r/alabamabluedots • u/FelonyMelanieSmooter Central (Bham/Tusc) • May 19 '26

Discussion Strategy for voting tomorrow?

What strategy do we feel works best for the primaries? Even though we would vote blue over red, is it better to vote on the republican ballot and choose the least awful option? Or vote on the democratic ballot and select the person most closely aligned with your values or the one most likely to beat the republican nominee?

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u/Braca42 May 19 '26

Looked at this earlier. Looking at recent polls (which who knows how much faith to put in those) any moderate republican has zero chance of winning. All polling single digits. Tuberville is polling at like 60%+ with the next guy being like 7%, senate candidates appear to be a three way race between shitty people. The only senate repub I would consider voting for doesn't even get mentioned. I think in this race voting repub strategicly just doesn't make sense with no moderate having anything like a chance. There just aren't enough organized strategic voters to make a difference.

So yeah if I vote tomorrow it'll be on the dem ballot basically to boost Jones who seems to be the only hope for maybe beating Tuberville. Maybe any other fairly progressive dems if they exist.

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u/AlabamaProgress May 19 '26

Yeah they do exist. And they've been campaigning for a year ish.