By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services/Arizona Daily Sun
The state’s Republican Party has a message for the faithful: We’re not as big a bunch of losers as the Democrats.
In a newsletter Friday to party members, Chairman Robert Graham boasted that the voter registration lead over the Dems has grown in the last year. He said that now gives the GOP a 5.5 percent advantage “and we’re not letting up.”
What Graham didn’t mention is that his party actually lost 17,272 adherents. Meanwhile the number of Arizonans who don’t want to be associated with any of the political parties increased by more than 43,000 and now stands at nearly 1.17 million — close to 36 percent of all registered voters — with there now being 53,000 more independents than Republicans.
So why are Republicans crowing?
