Oh, OK, Alabama GOP. You just be you, one more time.

Roy Moore 27%

Mo Brooks 18%

Bradley Byrne 13%

Gary Palmer 11%



The Gadsden Mall Creeper is back. Yes, it is alarming, but not surprising, that Doug Jones is a bit underwater on the Democratic side, but baby Jeebus cannot be this fond of me that He would gift us Roy Moore for another go-round. At least, it will require us to hang with the good folks at AL.com again for a while.



Moore has 96 percent name recognition – buoyed by his tumultuous tenure as chief justice and his 2017 special election campaign against Democrat Doug Jones. Brooks – a high-profile northern Alabama congressman who also vied for the GOP Senate nomination in 2017 -- was recognized by 77 percent of those polled, and Byrne’s was recognized by a little more than half of respondents. Palmer, Marsh, and James all had name recognition below 50 percent.



Despite the sexual abuse allegations against Moore that dogged his Senate campaign, his widest lead among the potential candidates in the poll was recorded among women. Moore had the support of 31 percent of women in the Mason-Dixon survey, followed by Brooks (13 percent), Palmer (11 percent) and Byrne (10 percent.)



He had a much slimmer lead among men that was outside the poll’s margin of error. Moore had the support of 24 percent of men, compared to 23 percent for Brooks, 15 percent for Byrne and 11 percent for Palmer.

Ol' Jedge Roy ain't decided yet if'n he's gonna make another run, but there is a bigger story in these numbers, and it's mainly for the Never Trumpers in the audience: It ain't the president*. It's your party.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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