Isn't Rosen stronger than Sinema though? I feel like Rosen is more "safe". Sinema has carefully crafted her image these past years and it's helped her, but I just know Ward will bring up the "childless atheist lesbian Satan worshipper" angle. Because she has nothing else going for her.
Can you imagine the backlash in this day and age that would receive though? Elizabeth Dole got blown out after she tried similar tactics against Hagan.
Elizabeth Dole got backlash because it was a complete and obvious lie that Hagan was an Atheist, due to the fact that Hagan taught Sunday School in a Presbyterian Church at the time. But with Sinema, while she refuses to call herself an athiest, it's pretty obvious that's what she is. So the attack would have a chance of working.
Maybe in certain regions and circles (Paul Gosar's entire district of fruit loops comes to mind), but going that low would firebomb Ward's chances with virtually every other voter bloc in the state. Arizona has never been a hardcore Religious Right place, and we're moving left by the day.
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