Mobile and Baldwin County News
A trove of correspondence from operatives in Mobile's 2005 mayoral campaign shows how insiders read the polls, the TV buys and the racial arithmetic of the race that elected Sam…
An anonymous website urged Mobile County Commissioner Steve Nodine to challenge Mayor Sam Jones in 2009. Nodine said flatly that he would not run, and his allies accused the mayor's…
James Fields' lopsided win in a north Alabama special election, in a district that is roughly one percent Black, prompted Mobile-area Republicans and Democrats to draw sharply different conclusions.
Days after Iowa and New Hampshire scrambled the field, dozens of Mobile and Baldwin county political figures offered wildly different forecasts for a presidential contest neither party could yet control.
Asked in mid-2007 whom they favored for president, Mobile-area officials, lawyers and businessmen produced a portrait of a Republican electorate torn between Giuliani, McCain and Romney, and a probate judge…
Campaign records showed House Speaker Seth Hammett moved more than $1.4 million to Democratic candidates across Alabama in the 2006 cycle, including several from Mobile and the southwest counties.
The consultant behind Sam Jones' mayoral win said Mobile's four-term former mayor would be the odds-on favorite in the governor's race if he entered it. Dow, busy with a new…