An Alabama Senate poll released late Tuesday afternoon indicates that Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore are tied.

It's perhaps a stunning development given the state's recent overwhelming Republican lean as well as three previous Senate polls have indicated solid leads for Moore.

Fox News conducted the poll.

"This race exemplifies the difficulty the Republican Party has now," Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who conducts the Fox News Poll with Democrat Chris Anderson, said in the poll story on the Fox News website.

"There is an element of the party that has had it with the establishment, had it with politics as usual, had it with political correctness. The fissure within the party means divisive primaries, controversial candidates, and hard choices for GOP voters once the general election rolls around."

The poll had both Jones and Moore with 42 percent support from participants while 11 percent of those surveyed declared themselves to be undecided.

That broke down to poll participants voting 39 percent for each candidate if they had to vote today. A follow-up question asking which way a participant might be leaning garnered each candidate another 3 percent of support.

The poll was conducted Oct. 14-16 with live interviews of 801 voters. Of the 801 participants, 372 were reached by landline and 429 by cell phone. The poll's margin of error was 3.5 percent.

Fox News conducted the poll under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research and Shaw & Company Research.

The Dec. 12 election between Jones and Moore holds lukewarm interest to those surveyed - 36 percent said they were "somewhat" interested while 53 percent said they were either "extremely" or "very" interested.

Of those who supported Jones, 35 percent cited party loyalty to the Democrats and 32 percent for opposing Moore.

For those supporting Moore, 41 percent cited party loyalty to the Republicans and 20 percent to Christian values/beliefs.

Of those who "strongly" supported Jones or Moore, 47 percent said Jones and 48 percent said Moore.

Meanwhile, support for President Trump dipped under 50 percent, according to those surveyed. Trump received a 48 percent approval rating and 47 percent unfavorable.

Of those surveyed, 47 percent identified as Republicans, 37 percent as Democrats and 16 percent as independent/other.

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