Southern State Shows White Male Democrat is About as Viable as Smallpox at This Time

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I would also add white MARRIED women to this vanishing group of Democrats. Anyway, here's what they have to say:

Roger Jones, Tommy Ragland and Mark Craig, Billy Bell and Jim Smith are all white male Democrats holding local elected offices - a categorization that now puts them on the endangered species list.
Men like them once ruled the Earth - or at least politics in Alabama and Madison County - but the atmosphere and the electorate have changed.
A local Democratic Party leader and three elected Democrats have their own ideas about why their numbers are dwindling. Tagging local Democrats with labels associated with the national Democratic Party's position on issues is chief among the reasons cited.

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Political scientist Jess Brown says the district's political mood has shifted so much that he believes it can be colored with red ink long before the voting starts on Nov. 2.

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Alabama: McCain Leads Obama by 20 pts

John McCain now leads Barack Obama 55% to 37% in Alabama. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Yellowhammer State finds that when “leaners” are included, the Republican leads 58% to 38%.

Date	McCain	Obama
07/31/2008	55%	37%
06/26/2008	51%	36%
05/27/2008	60%	32%
04/02/2008	55%	37%

Source: Rasmussen Reports

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State officials should move quickly to check out the shocking allegation that votes in Perry County were traded for $40 and a rock of crack cocaine.

Times have certainly changed. Politicians used to buy votes with a couple of dollars and free beer.

But beyond the sensational claims are broader questions about voter fraud in Alabama that arise from the June 10 contested mayoral election in Marion where citizens were supposedly paid cash and drugs for their votes.
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Alabama: Session Holds Strong Lead

Alabama Trends: Sessions vs. Figures
Date	Sessions	Figures
06/26/2008	58%	34%
05/29/2008	62%	29%
04/02/2008	57%	36%

Alabama: McCain Leads by 15

Alabama Trends: McCain vs. Obama
Date	McCain	Obama
06/26/2008	51%	36%
05/27/2008	60%	32%
04/02/2008	55%	37%

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Alabama: Sessions Leads by 21 pts

Jeff Sessions (R) vs. Vivian Davis Figures (D)
Jeff Sessions (R)	57%
Vivian Davis Figures (D)	36%
Some Other Candidate	3%
Not Sure	4%

Alabama: McCain Leads by Large Margin

Alabama - 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

John McCain (R) 57% - 33% Barack Obama (D)
John McCain (R) 52% - 30% Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)

Source: University of South Alabama
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 413 registered voters in Alabama, conducted from Mar. 24 to Mar. 27, 2008. Margin of error is 5 per cent.

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