The Arizona Immigration Bill Seems To Have Created A New Swing State

The law, along with other what Campbell called “extremist” measures from the Republican-controlled state government (including Gov. Jan Brewer’s war on the state’s independent redistricting board) have left the GOP in bad shape among the electorate and Democrats looking better and better.

He pointed to record-high turnout in municipal elections like the Phoenix mayoral race which put Democrats in office across the state this month. Those results were fueled in part by huge turnout numbers from the Latino demographic, Campbell said, and in part by a more moderate base that’s had enough.

“There is a change happening,” he said. “I don’t think it’s a change in terms of Arizona itself. I’m a native, and Arizona’s always been a pretty middle of the road state, it’s always been pretty centrist — it’s just a change in who’s getting out to vote now.”


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