Wonkette
Remember how much everybody hated Al Gore for not winning his home state of Tennessee back in 2000? How awesome would it be if John McCain lost his “home” state of Arizona? It’s not impossible! First of all, McCain’s biggest enemies are people who know him, and the Arizona political establishment knows him well. There is little enthusiasm for McCain back “home” because he’s always been seen as a carpetbagging opportunist who wound up in Phoenix because it had some things he wanted at the time: a new, very wealthy wife, and an easy Republican House seat he could win.
Once McCain got his congressional seat, he went back to Washington and has rarely returned to Arizona in the three decades he’s been an elitist congressman and senator. He’s no Barry Goldwater!
Arizona has a lot of the kinds of new voters who hate Republicans and especially hate McCain: young people and Latinos. Too bad McCain gave all those illegals the shamnesty, ha ha, because now they’re all going to vote for the colored!
The last state poll showed McCain with a 7-point lead in Arizona; that was three weeks ago, on September 30, and was down from a 10-percent lead in August. That’s not a favorite son we can believe in.
Nobody really wasted much time/money on polling in Arizona because come on, of course McCain would win his state, right? But now the race is getting tighter and a new poll will finally be done and the projection is that McCain will only be ahead a couple of points, within the margin of error.
Arizona has 10 electoral votes — twice as many as bordering battleground state Nevada.
Could Barack Obama defeat McCain in Arizona? [ABC 15]
Thanks, Brandon Clare, for the tip!
Pro tip: Never buy shirts with big screen-printed blocks like that, it’s hella uncomfortable and you get a gross sweat-ring around the printed part, probably especially in the God-forsaken steaming sandpits of Arizona
Barry needs to drop a couple of mil for Phoenix TV, just to shove the fact he can afford it in WALNUTS’s face.
I hope Obama starts campaigning there next week.
I know people who have been to Phoenix. There are Mormons there. Let’s not set our hopes too high, Ken.
This shit is getting out of hand. If all these swing-state pipe dreams come true, the electoral map will have more blue than an Eiffel 65 greatest hits collection.
Arizona has young people and Latinos?! My retirement plans have definitely got to be changed — maybe I should go to Minnesota.
Steve Nash is a dirty elitist liberal Canuck, I bet he’d endorse Obama, and his word is as good as law to the fair and adoring people of Phoenix. Get on it, you shaggy hoser!
If Walnuts loses Arizona, then it’s a HUGE night for the Dems. If that happens, my nightmare could materialize: The Dems collect 59 Senate seats and continue to caucus with Lieberman in order to hold a super-secret majority or whatever….
This is all because of that Alaskan Queen crab he’s hooked up with.
Johnny cant shake of that kind of crab.
…the only thing I would love more than watching WALNUTS! getting spanked in Arizona is watching KKKaribou Barbie getting routed in Alaska. Oh pwetty pwease God!!!
Hahaha! I’ve been calling this for months. The republicans I know around here are talking about staying home on Nov 4th, and all of the Dems and independents are pumped for Obama. If the freaky wingnuts in Phoenix lose 1 out of 8 voters to apathy, Obama will really have a chance. Best part? Obama is using all of his resources here to win in New Mexico. He might just punk McCain without spending a penny.
Do go there Barry! It’s a trap!
I want revenge: I want McCain to come close, but lose because he lost Arizona.
Allright, I’m lying. I want a friggin’ blowout. I want McCain to take home Idaho and Utah and nothing else.
Serolf Divad: Yeah, revenge for Dukakis!!
Send in Richardson to stir up the Mexica! (Not sure if it is still legal to speak Spanish in Arizona, though). That would be awesome if the Lipstick Pig had to do appearances in Scottsdale! She’d need a new wardrobe!
That would be SO awesome. The Goldwater grandchildren all are voting for Obama. Goldwater couldn’t stand Walnuts either - something about him being a corrupt shitheel who followed his dick to Arizona and pretended they were the best of friends when they so obvsiously weren’t. So let’s see - we have Goldwaters, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Susan Eisenhower all voting for Obama. Jenna Bush is on the fence. Ron and Patti are more than likely representing the Reagan wing in supporting Obama as well. Has anyone polled the Ford family lately?
mattbolt: this type of tip is EXACTLY why i read these boards.
Nah.
Listen, I’ve been to Arizona, and those people smoke a LOT of WEED. So unfortunately they will have completely forgotten everything the teevee has told them about Hopey by the time they walk into the voting booth on Nov 5th, and it won’t be until they find the door locked that they realize they should have voted yesterday.
Yes we should have!
mattbolt: Actually, Arizona is mostly a dry heat, so you don’t sweat as much as you would in HALF-BREED MUSLIN HAWAII.
McCain, you simple tool. As soon as them lazy, pot-smoking, fornicatin’ beatnik kids and them baby-machine Mexkins heard “spread the wealth”, they knew Mr. Obama was the conductor of the gravy train express and that it was time to get on board.
Mr. Arizona seems to be obsessed with men named “Barry”.
I never noticed it until I saw that shirt, but McCain looks just like a shaved Col. Sanders.
McCain is still ahead in Oaxaca, Chihuahua, and DF.
We’re all Minutemen today.
Maverick’s don’t need votes from their home state.
It won’t be the first time McCain’s blown up his home base.
What does “Arizona” mean anyway?
Razin’ Arizona.
Serolf Divad: he’ll get TX too. McLame is up by double digits in this hell hole of a state.
Will some nice East Coast liberal elite family please adopt me? I promise not to pee inside the house.
Fivetree: McCain*Palin 4 Obama!!!
Gopherit: You dirty zonie.
JAMMAKAIN!! JAMMAKAIN!!
SelfDeprecatingFed: It means “Butt ugly and hot as a motherfucker in July” in Navajo.
Does “blowin’ up a canyon” mean with, like, DYNO-MITE? Or is it like, ridin’ wid da wind? Either way, McSame’s mavericky campaign is being propelled by a mighty wind emanating like an explosion from his ancient crack shack of an ass.
Ken Layne: We are Legion!
ManchuCandidate: GAH! WIN!!
lenorecutie: Colonel McCain licks his fingers good.
SelfDeprecatingFed: Arizona, from Spanglish, Papago arizonac, literally, few springs, small springs. Tiny little springs that make the tiny little things between their ears swing and sway in the winds that blow through the canyons that yawn there.
Maj. Major Major Major: Don’t worry, if the Dems get to 59 they can caucus with Bernie Sanders (S-VT) and can still tell Vinegar Joe to suck it.
checkonechecktwo: Hey, I resent that comment! I smoke a lot of weed and I managed to stop for a sec and remember to vote for Barry! Plus, I live in TEXAS! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
538 says Walnuts will win AZ and Barry will be preznit and I believe everything they say, so there.
Ummmm, sorry, but I’m not sure the numbers are there (although I wish they were):
http://www.pollster.com/polls/az/08-az-pres-ge-mvo.php
All your tumbleweed are belong to Barry
Walnuts will win AZ. But the AP says he isn’t even going to his own election night watch party. He’s going to deliver remarks on the lawn of the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix. He may be a cranky old coot but maybe he can read the writing on the wall.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/23/politics/p124147D22.DTL&type=politics
my friendsh letsh call thish what is ish: horseshit.
Crazybroad: Like I said, the last survey was done in September, more than three weeks ago.
bitchincamaro: Haha - you too? When Barry’s winning percentage went from 94.4% to 93.6% on 538, I had the sadness.
Emoticons blow almost as much as Walnuts.
This just in: the reanimated corpses of Thomas Dewey and Calvin Coolidge have just endorsed That One. And Teddy Roosevelt ain’t far behind (East Coast liberal elitist).
Ummm… Shouldn’t we be saying Please Allah or something.
I live in Phoenix, an Arizonan for 34 years. The state house and senate may both go blue for the first time since forever. The dem registration numbers here are huge. The GOTV canvassing here is huge. The only rep left might be right wing wack job Secretary of State Jan Breyer, which is bad because she will become governor when she replaces Janet Napolitano. Eveyone here is dead sure JaNa will end up on Obama’s cabinet.
Just you wait libruls
It may be the only state Walnuts wins, but he’ll do it. There is far too much meth in AZ. The motivation factor on election day will be fail.
lenorecutie: Ha ha ha ha!!Thanks for the best laugh of the day. No more KFC for me.
magic titty: bitchincamaro: We should all chip in and buy Nate a nice gift for helping to keep us rational for the past eleventeen months.
As a Tucson native (think of us all the librul elites of Arizona, but without all the money) I have to point out that we have a republican governor because the Phoenix area split 51%/49% for the republican mormon guy [not mittens but similar] and Tucson went overwhelmingly for Napolitano and she won.
swarm of bees: Right. The problem isn’t they need less weed, but better weed. BC/Washington State/Cali bud - that’s the Jane we can believe in.
I’d love to see that. The media rushes to get McCain’s reaction to losing Arizona and all they hear is a muffled gunshot and see a flash of light from the back of the Straight Talk Express.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
BillyClubb: Michelle Bachmann could use the company for sure.
For dignity’s sake, let’s let John McCain take his home state vote; let him sweep Panama. And once he’s done, he can mop California, as it’s very dry and dusty.
We’re all Arizoniacs now.
swarm of bees: Hey, I didn’t say I wouldn’t be baked when I go vote early for Barry on Saturday, but I live in Illinois, so,, what were we talking about again?
nestor: Datsun510: Speaking of AZ politics - how is the Giffords/Bee race going? I’m seeing Bee commercials on TV again after a long break now - that must mean something. But what?
mattbolt: Wow. That was really hot!
Gopherit: WIN
Joey Ratz: I bet she’s kicking his ass, though there aren’t any recent polls.
http://www.pollster.com/polls/az/08-az-08-ge-bvg.php
Joey Ratz: Too close to call, but the Phoenix paper, The Arizona Republic has endorsed Giffords. I’m sure the Tucson papers did also.
stirredNOTshaken: Hellhole of a state? I moved to Texas in June and everyone I have met has been a high/drunk, smelly crazy libtard with 50 million vagina stickers on his bumpers.
He was 7 down, ….my bookie says he’s at 4 or 5 down in Ariz. That’s doable. As a volunteer, I know Obama has got a superior ground campaign.
Fivetree: Well, the Fords will obviously back McCain because of Cindy’s allegiance to their fine clinic.
SelfDeprecatingFed: Arizona is Spanish for dry zone– McCain stores Arizona’s water supply in his jowl tits.
Beautiful sentiment, Ken, but highly doubtful. The Unicorn is sending everyone here with a checkbook, car or phone to NM, Colorado and Nevada.
Also, LOL to whoever it was that thinks the state Leg is going blue. You’re cute!
But it is likely that Dems will take at least one congressional seat from the GOP and go 5-3.
mattbolt: It would be nice to have a reverse 1972 or 1984… all states blue except, like, Utah and Arizona. Not much of a chance, but what the hell, one can dream.
Hey, I’ve been telling folks for months that McCain was vulnerable here! If Obama would make an apperance, I think he could make AZ blue, just like Bill C did 12 years ago. If not take, AZ, scare the shit out of him…
Joey Ratz: Giffords looking good, but we here in AZ CD-08 remember the last time we (Dems) held the So Eastern AZ CD seat (CD-05 back in ‘82) We lost it to Kolbe, the gay republican. We don’t want to lose the seat again, so we are cautious and working hard to keep Bee outof Prez Obama’s bonnet.
If Obama had picked Janet Napolitano for VP, sure. Arizona would be theirs. But no way Obama/ Biden wins there.
Maj. Major Major Major: If they get 59 seats look for Olympia Snowe to jump.
“Arizona is the only state in the nation where a mother can’t tell her son he can grow up to be President one day.”
- the late (and great) Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz.
I meant to post this on a different comment line. I knew I shouldn’t have gotten baked first.
Oh hell to the no: I don’t know. Jerry was pretty much headed off the Repubutard Ranch before he went off to that Oval Office in the sky. This process undoubtedly started in 1976 when Reagan and all the other “foot solidiers” in his army (like Walnuts) pissed all over him and caused him to lose the election to Peanuts. After that, it was a long leftward lurch. I am sure Betty and the kids are practically Trotskyites by now.
I live in Flagstaff, AZ, and I’ve always figured McCain was part of the furniture here. I’ve disagreed with most everything he’s ever done or said, except his meager nod to climate change, and his support for stem cell research (which Palin claims he doesn’t support, but then, it’s, uh, Palin). But on that one he probably feels the brain tickle of Alzheimer’s from the inside and is just hedging his bet. Otherwise, he’s just another crotchety right-wing ass clencher.
My BIGGEST problem with McCain, however, is that he NEVER GETS US ANY FRICKIN EARMARKS! What kind of representation is that? We could use a grant to study why desert heat feels dry, or a Gangster Hall of Fame in Phoenix, or a Rednecks ‘r Us Cultural Center in Yuma. WTF? No earmarks? Old Crankwad always freezes us out. Our share of the dole goes to Alaska for some Salmon Deheaders Exposition or Giant Vegetable Fair. Florida gets a bridge a month to somewhere, NY gets its Woodstock Festival Redeye Memorial Crash Pad. What do we get? Scolds from grandpa to shut up and eat our boiled turnips like good little orphans. It’ll be sweet justice to see him lose here. And then the earmarks will flow once more like a river of sweet nectar, and all will be right in the Valley Fever State.
Licensed Analrapist: You live in Austin, don’t you.
Fly-over Correspondent: hahahaha. you got me.
That would be so awesome if Obama kicks McCain’s ass in Arizona. LOL.
Fly-over Correspondent: just about to make the same remark.
Licensed Analrapist: LUCKY.
Sorry.. I think Obama will lose his sorry &%^ in this election. Not because he’s black, but because hes just plain STUPID……….. He would definitely make a good game show host.. I cannot believe anyone believes the BS he has put out…. Most voting for Obama are 100% free loaders wanting something for nothing……Give me, give me,toooo lazy to work themselves. Spread the wealth……… lets spread some more BS…