I think folks expecting 2010 to be a cakewalk are fooling themselves. In AZ-8, I expect ‘blue dog’ Giffords will win. She’ll have a lot of support in people and cash from the unions. An incumbent with a lot of cash is tough to beat - look at McCain. When someone has 20+ million dollars to pour into attack ads, they can muddy the waters pretty thoroughly. And Arizona just voted to raise the sales tax ‘for the children’!
2010 is NOT going to be an easy year. It will be a fight, needing cash and manpower on the conservative side.
Hmmm...maybe Gabby is going to help us out:
“Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) said in a TV interview that she opposes SB 1070: ‘Having formerly served in the state legislature, if I had been there, I don’t think I would have voted for it.’”
In AZ-8, I think even the Hispanics are fed up with illegal immigration!