re: Many Republicans just didn’t vote for the Republican candidates in Arizona

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What do “better candidates” look like to you? What names would you suggest being from the state?

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Candidates that didn't upload selfies like this a few years ago -


Mark Kelly had the money to make sure every woman in Arizona saw these pictures weekly, along with video of Masters explaining that anyone that gets an abortion belongs in prison. And for the elderly, there was a steady stream of Masters promising to privatize social security.

Yeah, who really cares about any of that? There's bad video/quotes by everyone - but Kelly owned the airwaves here, and was able to shape a creepy perception of Masters with women.

In the primary, Masters beat a businessman that had made a lot of money in energy. He played football at Alabama. He talked a good game - was tough on the border, law and order, said all the right things about the Left and Biden. But Masters had Trump's backing and a lot of money from Peter Theil, and he was overwhelmed.

McSally had the personality of a Saltine. She was awful. Sinema had a bit of a track record in the AZ senate as a moderate, and she obviously has personality. That was McSally loss #1. When McSally lost to Kelly, she still had the personality of a Saltine, and had already been rejected by AZ voters only 2 years before in the race -v- Sinema.