- Arizona elects second ‘Flake’ in a row to Senate
- State’s voters breathe easy… We damn near elected a genuine American hero!
- RINO Revenge?
- FIRST PROUD PART-TIME LESBIAN ELECTED TO U S SENATE
- A strict vagitarian she is not
- It’s about time! America’s Bi-Sexuals have gone too long without congressional representation
- Brings a new facet to bipartisan
- Krysten Sinema: Let’s see whatcha got…oh, never mind
Democrats netted another Senate seat Monday night after Republican Martha McSally conceded Arizona’s race to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema.
Along with Nevada, that makes two GOP-held Senate seats that will be Democratic next year. Republicans, meanwhile, netted three seats as their candidate is leading — though facing a recount — in a fourth race, in Florida.
With her victory Ms. Sinema becomes the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Arizona in nearly a quarter century.
She’s also the first openly bisexual person to be elected to the Senate, gay-rights group Human Rights Campaign said.
Ms. McSally had led the count on election night but as more ballots were counted, Ms. Sinema took the lead. As of Monday night she was nearly 40,000 votes, or nearly 2 percentage points, ahead.
This may offer some explanation for McSally’s loss…but not enough! DLH
How could Arizona elect someone like Kyrsten Sinema?
By Monica Showalter ( excerpt)
McSally may have lowered her own voters’ enthusiasm factor by acting standoffish from Donald Trump at first, although she did take a Trump endorsement in the end. Also, radio host Mark Levin complained that McSally refused to go on his program, which sounds like a rather bad mistake. So, she may have failed to whip up the GOP base, while Sinema’s gaffes were natural base whippers for the Democrats. Democrats, in other words, probably liked her gaffes, while moderate suburbanites probably looked at her nothing-special congressional record, giving Sinema a win-win, while McSally stayed on the fence about Trump.
The one lesson of the midterms was that GOP candidates who distanced themselves from Trump tended to do very poorly, as Trump himself made clear enough, going all Hugo-Chavez in style by reading off names. (Chavez used to do that kind of thing). Hard as that might be to take for those who were already licking their wounds from defeat, it’s pretty obvious Trump was right. Voters like a strong horse, a winner, and if you don’t want to be with the winner, some are going to turn to the other party. Perhaps McSally’s earlier distancing of herself from Trump was fatal and the eventual Trump endorsement she got was too little too late.
Now we have a new lefty in the Senate, and while she may cause problems for Republicans, her past gaffes ought to be good fodder for her ouster in six years. Given McSally’s considerable merits, it’s a darn shame it should take that long
Additional reading, this one from American Greatness:
