(CNN) Democrat Doug Jones -- once thought to be a longshot in the Deep South -- has tied Republican nominee and former judge Roy Moore in Alabama's US Senate race, a new poll shows. The two are tied at 42% each among registered voters, the Fox News poll published Tuesday, conducted by Democratic firm Anderson Robbins Research and GOP firm Shaw & Company Research. Moore and Jones will face off in a special election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions' former seat December 12. Among those voters, Jones has a one-point lead over Moore at 46% to 45%. In the 2012 race for state Supreme Court chief justice, he won by just 2 points over little-known circuit court judge Bob Vance in a year Mitt Romney won the state by 22 points.

Source: CNN October 18, 2017 00:11 UTC