Its also my understanding McSally was a very unattractive candidate personality-wise.
That’s hard to say. She’s not a really good candidate or a really bad candidate. She doesn’t make mistakes and say anything that’s crazy or stupid. She was well-liked by people in her congressional district in Tucson and won reelection in a landslide in 2016. But I think she was outspent by over 2 to 1 by Sinema in this election. I don’t watch much television, but the radio ads I heard were all for Sinema until about 2 days before the election, when McSally was running more ads on the stations that I listen to. McSally just never really got rolling statewide in this election
I’m wondering now if Gov. Ducey will consider her as an appointee to McCain’s old seat, which Jon Kyl is filling until the end of this year. My hunch is Ducey probably won’t appoint her because he would look like he’s going against the will of the people. If she loses, it’s probably going to take an appointment to a Senate seat to restart her political career.
McSally underestimated Sinema and let her win the likebilty contest. This along with the bitter GOP primary and Cali fruits moving in, perfect storm . While this is a turd in the punchbowl GOP did pretty good with the senate overall.