65.91% in; Ron Barber (D) leads Jesse Kelly (R) 52.57% to 44.74% in AZ-08 House race

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/AZ/37946/85806/en/summary.html

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. So when does teabag kelley ask for a recount?

Looks like I get to stay in Az.

[freshwest]

2. Ah, yes, probably won't concede, will he? Ugh...

[Sparky00]

3. Won't need to;

looks like he's gettin' spanked. I doubt he'll get close enough for an automatic recount, so I'd say this one is in the bag for Barber. Thank Heavens for a little sunshine in an otherwise dreary year, eh?

[freshwest]

4. Yes, it does take away some of the hurt. Thanks.

[Sparky00]

5. AZ Sec/State just updated it.

With 86.36% reported, Barber has 52.29% (98,544) over 45.08% (84,957) for Kelly. This thing is done.

Tea Parties are indeed for little girls...

[Tx4obama]

6. It's been called by The AP. Barber won. n/t

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. !!!

[RBInMaine]

8. Note how the AP calls him "Giffords' handpicked candidate" and is soft on the TeaBagger. AP=Fox.

AP is no better than FAKE News. Such corporate right wing shit. Still, they are right that this was testing ground for the November message war. If Dems model this campaign, attack the right wingers as the extreme nutballs that they are, and focus on MEDICARE MEDICARE MEDICARE AND SS SS SS, they WIN. We WIN on the ISSUES. We need to define our right opponents CLEARLY and continue to HAMMER THEM HARD, and we need to define OURSELVES clearly as the CHAMPIONS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS and of MEDICARE AND SS.