Moore's defenders are saying "innocent until proven guilty." But he is not on trial. He is running for the Senate. Alabamans have to decide whether they should send this man to Washington to represent them in the Senate. The standard is not "innocent until proven guilty." It is what do Alabamans think about this man based on what they have read by the time Election Day occurs. There will be no trial by then to determine either guilt or innocence. So that cannot be the standard. Alabamans have to make their own judgment on the merits. You have to ask yourself, why would these women make this up out of whole cloth, throwing their lives into utter disarray? Simply to try to swing an election? That seems unlikely to me. Their stories are detailed. Moore has not denied that he dated teenagers, and plenty of people seem to have corroborated that he hung around in malls and dated teenage girls. The important thing, Alabamans: judge the man by yourself, now, based on what you have read. Don't hide behind "innocent until proven guilty" because that would be true if he shot a man yesterday in cold blood. Just because there is no time for a trial does not preclude guilt. You have to figure that out yourself on this one.