HEADLINE: Dead Republican beats Democratic incumbent in Alabama
THE RECAP: A Republican nominee who died almost a month before Election Day beat the incumbent Democratic candidate for a seat on the Bibb County Commission.
Republican Charles Beasley defeated Democrat Walter Sansing despite having died on Oct. 12. Beasley carried about 52 percent of the votes. The ballots were printed before Beasley’s death and couldn’t be changed before the vote.
The Bibb County Republican Party will recommend a successor to Gov. Robert Bentley, who will appoint a new commissioner.
DREW’S VIEW: On Election Day, voters in Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District re-elected a candidate who deceived voters by claiming to be a social conservative when he was not, apparently strong-armed one of his many mistresses into having an abortion, allegedly appeared as if he was going to shoot his then-wife and himself in separate incidents, may well have his medical license suspended for engaging in sexual relations and illegal drug use with patients, evidently improperly prescribed drugs to a patient he slept with, and then blamed the whole mess on the media.