This race could not have gone better for us. Gabby Giffords, a good moderate Democrat, easily won the Democratic nomination in CD8. AZ-8 is a leaning Republican district were the right Democrat can win. There were three potentially good Democrats in Patty Weiss and Jeff Latas. Giffords showed the strength of her campaign organization by building an impressive campaign and through strong fundraising. But our primary is only half of the story...
On the Republican side, ultra-conservative one note candidate Randy Graf eked out a victory over the more moderate and presumably electable Steve Huffman. This was in spite of quite a lot of spending on the part of the RNC. This was a big loss for the Republican establishment under George Bush.
The only questions left are how strong will Randy Graf (Tom Tancredo's mini me) be in the general? Will the NRCC get behind Graf and will he be able to muster the fundraising to knock-off Giffords, who is an excellent and particularly strong candidate. This one looks good for us... Now if we could only pickup AZ-5 and AZ-1 Arizona would like about right...