More news out of Alabama today:
Democrat G. Douglas Jones has taken a five-point lead over Republican Roy S. Moore, 47 percent to 42 percent, as the two men vie for the Senate seat to be decided in the Dec. 12 special election, according to the lasted Big League-Gravis poll of 628 likely Alabama voters conducted Nov. 14 through Nov. 15.
“In the last week, the Alabama electorate has turned on Judge Roy Moore,” said Doug Kaplan, the managing partner of Gravis Marketing, the Florida-based company that executed the poll. The poll carries a 3.5 percent margin of error.
“Eleven percent of the participants said they were undecided, but of them, 17 percent said they lean Moore and 22 percent lean Jones,” he said.
In the Nov. 10 Big League-Gravis poll, Moore held his lead over Jones: 48 percent for Moore and 46 percent for Jones.
“There is a 7-point swing, but it’s more dramatic,” he said. “The amount of undecideds has basically doubled.”
More than anything else, this race was Moore to lose and he is losing it, he said.
“Can he win? Yes,” he said. “If the election were held today? He would lose decisively.”
Kaplan said Moore has not expanded his voter base.
“Moore has basically held his primary vote,” he said.
“That is not enough to win,” he said. “The people deciding the elections. The independents and Luther Strange voters, your suburban voter does not believe the Moore.”
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