Takeaways for the GOP?

Alabama is a state in which the GOP has a strong advantage. But that wasn't enough to overcome the faults in the candidate they put forward. Even Trump's support of him wasn't enough. And now their advantage in the Senate is razor thin, 51-49. They're going to need a breakdown of everything that went wrong for them and to learn from it, because they can't expect to succeed going forward like this.

One thing I'd say, don't run ambiguously racist candidates, or racist candidates at all. Maybe Moore wasn't really racist, but he really didn't do any good with his comment about that last time he thinks America was great...during slavery. Not just ambiguously racist, it's really also just offensive to the nation. 150 years of history since slavery, and he can't find anything he thought was great? Fighting in the world wars, inventing modern computers, aircraft, the internet, landing on the moon, the human genome project, the list goes on. I found it offensive and unrealistic. Anyone got anything else?

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Do a thorough background examination of your candidate would be a top lesson, but I don't think that this is a GOP problem, not quite. I think that, based on Mitch McConnell and his general reactions to Moore, the GOP brass didn't want Moore, but Bannon and his "ideas" and those who follow them did.

I think that the number one lesson that the GOP should pull from this, and in fact both parties should have already received courtesy of the last election and the campaigns running up to it, is that insurgent candidates are here to stay, and holding to the party line will become a liability when the majority of the base want some sort of change.