I traveled across rural north Alabama today,,,,,

[Cryptoad]

Madison County,,, reddest of the Red,,, not many political signs (to my surprise) but I counted twice the number of Jones to Moore Signs. I think the MSM and polling outfits are missing how pissed off women are. I believe Jones is going to win this thing.

[Legends303]

1. I hope your right

not putting much faith in Alabama myself

[LisaL]

2. I think they might be ashamed to admit they are going to vote for Moore.

[Cryptoad]

6. thats possible ,,,,,,,

but I think many will just not vote

[al_liberal]

3. Lightest red.

I live in Madison County and the Huntsville metro area is the most progressive area in the state.

[Cryptoad]

5. I said rural Madison Co

this area has many Gadsden flags flying on their own poles in the front yard. BTW, I think Metro Bham is more progressive than Huntsville,,, there is a reason Trump is always in Huntsville when he comes to bama.........,and i believe voting records results will back that up

[al_liberal]

9. Uh huh

[Cryptoad]

10. Sorry u didn't get it,,,,,,,,,

[al_liberal]

11. Oh I got it

[SCantiGOP]

14. So, the guy who rode through there

Knows more than the guy who lives there?

[Cryptoad]

19. Who said I didn't live there

Not only have I lived there since over 50 years, I am a duly elected member of the County Democratic Executive committee. geeez i didn't realize this was a pissing contest

[misanthrope]

18. Well, as far as the current US Senate race goes

In the runoff, Strange only won four counties over Moore: Sumter, Madison (Huntsville), Jefferson and Shelby (both Birmingham). Moore took all the rest including Montgomery, Mobile and Baldwin.

[Cryptoad]

20. You take Huntsville vote count out and see what u have....

[rocketdem1964]

15. concur

I've been a 27-year resident. Madison County is only half native and the metro area influences the surrounding area. So, while the report is good (amen), it's unfortunately not conclusive. Fingers crossed.

Added on edit: On the other hand, Mo Brooks is our idiot representative, so there is definitely an unfortunate red stain stretched across Madison County.

[Duppers]

16. I've a friend there too and she concurs.

There's quite a number of PhD' s in Huntsville area due to NASA's Marshall space flight center there.

[KelleyKramer]

17. Huntsville is more progressive than BHM?Hahahaha!!

That made me laugh out loud!

[Cryptoad]

21. Metro Birmingham is the only Blue County

not is the Alabama "Black Belt" area

https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/alabama/

[bronxiteforever]

28. Votes from the County

Madison County Alabama
2016 vote
R D. Trump
55.9%
D H. Clinton
39.2%

2012 Madison county Alabama
58.47% Romney
39.90% Obama

And isn’t Tuskegee the most progressive area in the state?

Couldn’t find Huntsville votes in particular.

[kstewart33]

4. Whoa there.

I grew up in Madison County and was involved in politics there in my 20s. I traveled throughout Alabama while working for the University of Alabama and spent some time in many different rural counties.

Madison County is not red by Alabama standards. Conservative but not the kind of conservative that you'll find in rural counties in southern Alabama. The major reason is that since the 1960s, many people from outside the state have settled in Huntsville, the largest town in the county, who are linked to the space industry and other technology. High tech now drives Huntsville's economy. Education levels far exceed those in most of the South as does median income.

[Cryptoad]

7. Rural Madison Co and Huntsville are tow different birds

[KelleyKramer]

23. Huntsville electing Mo Brooks is not red? Really?

"Whoa there"

Yes, indeed, whoa there

Ha hahahahaahau!

[kstewart33]

25. Never reach a rock hard judgment of a community based on one vote.

Look a little deeper. You might be surprised about what you find.

[fierywoman]

8. Thanks for the report/update: it's consoling.

[Thor_MN]

12. Voting booths need to have a big mirror.

Make the voter look themselves in the face as they fill out their ballot.

[BigmanPigman]

13. That is good news, thanks!

[FarCenter]

24. When I was in Huntsville, the hotel had a wired speaker with a small selection of German channels.

[kstewart33]

27. Not surprising. Germans gave Huntsville the head start it needed.

In the mid 1950s and at the request of the US government, Hitler's chief missile scientist, Werhner Von Braun and about 50 of his team of scientists settled in Huntsville to help the US with its space program. Von Braun was responsible for much of our early scientific leaps in development that climaxed with the Moon landing.

This work generated a good deal of the influx of tech people throughout the US and all over the world, particularly from Europe. That continues to a lesser extent today. I went to high school with children of the members of Von Braun's team in the late 1960s. They were all brilliant.

There is a sizable German community in Huntsville.

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Yes, H'ville even had speed limit signs in km/hr back in the 70's.

Still German restaurants. All the old von Braun team have died off, but lots of folks who worked with them are still around.

[Cryptoad]

33. Still have,,,,

a October fest oiut on the Redstone Arsenal........

[eppur_se_muova]

34. And in Cullman -- founded by German immigrants in the 1800's.

http://alabama.travel/road-trips/cullman-alabama-s-german-village

More than one reason for descendants of Germans in AL.

[Irish_Dem]

26. Does Alabama have a secure voting system? Or can it be hacked and stolen? nt

[Cryptoad]

29. In my county,,,,,

we have paper ballots that are counted by a machine, so there is that paper ballot back up that would help if any of the counting machines were hacked........ Not sure abt the rest of State.

[Irish_Dem]

30. That is good news. Hopefully Putin cannot steal it. nt

[bullwinkle428]

32. I caution everyone to take all yard sign and bumper sticker

reports with a grain of salt. I saw significantly fewer of those for Chump than I did for either McCain or Romney, yet the Meat Goblin did way better here in Iowa than the other 2. Clearly, there was an embarrassment factor at work. Half of his voters probably showed up at the polls wearing "Groucho glasses"!