A third Alabama Senate poll released this week has Republican Roy Moore leading Democrat Doug Jones as his base appears to be solidifying as the distance grows since the initial allegations against Moore.

Louisiana-based JMC Analytics and Polling released its latest Senate poll on Wednesday morning with Moore holding a 5-point edge on Jones. Moore got 49 percent support to Jones' 44 percent.

The same polling firm had Jones with a 4-point lead earlier this month in a poll conducted immediately after The Washington Post's Nov. 9 story that included allegations that Moore had improper sexual contact with a then 14-year-old girl in the 1970s.

Moore has repeatedly denied the allegations.

"Sexual misconduct allegations against Moore have not materially impacted the race," the poll's summary said.

The JMC poll independently sampled 650 likely voters Monday and Tuesday in an automated landline survey. The margin of error was 3.8 percent.

The polls released this week have also been consistent with two showing Moore with a 5-point lead and another reflecting a 6-point lead.

Even as Moore has wiped out Jones' 4-point lead in the JMC poll and taken his own 5-point lead, the poll indicated that little has changed in voters' minds about the allegations. The JMC poll said 34 percent responded that the allegations made no difference in their support of Moore, an increase of 1 percent since the previous poll.

Another 29 percent said the allegations made them more likely to vote for Moore while 38 percent said it made them less likely to support him - identical numbers to the previous poll.

Support for Republicans have swayed in Moore's favor, increasing by 4 points since the last poll earlier this month.

"In summary, Roy Moore has regained his lost lead," the poll's summary said in closing. "While the race is not a certainty for him, the solidification of existing partisan preferences benefits his campaign."

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