The congressional primaries of Arizona are gaining special attention tonight, because the man who was the Republican Party’s nominee for President two years ago is struggling this year just to maintain his job in the U.S. Senate. John McCain is being challenged from within his own political party by former U.S. Representative J.D. Hayworth, as well as contractor Jim Deakin. On the Democratic side, Rodney Glassman, Cathy Eden and John Dougherty are struggling over the nomination. Jerry Joslyn is the unchallenged Green Party candidate for McCain’s Senate seat.
With nearly all the precincts in Arizona now reporting in, John McCain has a double digit lead over J.D. Hayworth, with Jim Deakin gaining only 11 percent of the vote. Rodney Glassman has a plurality of the Democratic vote, with an 8 point lead.
No Democrat has challenged incumbent U.S. Representative Ann Kirkpatrick. However, eight Republicans are contending over who will have the right to take on Kirkpatrick in the general election: Bradley Beauchamp, Rusty Bowers, Paul Gosar, Sydney Hay, Joe Jaraczewski, Jon Jensen, Steve Mehta, and Thomas Zaleski. Paul Gosar appears to have won the Republican nomination, with Sydney Hay coming in 8 points behind at 22.8 percent of the vote.
In the 2nd congressional district, GOP incumbent Trent Franks has successfully fended off Charles Black, by a margin of over 60 percent of the vote. There is only one Democratic candidate: John Thrasher.
3rd district incumbent John Shadegg is not running for re-election. Ten Republicans competed to take his place as the GOP nominee there: Bob Branch, Sam Crump, Pamela Gorman, LeAnn Hull, Steve Moak, Paulina Morris, Vernon Parker, Ben Quayle, Jim Waring, and Ed Winkler. Quayle led the pack, but only by a small plurality of 22 percent of the vote, less than 5 points ahead of the second place candidate, Steve Moak. John Hulburd is the only Democrat running for the seat.
Democratic incumbent Ed Pastor did not face a primary challenger in the 4th congressional district this year. Janet Contreras won the Republican nomination for the seat over Joe Penalosa, by a margin of over 19 points. Rebecca DeWitt is running as the Green Party candidate in the district.
In the 5th district, there was no challenger to Democratic incumbent Harry Mitchell. Five Republicans competed for the right to take him on in the general election this year, with David Schweikert coming in first, defeating second place Jim Ward by 12 points.
6th district incumbent Jeff Flake easily won the Republican nomination, with a 30 point lead over rival Jeff Smith. The uncontested nominees of the Democratic Party and the Green Party are Rebecca Schneider and Richard Grayson, respectively.
Democratic incumbent Raul Grijalva did not face a primary contest in the 7th district. Ruth McClung gained a majority of the vote in the Republican primary, though she faced four competitors, with a margin of victory over 25 points.
In the 8th congressional district, no Democrat ran against Gabrielle Giffords, the incumbent. Jesse Kelly won the Republican nomination by 8 points. Jonathan Paton came in second.
i guess it’s hard to be progressive in a redneck state. The state is beautiful, the majority of the people who live there are ugly (on the inside, where it counts): greedy, suspicious, paranoid, regressive, ethnically biased, police state oriented Neanderthals.
Yep. Governor Jan Brewer easily won the Republican nomination. The GOP there is all too happy to have racist laws against hispanics, and many of the Arizona Democrats are too afraid to take it on.
Oh wise one. Give me a break. You think most people in Arizona are ugly? Look in the mirror you self loving twit.
Tom, your posting was the first one I read when I visited this blog. I was looking for primary election results in Arizona for 2010.
It seems to me you’re right. Most of the people living here are ugly on the inside. I live in Rimrock, about forty-five minutes east of Sedona by car. Your description seems to fit my neighbors and other members of the Beaver Creek community, who are usually distrustful of anyone who doesn’t agree with them. If you argue with someone, you’re branded as a malcontent or troublemaker. I wondered if I’m the only one with this opinion. Now I realize that I’m not. This is not a progressive state. It’s a regressive one. No wonder we’re the only state with our own time zone.
http://www.truth-out.org/cannibalism-or-disinfectant-missing-plot-arizona62616
Hispanics are of the caucasian race – you have demonstrated your stupidity, if it was happening (which it is not) it would be ethnic discrimination.
I hope, Tom, that progressives buy your ignorance about the people of Arizona, maybe it will keep more left coast and bleeding hearts from moving here. We have enough trouble here with illegals, drug smuggling, human trafficing, and murder without having juries made up of liberals turning them back out on the streets. We also have enough help from the left refusing to protect the borders, advocating amnesty, thank you very much obamassia.
Right on!
I think you just proved Tom’s point. Maybe being more open and friendly would bring the kind of people we want to Arizona. Or, do we really want everyone here to be a fearful, racist idiot. I personally think that if you make less than one million dollars per year, voting for a Republican is insane, as most of the decisions made by these elected officials really effect our pocketbooks and Republicans tend to vote for protecting the rich and Democrats for the poor and middle class.
Olsoljer, you’ve obviously never been to Washington Heights.
I do not believe I am the “uncontested” nominee of the Green Party in AZ-06. The results are not in yet.
Olsoljer: thanks for your reply. What part of “ethnically biased” don’t you get? Jerk-offs like you spouting your ignorance as gospel will insure that life won’t get any better for any of us. For your information all of the problems you listed are happening all over the U.S. and not simply by hispanics. What do you want to do – create a police state? Well, guess what, we’re almost there already. Keep up the good work, i’m sure God is on your side.
i’m not sure if you read, mel, but here’s an article you can check out:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41430_Page3.html
a quote from it:
When I asked him about the “100 percent border security” that some people dream about to keep illegal immigrants out of the country, Vilsack said: “Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here.
“But if you didn’t have these folks, you would be spending a lot more — three, four or five times more — for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks. Neither is what Americans want. What they want is what we have. Which is why we need comprehensive immigration reform.”
on fascist state we’re fast becoming (Dude, Where’s The Constitution?):
http://cryptogon.com/
“more of the same” behavior as you support by the almighty whiteys:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/muslim_driver_claims_report_had_Q0XBoYKQbmlzqXMiqydOEK
and the ultimate results of such:
http://ofgoatsandmen.blogspot.com/