Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones are locked in a heated race for the U.S. Senate seat. Here are the top issues, according to data from 55 of Alabama's 67 counties. lgore@al.com

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What are the top issues in the race?

Using Google data, we can see the top-searched issue in almost every Alabama county when it comes to the U.S. Senate race in Alabama. The data covers five topics: immigration, crime, sexual harassment, abortion and healthcare. There wasn't enough search data to determine the top issue in 12 counties, but we can look at the others to get an idea of what people are most concerned about.

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Immigration

Only one county has immigration as its top concern – Marshall County in northeast Alabama. Thirty-three percent of the Senate-related searches in Marshall County were related to immigration.

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This county searched for crime-related issues more than any other

Google’s data map doesn’t just list topics, it also charts places with higher search-interest in particular areas. Crime was the top-searched issue statewide, but nowhere more so than Washington County, where 68 percent of the Senate-related queries dealt with that topic.

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Is crime the top issue?

Crime was the top-rated Senate-related search in 34 Alabama counties. The topic was of most interest to those in Lowndes, Geneva, Dale, Sumter and Escambia counties, where 55, 53, 53, 51 and 49 percent of searches, respectively, in the Moore/Jones race involved the topic of crime.

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Carol Robinson | crobinson@al.com

Where does crime top Senate searches?

Calhoun County – 48 percent

Randolph County - 46 percent

Coosa County - 46 percent

St Clair County - 45 percent

Franklin County - 45 percent

Coffee County - 44 percent

Hale County - 44 percent

Chambers County - 44 percent

Chilton County - 44 percent

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Carol Robinson | crobinson@al.com

Where does crime top Senate searches?

Pike County - 43 percent

Elmore County - 43 percent

Baldwin County - 42 percent

Bibb County - 42 percent

Dallas County - 41 percent

Walker County - 41 percent

Mobile County - 40 percent

Morgan County - 40 percent

Colbert County - 40 percent

Jefferson County - 40 percent

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Where does crime top Senate searches?

Henry County - 39 percent

Houston County - 38 percent

Lawrence County - 38 percent

Shelby County - 38 percent

Lee County - 37 percent

Madison County - 37 percent

Tuscaloosa County - 36 percent

Blount County - 35 percent

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Healthcare is another hot topic

Healthcare follows crime in the list of most-searched topics in Alabama’s Senate race. That’s especially true in Marengo County, where a whopping 62 percent of Senate-related searches have to do with healthcare.

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Where does healthcare top Senate searches?

Monroe County – 48 percent

Limestone County - 48 percent

Covington County - 43 percent

Russell County - 42 percent

Butler County - 42 percent

Jackson County - 42 percent

Marion County - 42 percent

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Where does healthcare top Senate searches?

Jackson County - 42 percent

Barbour County - 41 percent

Clarke County - 41 percent

Autauga County - 41 percent

Tallapoosa County - 38 percent

Etowah County - 37 percent

Cullman County - 37 percent

Winston County – 33 percent

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Split decisions

There are four counties where Senate-related searches are evenly divided between crime and healthcare:

Cherokee County – 40 percent

Montgomery County – 36 percent

Macon County – 34 percent

DeKalb County – 32 percent

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Counties in question

There wasn’t enough Google data to have search results in 12 counties: Choctaw, Greene, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Bullock, Clay, Cleburne, Lamar, Fayette, Pickens, Wilcox and Perry.

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The topics that aren't generating as much interest

Abortion ranked low on the list of most search-data related to the Alabama Senate race, except in Coosa County, where it followed crime as the second-most prevalent topic for inquiries. Forty percent of Senate-related searches in Coosa County were related to abortion. The topic has been a focus in the race, with Democrat Doug Jones saying he favors a woman’s right to choose and Republican Roy Moore speaking out against abortion.

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The topic generating the least interest

Sexual harassment was the least-searched of all Senate-related topics, falling below 6 percent in every county. The results follow a growing emphasis on the problem of sexual harassment nationwide and as Moore has been accused of having improper sexual contact with teenage girls in the 1970s.

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