VICE News and HBO sent Republican pollster Frank Luntz to Alabama this week to talk to Moore voters, and to a person they believe the women that came forward to accuse Roy Moore of decades of sexual misconduct are all paid liars.
Nine women came forward with sexual misconduct accusations against Roy Moore. These Alabama voters think they were paid to lie. @FrankLuntz spoke to them on VICE News Tonight.— VICE News (@vicenews) December 9, 2017
(via @HBO) pic.twitter.com/dPcb1Ux652
Twelve conservative voters gathered inside a Birmingham coffee house Thursday for a candid discussion about the Alabama senate race.
During the frank discussion, some said they were voting for him primarily because he is not Doug Jones. But other participants dismissed the allegations against Moore and excusing others by reasoning that behavior now seen as unacceptable wasn’t a problem in Alabama decades ago.
The panel was compiled and moderated by Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster well known for arranging focus groups with GOP voters.
“Forty years ago in Alabama, there’s a lotta mamas and daddies that would be thrilled that their 14-year-old was getting hit on by a district attorney,” one voter said. “The women’s reputations were questionable at the time,” another voter said.
“There was still clothes on,” she added, dismissing allegations made by a woman who said Moore molested her when she was 14 years old. “As soon as the girl said she wasn’t comfortable, he took her home.”
Being Doug Jones, a Democrat, was worse than being Roy Moore, accused child molester. Period. Full stop.
How can you possibly reach people like that?
The one thing I hope Democrats learn from Tuesday, whether Doug Jones win by some miracle of turnout or not, is that there are tens of millions of American voters that will never, under any circumstances, vote for the Democrats.
They are lost to you. Stop pursuing them. Get the people who you can still reach and get them to the polls.
No comments:
Post a Comment