The semi-finals have been set in the World Cup of Arizona Politics. In one match it’s Mo Udall versus Gabrielle Giffords, and in the other it’s Terry Goddard against Isabella Greenway. Greenway came out ahead after a seesaw battle with the last Republican in the competition, Barry Goldwater.
As usual, you can vote at the semi-finals [...]
The all important quarterfinal has been set in the World Cup of Arizona Politics. Voting closes at noon tomorrow.
We’ve got liberal icon Mo Udall against chair of the progressive caucus Raúl Grijalva in the first match. Be very afraid on that one. Another interesting match is Arizona’s first woman in congress, Isabella Greenway, against conservative [...]
Quick, who was the longest serving member of Congress? Well, up until this week, you could have proudly mentioned Carl Trumbull Hayden of Tempe. As of this week, however, the good Senator Hayden has lost that distinction to Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
Hayden served a term as Sheriff of Maricopa County, then ran for Arizona’s [...]
The State Democratic Party tried to get some mileage out of John McCain’s last minute appearance at the Prescott courthouse. They wanted to use this as evidence that McCain was worried about Arizona. I took it as McCain trying to invoke Barry Goldwater, who often began and ended his campaigns at the Prescott courthouse.
Come to [...]
A couple of folks over at DailyKos have been pushing for Barack Obama to make a visit here in Arizona over the next few days. I’m about to tell y’all something that is going to go totally against what many of you feel about this idea.
I’d really rather he didn’t come.
Not because he wouldn’t make [...]
Yesterday, I heard a third pundit declare Arizona as a place that Barack Obama might want to spend money.
Yeah, I’d love to think that we could pull it off here. History mavens like me like to point out that Barry Goldwater won Arizona by less than 4800 votes (less than one percent of those cast) [...]
Story is still developing, but a group of eleven Republican congressmen visited the White House this afternoon, met with the President and high ranking members of his staff and told him that he has no credibility on Iraq. Think Progress has the story.
I have only heard two names (Mark Kirk of Illinois and Charlie Dent [...]
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