Arizona is in play - Polls show it is a virtual tie between Obama and R'Money!

[jillan]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/23/poll-obama-and-romney-tied-in-arizona/

Arizona, which has voted for only one Democratic presidential candidate in sixty years, has become a hot battleground in 2012, partly because of the state's increasing Latino population.

The poll from Arizona State University's Merrill/Morrison Institute indicated 42% of registered voters in Arizona backing Romney and 40% supporting Obama. The margin was well within the poll's sampling error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.

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There is still 18% undecided.... so that could change things, and is another reason why I am hoping upon hope that Obama and Biden spend more time here. (besides the fact that I want to see them )

Considering too that approx 6% of the population of Arizona is Mormon - you can be sure R'Money is getting that vote - and President Obama is still within the margin of error!

Now excuse me while I do my happy dance... It's not every day that I can report exciting news from Brewerland.

[tanyev]

1. If we win it, we need to send lots of thank you notes to Sheriff Joe and Gov. Brewer.

[jillan]

3. I really think they have pushed their hatred too far. People are pissed. I know repubs that

want Arpaio to disappear.

[Alexander]

2. Romney is doing terribly with Latinos, and it will cost him the Southwest.

This election looks more and more like a repeat of 1996 with each passing day.

And who won Arizona in 1996? Bill Clinton.

[jillan]

4. That was a happy day when Clinton won Az. It will even sweeter if Obama wins this year.

[Alexander]

6. I certainly hope Obama increases his popular and electoral vote margins from 2008.

That probably means we'll get back the House and keep the Senate.

From what I understand in these very early polls, Obama is on track to do just that, although I keep hearing Indiana is a lost cause. I find that puzzling given that Obama managed to win Indiana in 2008.

[zbdent]

5. I've said it earlier ... if really true (and the "liberally-biased corporate media" has yet to

really turn on the smear on Obama), the idea that Mitt might lose conservative ARI-f*cking-ZONA means that Mitt is TOAST ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002603516#post1

[jillan]

7. IF Obama does win Az, I think it would really send a message to the rw wackos & to the media

to rethink their hatred.

[grantcart]

9. That's the irony

Because they selected Romney the right wing will say that they just didn't try true Evangelical Right Wing Ideology.

They will say that they lost because they just weren't crazy enough.

[grantcart]

8. Moving to Yuma and registering there.

[sweetloukillbot]

10. I live here and will work to make it happen....

But I'll be VERY surprised if it is remotely close. I just don't know that the Latino vote will outweigh the Mormon vote from the East Valley, or the evangelical vote from the West Valley. The crazy is strong here - although I AM seriously hoping we can send Krysten Sinema to the House now that I've been gerrymandered out of Ben Quayle's district.

[jillan]

14. I would love to see Krysten Sinema get elected to the House! Look out Congress!!

What part of the valley are you in?

I'm in Chandler now, moving to the Scottsdale/Tempe area as soon as my house sells.
Chandler is SO red, I'm actually afraid to put my Obama bumpersticker on my car. My neighbors across the street have their teabagger stickers on their SUVs. I can't wait to get out of this part of town

[Iliyah]

11. All those crazy bullshit bills

passing and the governor, whose a female signing them, yea I would say AZ is in play. I mean one states that a women is preggers two weeks before actually being preggers? What kind of BS is that!

And that horrible immigration law that the 5 conservative justices may uphold is beyond WRONG.

[Honeycombe8]

12. Really? That's amazing. nt

[secondwind]

13. Awesome news! K&R

[ChazInAz]

15. I expected it.

My fellow Arizonans have had long and bitter experience with the likes of Mitt Romney. Our state is in its wretched condition due to fantastically wealthy businessmen, who have no decency and no understanding of honesty. Such people made us a "Right to Work State" and have kept the citizenry poor and desperate since 1912. We know the enemy when we see him in all his shifty, smarmy glory.

[Tumbulu]

16. I do not trust Arizona to be safe place for our President to visit

These creeps in charge now give me the feeling of Dallas in the early 60's....please, please don't let our President set foot there......