In his latest illustration for Alabama Media Group’s AL.com, cartoonist J.D. Crowe mocked the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), for a poll it commissioned showing incumbent Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) within four points of former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore.
The two are facing off in a runoff next month for the Republican nomination in a special election scheduled for December for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by now-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Strange was appointed by then-Gov. Robert Bentley (R-AL), who has since been forced out as governor and was also a subject of an investigation Strange’s office was conducting while he was Alabama’s attorney general.
“Another poll – a poll bought and paid for by Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund, a group that’s already invested $8 million into the Strange primary campaign – says the race between Moore and Strange is a dead heat,” Crowe wrote in an article accompanying his cartoon. “Big Luther’s poll numbers are kinda like the man himself. Both can be pulled back and forth like taffy, depending on the money. And stuff.”
A recent JMC Analytics poll tells a different story from the polling promoted by the Senate Leadership. That poll showed Moore with a 19-point lead over Strange.
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