You know why this was so close? Check the exit polls, very few said their decision was based on Roy Moore's predeliction for pedophilia. It was so close (they say) because Doug Jones was pro-choice. What they don't say is that Doug made his mark as a public figure by prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan. That cuts close to home for many Alabamians. For my-brother-the-Klansman it woulda. Mother-fucker probably drove from North Carlolina to Alabama and clandestinely registered to vote so he could do his part to take out an existential threat to him.