Spoke to someone from Arizona this evening: Hiral Tipirneni will probably lose tomorrow.....

[rufus dog]

7. Perspective needed on this one

This a District I grew up in. Actually, I believe AZ had six districts when I was kid, so I grew up in the area that is now District 8.

1. Home of Sun City - Huge retirement community that was always under funding schooling, basically fuck off to any other generations.
2. Rural areas being turned into new suburbs. The older areas are filled with educationally challenged people. The facebook posts from the people I went to school with are among the worst of the worst. They hate blacks, mexicans, gays, and all liberals and especially us Californians.

So turning this one blue is a long shot. A candidate would have to sweep the newer areas (a HUGE task based upon who moves into the NW burbs of Phx) by a huge margin to offset the Sun City and long term residents vote.