“Would you mind translating that sentence for those of us in other states who speak English?”
Well, I did omit the word “governor”, so I can see how you may have been confused. It has been posted that AZ governor won by a substantial margine, I believe ~300k votes. How then, logically, does Dem Sinema win that state?
Thank you!
As for me being “confused”, trust me, it doesn’t take much until at least my ninth cup of coffee. :)
By successfully claiming to be a moderate. By having an opponent who took 51% in the primary just 6 weeks before the voting started, while she could run ads all summer with a budget 2-3 times that of McSally. By running ads boasting about how often she voted with Trump. And by running IN Arizona, rather than sitting in DC and waiting for Hannity & President Trump to carry her across the finish line!
McSally grossly underperformed the Gov in every county I've looked at - including very conservatives ones. The Gov almost carried Pima County, where libs always get most of their votes.
Sinema WORKED for votes. McSally ASSUMED them.
Greg Abbott got around 500k more votes than Ted Cruz did in Texas this election.
The same thing happened in Maryland. Republican (anti-Trump but good on fiscal issues) won for Governor by a lot, but Dem won Senate race by a lot. These two examples show why Florida should not be allowed to guess how a voter would have voted in a skipped race. Many Dems in MD voted straight Dem except for R for Governor.
ARIZONA (Statewide)
R Gov won by 328,000 votes. ( 328,000 presumed R votes for senator)
D Sen is winning by 32,000 vote margin.
(Implied DSen vote = 350,000 to reach 32,000 STATEWIDE vote margin.
[350,000] (absolute) vote swing to D Sen?
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MARICOPA County (only)
R Gov won Maricopa County by 325,000 votes.
D Sen winning Maricopa by 32,000 vote margin
Did total Statewide DSen margin ( 32,000 votes) come from Maricopa County?
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We need actual (claimed) vote totals to make sense of this...