our ISP market is more openly competitive which means we’re less likely to be affected really badly. But remember how much of a practical monopoly BT enjoy … how many ISPs services come via BT lines … and you can see danger over here too. 

We’re beginning to see anti-neutrality issues in the UK where specific web services are bundled as ‘free data’ with phone contracts. Free use of WhatsApp with your Virgin Mobile contract. Free Apple Music with EE. Free Netflix with your Virgin TV package. That sort of thing sounds great, but it gives the service an advantage over any future competitors and, theoretically, stifles innovation in that area. Whether that’s a fair or unfair advantage is open for debate.

The bigger picture concern is over ISPs choosing to take kickbacks and introduce speed controls. What if your ISP allowed Amazon Prime to stream faster than Netflix? It would control your choice of service and control where you spend your money. At its most sinister, this can be used to influence news bias and win elections.

Yarp.

Just imagine: The Bear & Badger runs slow as a lame dog, but Facebook gets to download at high speed. Thanks Brexit profiteers!