re: Alabama voters… who y’all supporting for ‘guvnuh’ ?

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And you are why we will end up with Ivey again. Tim James is a politician but at least seems he will serve what the people of Alabama want. The “Lew” guy as you mentioned has no shot of winning, only thing he will do is pull votes from the real Ivey contenders.

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This mentality is why we wound up with Mitt and McCain.

You vote for what you believe. If you vote for what's "strategic", 9 times out of 10 you're just a patsy.

Aside from family members who still live in the state, I really have no strong opinion other than this: it continues to confound me how a state with so many wonderful people in it can consistently elect such truly awful politicians.

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So you think Ivey is the answer? She’s proven over and over again she doesn’t care what the people want, only the people lining her pockets. She has and will again refuse to debate because she has the money behind her and hopes you idiots think her southern accent makes her “one of y’all”.

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No, I do not. But what makes you think a son of a pretty useless Governor is his own right, who has basically gotten fat off state money (which is largely federal money) in his private business dealings is going to be a positive change? Because he runs silly ads about drag queens?

Alabama's problem is that our entire economy at every level depends on federal spending. Half the state is only steps from a third world country. The other half will collapse the second the fed stops printing. I don't think James is going to be the guy doing anything about that. I'm not sure any of them would, but at least Burdette understands the problem of lobbyists in state politics.

No we haven't.

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The state of Alabama has been floating on a sea of federal dollars for 20 years thanks to Shelby.

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...and that's a bad thing?

I'm voting for Lew Burdette.

The other candidates are trying out clown each other. Tim won't be any different than Kay. His campaign is full of former ALGOP and DC establishment. Lindy is just propped up by millions of dollars. I'm also convinced Kay Ivey is in worse shape than Joe Biden. You never see her anywhere that isn't a well staged ribbon cutting.

I don't doubt that Kay Ivey is at 50% in the polls, but you would think at that number you'd see a lot of die hard Kay Ivey supporters but you don't. People just tolerate her because she hasn't had a scandal.