Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 8:52 a.m.

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Most (but not all) of Ariz. remains loyal to McCain

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, November 5, 2008

PHOENIX — On North Central Avenue here in Arizona’s capital, there is still a large blue billboard advertising John McCain’s 2004 Senate re-election campaign.

Just across the street from that sign Tuesday morning was a throng of ninth graders who had taken the day off from their local charter school. They held signs of their own, albeit much smaller and made with multicolored markers.

“Honk for Barack” was the main message, and for a state that re-elected McCain with 77 percent of the vote in 2004, quite a few cars were honking. While McCain was defeated in the overall...

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