Today's edition of GPB's "Political Rewind" couldn't help but lead on a Washington Post report that in 1979, when he was a 32-year-old bachelor in Alabama, future U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore struck up a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl.

One response from an Alabama Republican: Just like the Holy Family.

Will Moore still beat Democrat Doug Jones on Dec. 12? The consensus of the panel: Probably.

We also talk about Stacey Abrams, one of two Democratic candidates for governor in Georgia. She won the endorsement of Gabby Giffords’ gun control group – and the ire of Zell Miller fans for an anecdote she’s telling about a 1991 trip the Governor’s Mansion when she was 17.

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Today’s panelists: Host Bill Nigut; yours truly; GOP consultant Loretta Lepore; and state Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver, D-Decatur.

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Julian Conley listens during opening statements in his trial at Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. The 25-year-old is accused of fatally shooting 8-year-old Secoriea Turner in July 2020. (Abbey Cutrer/AJC)

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