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Article snippet: VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. — Sallie Gunter, 61, a freelance court reporter, was having breakfast with her friend Lisa Hicks, 44, a legal assistant, at Panera Bread when the subject of Roy S. Moore came up. It felt like revisiting a recurring bad dream. “How am I processing it?” Ms. Gunter said. “I do a lot of work with gender discrimination and sexual discrimination so I need to carefully word this. I just would probably say where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire.” Both women considered themselves independents who have voted for both Democrats and Republicans, although Ms. Hicks said she leaned Republican. And Ms. Gunter said she had gone to high school with Mr. Moore’s Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, and would be voting for him. But like many in urban and suburban Alabama, the two women viewed the allegations reported by The Washington Post that Mr. Moore had made sexual overtures to teenagers decades ago not so much as a discrete scandal. Rather, it felt to them like the latest episode in a tawdry political sideshow with seemingly endless chapters. “We’ve spent millions in Alabama on Roy Moore’s antics,” Ms. Gunter said. “Millions that could have been spent on our kids and schools. I’m just fed up. He needs to find something to do for people who adore him.’’ Alabama is not Virginia, and the political leanings of suburban women do not have the same political weight here as they did Tuesday in Virginia. Census statistics show that Alabama’s voting age population is... Link to the full article to read more