Post-election Primary Top Ten Summary
I continue to get a lot of hits for the various questions of the Top 10 Most Interesting Questions to Be Answered by the Primary Elections.
We posed the questions before the primary elections and re-visited them afterward. Latecomers to the party might appreciate a summary post of links to the post-election looks we took with the questions.
Click the links below to go to the original post-election discussion for that question.
Top Ten Most Interesting Questions to Be Answered by the Primary Elections #1. Who will control the Senate? - Revisited - What happened in the key races that determine who will be Senate President Pro Tem? #2. Are Roy Moore and his group finished as a powerful influence in Alabama politics? - Revisited - Amidst the post-election flurry of articles on this very subject, I’d like to take a moment to remind you who asked the question before the election. #3 & #4. Is Alabama Power ‘the big winner?,’ and Will money trump name-recognition in the Republican Lt. Governor’s race? - Revisited together - Two intertwined questions. #5. Is Secretary of State Nancy Worley vulnerable in the Democratic primary? - Revisited - This one was easy to answer after the fact. #6. How did the ALFA slate do? - Revisited - ALFA is clearly one of the most important and powerful political forces in the state. How did their slate do? #7. Is Republican AG candidate Mark Montiel a contender or a pretender? - Revisited - Not a hard question to answer after the election. #8. Who will be the most noteworthy newcomer among primary winners? - Revisited - Among the possibilities we named beforehand, we looked to see how they did. #9. Will the Democratic nominee for governor win the primary without a runoff? - Revisited - Interesting beforehand, easy afterward. Most of the observations about why this was an important question were in the post asking the original question. #10. Who is “one and done?” - Revisited - Who looked vulnerable to be one-term-only legislators, and how did they do?
FYI: I also recently took a look at how the slate endorsed by the Business Council of Alabama did and drew a few comparisons with ALFA’s endorsements.
