ARIZONA
      Nov. 2, 2010 U.S. Senate

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+John McCain (R) i
1,005,615
 		58.86%
Rodney Glassman (D)
 		592,011
 		34.65%
David Nolan (L)
 		80,097
 		4.69%
Jerry Joslyn (G)
 24,603
 1.44%
write-ins (5)
 6,058
 0.35%
 
 1,708,384
  
Registration: 3,146,148 .  Ballots cast: 1,750,840.
Plurality: 413,604 votes (24.21 percentage points)
 AZ Secretary of State


Notes:  Sen. John McCain (R), the GOP presidential nominee in 2008, won a fifth term, defeating former Tucson City Councilman Rodney Glassman (D)  David Nolan (L), a founding member of the national Libertarian Party, and Jerry Joslyn (G), a tech investor.

Major party primaries were held on Aug. 24.  Three candidates competed for the Republican nomination (1, 2).  McCain won with 333,744 votes (56.25%), defeating Tea Party backed former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth at 190,229 votes (32.06%) and businessman Jim Deakin at 69,328 votes (11.69%); 593,301 votes were tallied. 

On the Democratic side, Glassman, who resigned from the Council to run for Senate, won with 100,307 votes (34.60%) followed by Cathy Eden, who served in the administrations of Govs. Janet Napolitano and Rose Mofford as well as a state legislator and a county manager, at 76,487 votes (26.39%), journalist John Dougherty at 68,589 votes (23.66%), and former labor organizer Randy Parraz at 44,435 votes (15.33%); 289,866  votes were tallied.

The four candidates debated once, on Sept. 26 at KTVK-TV studios in Phoenix (>).

The McCain campaign spent $22.2 million on the cycle compared to $1.3 million for the Glassman campaign (>).


Campaign Managers:
John McCain:  Mark Buse
(May 2010, succeeding Shiree Verdone)  Vice president at ML Strategies, LLC, Jan. 2003-Jan. 2008.  Staff director (Jan. 1999-Jan. 2003) and Republican policy director (1995-99) on the U.S. Senate Committtee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.  Republican staff director on the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Affairs, Subcommittee on Federalism and DC, 1993-95.  Legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. McCain, 1987-1993.  Staff assistant to U.S. Rep. McCain, 1984-1987.  Studied at Georgetown University.

Rodney Glassman:  Bill Romjue
(announced Aug. 30, 2010, succeeding Patrick Mellody)  Most recently campaign manager on Andrew Romanoff's run in the 2010 Democratic primary for U.S. Senate (CO).  State director on Joe Biden's Iowa caucus campaign, announced Mar. 29, 2007.
 Managed Dina Titus' gubernatorial campaign in Nevada, Fall 2006.  Director of Rep. Dick Gephardt's political action committee, the Committee for Effective Government, starting in 1985 as Gephardt  was looking towards his 1988 presidential campaign.  Started working for Sen. Gart Hart in Iowa in the latter part of 1982.  Managed Del. Erwin S. (Shad) Solomon for Attorney General in Virginia, 1981.  State coordinator for the Carter Mondale 1980 Iowa caucus campaign.  Managed Chuck Robb for Lt. Gov. of Virginia in 1977.  Resident of Hartsburg, Missouri.



See also:
Stephen Lemons.  "Rodney Glassman's Campaign Staffers Jumping Ship, Sources Describe Glassman as 'Out of Control.'"   Phoenix New Times, Aug. 20, 2010.

Shira Toeplitz.  "McCain gets serious about primary."  Politico, May 19, 2010.





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