An Alabama Democrat's Win Rolls Over Trump

When a friend who’s a political reporter returned my call shortly before 10 p.m. last Tuesday, I began with a question that was also a lament: “When do the educated people in Alabama have their votes counted?”

At the time, Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, was leading by about 30,000 votes over Doug Jones with 60 percent of the ballots tallied. He had been dogged during the campaign by accusations of being a sexual predator by several women, one of whom was 14 when the then-30-year-old attorney allegedly partially undressed her and then groped her high and low. There had been revelations that one high school security officer back then was assigned to make sure that Mr. Moore, who got away from his job as a prosecutor whenever the school's football team was playing, didn’t get too close to the cheerleaders, and that he was on a kind of watch list at local malls due to similar concerns about his interest in underage girls.