October 15, 2010 4:00 A.M.

Arizona Democrats in Danger

For an angry electorate, Democrats’ attempts to backtrack on earlier positions may be too little, too late.


Rep. Raul Grijalva (D.) serves a district, the Arizona 7th, that is almost 55 percent Hispanic. He probably wasn’t surprised to hear the crowd cheering in Spanish at Wednesday night’s congressional debate. But he almost certainly wasn’t expecting those cheers to be directed at his opponent. “¡Viva Ruth! ¡Viva Ruth! ¡Viva Ruth!â€