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  Reason, fear and the politics of hysteria

  By John J. Hopkins | Tuesday, Dec 26, 2017 @ 10:29am

  The election for the U.S. Senate seat in Alabama is now history. Democrat Doug Jones narrowly defeated Republican Roy Moore by a margin of 2 percent, the exact amount of write-in votes filed on behalf of alternative GOP candidates. While the results may have been surprising to some, it certainly is not an omen for the future, but more of aberration.

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