arizona electorate describes themselves as independent or moderate. those are the people that kyrsten sinema is trying to appeal to, but then you look even further and look at where republicans end up, about 9% of republicans ended up voting for the democrat in both the senate race and in the governor s race. and that means that there is about 10% of the republican party that is up for grabs. if you add up those two numbers, you are getting pretty close to the possibility that she could compete as an independent. i think that sinema sees the maverick seat that used to be occupied wouby john mccain as bg open and the question is can she execute that move before she faces voters again. so then let s ask a republican to weigh in on perhaps what is her deficit. she is not polling well among democrats in arizona. she says she is doing it for the collective good, that the country in her view should be moving toward the middle because