Arizona Capitol Times Managing Editor Matt Bunk talks about Sen. John McCain's steady climb in the polls against primary contender J.D. Hayworth and how Arizona's primary election has shaped up in the final days leading up to it on NPR's Morning Edition.

Turnout is expected to be between 20-25 percent of registered voters, the range seen in Arizona's recent primary elections.

After the Citizens Clean Elections Commission and two judges found Doug Quelland guilty of misusing the state’s public campaign financing system, he fought for months to stay in the Legislature, maintained that he was innocent even after being removed from office and is now using government money, once again, to pay for his comeback campaign.

As John McCain and J.D. Hayworth have dominated Arizona's political headlines, four Democrats are quietly wrangling for the chance to take on the winner.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, Attorney General Terry Goddard, says the public is at risk in Arizona because of what he calls "a climate of permissiveness" toward private prisons.

Attorney General Terry Goddard unveiled his jobs plan, saying Gov. Jan Brewer has done little to ease Arizona's massive unemployment rate.

Arizona Sen. John McCain and Rep. Jeff Flake are holding a town hall meeting in Gilbert on Thursday.

State treasurer isn’t the political plum that other executive offices have been for ambitious politicians, but some of this year’s candidates are raising and spending money like the office is the first step toward the Ninth Floor, Congress and beyond.

State Treasurer Dean Martin's campaign for the Republican nomination for governor was short on cash before qualifying for $707,000 in public funding in late June, but he then paid more than $130,000 to his campaign manger and other consultants in the 11 days before he suspended his campaign.

State treasurer candidate Doug Ducey had a lien placed on his Paradise Valley home for failure to pay property taxes, and paid two years worth of taxes shortly after he filed to run for office, according to the Maricopa County Assessor’s Office.