# No common ground left to stand on? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 19, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-common-ground-left-to-stand-on/843639 "2019-11-19T02:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-common-ground-left-to-stand-on/843639/20 "2019-11-19T14:05:55Z")
> [@nate](#): > > Doug Jones won a senate seat against child molester by less than 1%. WTF is wrong with you people. Nitpick: You phrase this as though a significant number of white Alabamans opposed the pederast. Nope, relatively few whites turned; it was that and high black turnout that let Jones squeak through. > [@2018 US midterm elections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-us-midterm-elections/801125/176): > > … > > White men with no college voted for Moore over Jones, 79% to 19%. > White women with no college voted for Moore over Jones, 73% to 25%. > > That’s right. **Uneducated white [Southern Men](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVRxdPWV3RM) preferred the child molester over the Democrat by more than a 4-to-1 margin.** Even among uneducated white women the margin was almost 3-to-1. > > Senator Doug Jones, it will be recalled, was the prosecutor(\*) who finally sent Ku Klux Klansman Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr to prison 38 years after he murdered four black girls (and injured 22 others) in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of 1963. > > (\* Jones was still a U.S. Prosecutor in 2001 but had to resign when the GOP took over. I guess he immediately went to work for the State of Alabama where murder of black people was, by then, a crime.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-common-ground-left-to-stand-on/843639)._