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?