Arizona's mammoth first district-- slightly bigger than Pennsylvania-- is centered on Flagstaff but is like a representation of the state of the whole state of Arizona. It includes the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert, the suburbs south of Phoenix and north of Tucson, the huge a Navajo and Hopi reservations--and more native Americans than any other district in the country.
Blank Whoppers, unsavory truths and gender wildfires + this day in history w/the Bush/Obama bankster bailout bill and our song of the day by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians on your Morning Monarchy for October 3, 2018.
Costliest fighter, conflict of interest and taking documents home + this day in history w/another shooter event and our song of the day by Clutch on your Morning Monarchy for October 1, 2018.
An old friend just reached out to me and asked me if it was ok to contribute through the DSCC because he wanted to help Beto and Kyrsten O'Rourke. My advice was to contribute directly to Beto here because giving anything to the DSCC means helping them line the pockets of corrupt, inept consultants and because they don't like Beto anyway.
McCain and WoodsUnless you live in Arizona, you probably never heard of Grant Woods, who was Attorney General there from 1991 'til 1999. A mainstream conservative, he won his first race with 80% of the vote. Earlier, he had served as McCain's chief of staff when McCain was a congressman in the 1980s. He remained very close with McCain for the decades that followed.
Paul Gosar is a crackpot dentist, multimillionaire and teabagger representing nut-country in Arizona, AZ-04. The district is massive, albeit mostly empty. It stretches from the exurbs east, north and west of Phoenix, down to Yuma up to Lake Havasu, through the Mohave Valley to Bullhead City to the Utah border. Prescott and Kingman are what passes for population centers. The PVI is R+21, by far the worst in the state. Trump won the district 67.7% to 27.5%.Most members of Congress consider Gosar a joke.
MI-08 is an iffy seat for a Democrat to win without a wave. But this cycle there is a wave. The R+4 district includes Democratic Ingraham County (Lansing), Republican Livingston County and then red parts of Oakland County. in the suburbs north of Detroit. Although Obama won the district in 2008, Romney took it in 2012 and Trump beat Hillary 50.6% to 43.9%. The incumbent, Mike Bishop, was majority leader of the Michigan state Senate but has been a hapless, anonymous backbencher in Congress, a Trump rubber-stamp and enabler.
