Thanks to redrawn congressional districts in southern Alabama, two sitting congressmen will be running against each other in a race that could effectively end one man’s time on Capitol Hill.
In a Super Tuesday contest, voters in Alabama’s new 1st Congressional District will vote to choose whether they support Rep. Jerry Carl (R-Ala.) or Rep. Barry Moore (R-Ala.) in a Republican primary contest.
Mr. Moore, who currently represents Alabama’s 2nd district, was placed into a newly redrawn first district that encompasses much of Alabama’s Gulf Coast, near Mobile, Alabama, and its southernmost counties in the so-called Wiregrass region that abuts the Florida panhandle and the western border of Georgia….