GOP`s Shelby played key role in Alabama Democrat`s victory
(WorldNews Politics)

WASHINGTON (AP) - Credit six-term Republican Sen. Richard Shelby for Democrat Doug Jones` shocking win in Alabama, senators from both parties said Wednesday. Shelby, Alabama`s senior senator and the state`s most influential official, publicly opposed GOP nominee Roy Moore and declared before the election that `the state of Alabama deserves better` than a former judge accused of sexual contact with teenage girls decades ago. A former Democrat, Shelby, 83, announced weeks before the election that he had already cast an absentee ballot for another, unspecified...