re: Tuscaloosa mayor Walt Maddox Considering a run for governor

It isn't just the parties. It's the people he'll have to bow to as a Democrat.

Nancy Worley and Joe Reed run the Democratic party in Alabama. If you want to be a candidate, you have to answer to them - but if you answer to them then you aren't winning a statewide election.

I suspect he'll withdraw without ever formally entering the race.

The Republican party was teetering on the verge of being in a very similar situation with Mike Hubbard, but his felony convictions took care of that issue.