for Random Ammo

In a 1966 song by Buffalo Springfield titled “For What It’s Worth”, writer Stephen stills notices:
Arizona residents might wonder how, in 2011, Arizona State Senate President and author of Arizona Senate
Bill 1070, Russell Pearce, was decisively defeated in a recall election by an
unknown named Jerry Lewis? And how is it that Republican Presidential candidate Mitt
Romney and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Flake might actually lose to their Democratic rivals in
Arizona - a Republican state? Is there something happening here?