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Paul Craft is a writer and blogger. He graduated from Stanford University, with honors in History, this year.

The J.D. Hayworth Revolution Fizzles Out

Paul Craft wrote on August 25th, 2010 at 5:07 pm

Situated in the ballroom of a northern Scottsdale resort, J.D. Hayworth’s election party was not the passionate populist uprising the campaign may have wished for. more

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Arizona’s Comeback Kid

Paul Craft wrote on July 29th, 2010 at 12:18 am

Earlier this year, JD Hayworth looked likely to pull off an upset and unseat John McCain. Now, with primary day a month away, McCain holds a commanding 20 point lead. more

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Will McCain Share Bennett’s Fate?

Paul Craft wrote on May 13th, 2010 at 10:54 pm

Senator John McCain is still in danger of ending up like Utah’s Bob Bennett: swiftly ejected from public office and scorned by the local GOP that had supported him for so long. more

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Blaming Arizona for Washington’s Failures

Paul Craft wrote on April 28th, 2010 at 9:00 pm

The Grand Canyon State’s legislators are not arbitrarily mean-spirited and racist; rather, they are struggling to find their own solution to the very real problem of lax federal border enforcement. more

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McCain Gets Tough on Border Security

Paul Craft wrote on April 1st, 2010 at 6:13 am

In calling for National Guard troops to guard the Arizona border, Sen. McCain is hoping to use the issue of border security to balance grassroots concerns over his support for immigration reform. more

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Hayworth Closes in on McCain

Paul Craft wrote on March 19th, 2010 at 12:40 pm

Despite a string of high-profile endorsements, the latest Rasmussen poll shows Senator McCain leading primary challenger JD Hayworth by only seven percentage points, down from his 22 point lead in January. more

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Arizona GOP to Moderates: This Party’s Already Full

Paul Craft wrote on March 10th, 2010 at 3:26 pm

For over a decade, registered independents in Arizona have been able to vote in either party’s primary. Now, however, a team of GOP-sponsored lawyers is looking to close the August Republican primary, freezing out moderate voters. more

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McCain’s Risky Anti-Birther Gambit

Paul Craft wrote on February 26th, 2010 at 7:29 am

Senator McCain’s new ad attacking challenger JD Hayworth for his associations with the birther movement could further alienate McCain from the state GOP. Just this week, 40 Republican Arizona state legislators voted for a bill requiring presidential candidates to produce a birth certificate. more

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Hayworth Launches Challenge from the Right

Paul Craft wrote on February 15th, 2010 at 9:28 pm

Earlier today, JD Hayworth, former congressman and talk radio host, officially entered the Arizona Republican Senate primary against John McCain. In his announcement, Hayworth channeled the far-right’s most common complaints against McCain. more

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Can Hayworth Win Moderates?

Paul Craft wrote on February 12th, 2010 at 12:42 pm

Will Hayworth pick up more national and “mainstream” Republican support? His announcement next week will be a big test. more

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McCain’s Stand Against Bernanke: Principle Not Pandering

Paul Craft wrote on January 28th, 2010 at 3:37 pm

Updated: Critics of Sen. McCain are wrong to suggest that his vote against the confirmation of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was motivated by politics. more

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Tea Partiers Turn on Palin for Backing McCain

Paul Craft wrote on January 28th, 2010 at 2:58 pm

Many Sarah Palin supporters have criticized her endorsement of Sen. John McCain’s reelection campaign, even comparing her to that most dreaded of creatures: a RINO. more

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Hayworth Poised to Challenge McCain

Paul Craft wrote on January 26th, 2010 at 1:17 pm

A 2010 Hayworth-McCain battle would, in many respects, fit into a larger political trend in which a conservative GOP candidate like challenges an established, more moderate candidate. more

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How the Teachers’ Unions Wrecked California

Paul Craft wrote on July 23rd, 2009 at 5:18 pm

Proposition 98, passed in 1988 by California voters, created a generous constitutional mandate for education spending. The Golden State’s most recent budget crisis shows loud and clear that Prop 98, a monument to the influence of California’s teachers’ unions, is more trouble than it is worth. more

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