There are a number of conflating factors.
In no particular order:
1) McCain spent $20 million of his 2008 campaign money (which he should have used to defeat Teh One).
2) He flooded the airwaves with ads.
3) He had the Palin endorsement.
4) JD is not an outsider -- he had served in Congress for 12 years before losing and going into talk radio.
5) JD has a reputation as a lover of pork.
6) AZ allows independents to vote in GOP primaries IIRC.
7) McCain has name recognition
8) McCain ran hard RIGHT to the campaign.
And Fox has been in the tank for McCain: right now according to the AZ Secretary of State page, 17% of ballots have been cast and McCain leads 199,060 to 99,498 with Jim Deakin pulling in 38,579. Recall that Al Franken won in MN due to a 3-way race with the third guy pulling in 14% of the vote...
NO Cheers, unfortunately.
Only 1.5 percent of the precincts have reported and McCain has won? How is that possible?
I keep saying that I have no hope for the voters turning this country around. This is a perfect example of why.
Nope, you are right. This confirms it in my mind that, save for a minority, Americans are IDIOTS and with so many IDIOTS running amok in the country, well she cannot be saved. Though we can’t give up trying of course. But I just can’t get my hopes up anymore.
And I so wish this fly in the ointment would GO AWAY already.
We taught em a lesson in Florida. RINOS go away!