After surviving both a health scare and a full slate of Republican challengers in the primary, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is poised to win a second full term Tuesday against Democrat Yolanda Flowers, the first Black woman to win a major party's gubernatorial nomination in the state, and a third candidate.
While Flowers' candidacy is an interesting historical footnote, it posed little threat to the GOP's control of all three branches of government in a majority-white, conservative state where voting patterns typically break down by skin color.
