the Joe Arpaio reign of terror may be nearing its end

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Joe Arpaio really makes me wonder if the principle of checks and balances can't be more strongly applied to the position of the county sheriff. It's awful what he's gotten away with doing. And yet he's been reelected - how many times was it?

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Joe Arpaio really makes me wonder if the principle of checks and balances can't be more strongly applied to the position of the county sheriff.  It's awful what he's gotten away with doing.

he's been in trouble in the courts plenty of times.  in addition to what I wrote above, Arpaio's jail conditionss were found in violation of the cruel & unusual punishment clause both in 2008 and 2010.  

...yet, little changes.  why?  it may be instructive to recall President Jackson's famous words: "the Court has made their decision, now they can enforce it".  Arpaio's attitude is much the same; he has no "respect for the rule of law", as we say in polite liberal discourse.

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1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012.  the last two times the main Dem opponent got 42.5% and 44%.  I have not seen any exit polls, but we can imagine that race is as strong a variable in these elections as it is in the Deep South.  

the 2010 Census has Maricopa County holding strong at 58%+ white non-Hispanic.  that's plenty of racial wiggle-room for Arpaio.  he could lose a good quarter or third of the white non-Hispanic vote, lose the Hispanic + nonwhite vote by a 9:1 ratio, and still come out on top.

Many Hispanics there are noncitizens/nonvoters.

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that's part of my point.  58% white non-Hispanic in the Census could well mean 65% or 70% of likely voters.

okay, but I don't see the comparison with the Deep South in that case.