When a principled stand gets in the way of effective campaigning

When a principled stand gets in the way of effective campaigning

A line of voters wrapped around a polling location in Huntsville at midmorning on Nov. 5, 2024. Jeff MCLaughlin, the Democrats' nominee for attorney general, had not raised any money through the end of July. (Anna Claire Vollers/Stateline)People who claim to hate politics should love how Jeff McLaughlin has pursued elected office. In his near-decade in the Alabama House of Representatives, the Democrat from Guntersville shunned political donatio…