Arizonans, can’t you do something to shut your loud-mouthed senators up? We are sick to death of hearing them.
Flake has over a year left in office and NOTHING to lose. McCain? Nothing to lose, but an indefinite departure date.
Get used to hearing them for a while.
Flake isn’t running because he was polling in the TEENS. He ran 5 years ago as a Tea Party conservative.
ACU gives him a lifetime rating of 93, but this year’s rating was 79. FreedomWorks gives him a lifetime score of 95. Heritage gives him a lifetime score of 73, a current year of 67, and the average Republican senator 56.
When he was in the House, he was reasonably conservative. Nothing in his lifetime record indicated he would go hard left the day after the election - which is what he did. And Arizona was looking for a chance to get rid of him, which is why his polling was in the teens.
Flake is backed by the large Mormon population, just as McCain is backed by retired military REMF.