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These are the Alabama groups, ideas and individuals who won the biggest on election day
Everyone's seen who won the races, but now that the dust has settled, here's a deeper look at Alabama's biggest winners this election cycle.
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Study reveals how much weight your vote carries in Alabama
Congratulations everyone, you did it. It probably didn't seem possible, but you survived another election cycle. Enjoy the lack of political ads while you...
AEA spends roughly $20 million of teachers’ money on disastrous election strategy
If June 4, 2014, the day after Alabama's Primary Elections, was considered "rock bottom" for the Alabama Education Association (AEA), its embattled leader, Henry...
Congrats, Alabama, you are the biggest winner in the GOP takeover of the Senate (Here’s why)
Shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday night it became clear that Republicans would take the majority in the U.S. Senate, topping off a massive...
ALGOP Chairman alleges ‘appalling, un-American’ ballot mishandling in Montgomery
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama Republican Party was notified late this afternoon that ballots at two polling locations in House Districts 77 and 78...
Data shows voting in Alabama tends to be quick, but how’s your experience been today?
People don't vote for many different reasons, but a consistent excuse is that voting just takes too much time. During the 2012 election, the...
Simple math is the storyline worth watching on Election Day in Alabama
There's very little drama at the top of the ticket this year in Alabama, but that doesn't mean there isn't a storyline worth watching.
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9 quotes that will inspire you to go vote today
With a price tag of roughly $3.67 billion dollars, the 2014 elections are going down in history as the most expensive midterms in American...
‘Put on your best underwear!’ — One Alabama candidate’s bizarre challenge to voters
Alabama is something of a Petri dish for outlandish politicians, bizarre campaign moments and scratch-your-head political theater. Sometimes it seems like the Yellowhammer State...
Tucker Carlson: Sessions is the most popular person in Alabama ‘except maybe Nick Saban’
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) will cruise to re-election on Tuesday as the only U.S. Senator on the ballot in 2014 who did not...
Roby: GOP majority will govern, leave behind Harry Reid’s ‘radical agenda’
“To everything there is a season,” Ecclesiastes reads. The end of the campaign season is a relief to those who tire of hearing all...
Dr. Ben Carson takes aim at entrenched Alabama Democrat Roger Bedford
TUSCUMBIA, Ala. -- Famed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson gained national notoriety for his speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast, during which he criticized...
Alabama progressives warn blacks to vote or face silencing, targeting and ‘Klan’ events
The Alabama New South Coalition (ANSC), whose stated purpose is "to promote the general welfare of all people through independent focused organizations dedicated to...
Bentley is more likely to get re-elected than literally any other governor in America
36 states will hold gubernatorial elections on Tuesday, and according to the famed election prognosticators at FiveThirtyEight, Alabama's incumbent governor Robert Bentley is the...
NOT GUILTY: An inside look at what happened in the jury room during the Barry Moore trial
"If Pipkin and Tullos are going home to their families tonight after what they did," the juror said, "then Barry Moore should definitely be...
AEA-backed Republicans strategize to take Speaker’s office
The battle lines in Rep. Jim Carns' (R-Birmingham) bid to unseat Rep. Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn) as Speaker of the Alabama House of Representative perhaps...
Alabama Rep. Barry Moore not guilty on all counts
OPELIKA, Ala. -- Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) was found not guilty on all counts after being charged with two counts of first-degree perjury and...
Bentley vows to fight the feds, EPA and ‘stupid regulations’ in second term
OAKMAN, Ala. -- Gov. Robert Bentley visited the Drummond Camp Creek Coal Mine in Walker County on Wednesday and brought with him some fierce...
Conservative group says radical environmental push is ‘Obama’s plan, Alabama’s problem’
The Alabama Free Market Alliance (AFMA), a conservative advocacy group headed by Alabama's Republican National Committeeman Paul Reynolds, released a television ad this week...
Out-of-state liberal group spends big at last minute to swing Alabama legislative races
Southern Progress Action Fund (SPAF), an Arkansas-based liberal group bent on returning Democrats to power in the South is spending over $100,000 to swing...
Sessions: Senate Democrats have surrendered to Obama’s lawless immigration scheme
USCIS, a union that represents roughly 12,000 officers in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, made waves this week when it disclosed that the...
Sims unloads on Apple CEO for ‘swooping in’ to ‘lecture Alabama on how we should live’
Yellowhammer's Cliff Sims unloaded on Apple CEO Tim Cook on Twitter Monday after Cook harshly criticized the State of Alabama for being "too slow...
Strange picks up Sessions endorsement and large ad buy from national GOP group
Alabama's incumbent Republican Attorney General Luther Strange is locked in a heated race against Democratic challenger State Rep. Joe Hubbard (D-Montgomery), but it looks...
Bentley camp doesn’t squash presidential speculation, says he’s ‘focused on being governor’
A spokesperson for Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley responded to speculation that Bentley could be a potential 2016 presidential candidate by simply saying that he's...