Joe Arpaio is no longer Sheriff.
This is an historic moment for Maricopa County and the Phoenix Metro Area. I didn't think we would get rid of him until he died.
The fact that he's being replaced by a somewhat moderate alternative gives me hope for the future.
But this really is a special moment for my community. I hope DU realizes the gravity of this change. We just kicked "America's Toughest Sheriff" out on his ass.
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Gravitycollapse!
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I'm not going to put all my marbles in that basket just yet though 
Yes, Douchy next would be great.
*titled thusly not because of the inevitable blue tsunami on the horizon but for the current sad state of affairs, i.e.:
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/27/14078646/north-carolina-political-science-democracy
How to measure democratic decline
Here, Reynolds is drawing on research he’s conducted alongside Aarhus University's Jørgen Elklit and Harvard/University of Sydney's Pippa Norris through the Electoral Integrity Project. The cornerstone of the project, which Norris and two other collaborators described for Vox here, is the Perceptions of Electoral Integrity survey, which asks political experts in each country where it's conducted a battery of questions about each stage of elections, from whether ballots are fairly tallied to whether newspapers provide voters with adequate information to whether districts are divided fairly. Their responses are then tallied into ratings on a 0 to 100 scale: 100 indicating electoral processes with the most integrity, 0 with the least.
NC got the headlines but AZ actually scores the worst among U.S. states.
maybe one that will get down to doing the sheriff's job and stop trying to do CBP's and ICE's.
