The entire liberal left mise well just write off the Phoenix area entirely. Maricopa County (including Phoenix and all the suburbs) was supposed to help "Turn Arizona Blue!" for the 2004 election. What wound up happening? Look at that one map which shows the margins... it was one of the highest red margins, if not THE highest red margin, on the map. That's what you get when you combine Sun City retirees, Mesa mormons, and Scottsdale blue-bloods... and they ALL turn out and they ALL vote Bush.

Even Arizona's GOVERNOR, a moderate Democrat, only won by selling her soul to Joe Arpaio, the most corrupt law enforcement officer since the Sheriff of Nottingham. This ship has sailed. You people in other states think Bush has hurt your civil rights? You don't know the half of it. Joe and his thugs arrest people and sometimes beat them TO DEATH and they never even had a hearing or got convicted of any crime.

Meanwhile here I was in Tempe voting libertarian (Badnarik), surrounded by unwashed mobs of protest and patchouli as the hippie undergrads all plead with me to vote for a Massachusetts millionaire. And the left wonders why nobody wants to jump on their crusade these days.