I've long held Sen. Kyl in high regard, as he was, in contrast to McCaint Tell The Truth, always rated as one of the most conservative senators. I even touted him as a Vice-Presidential candidate in 2012. By senate rules, his seniority is only relative to other senators in his class. In reality, with his three terms in the Senate and eight years in the House, his historic seniority puts him in the top ten of most senior senators. This could allow him to assume high level responsibilities, like assuming his previous position of party whip, or Chuck Grassley's Chairmanship of The Judiciary Committee, as Sen. Grassley becomes Senate President Pro Tem.
In the regularly scheduled Senate contest to replace the retiring Jeff the Flake, Air Force colonel and House member Martha McSally will be a good second senator from Arizona, giving us (US) two good Arizona senators for the first time in my memory.
McSally was not my first choice in the party primary, as she was the Repulsican establishment's candidate and endorsed by Mitch McConnell. She was a command combat fighter pilot who achieved her O-7 rank through merit and achievement, unlike McCaint Tell The Truth, who obtained his through familial connections. She also had the ovaries to successfully sue Donald Rumsfeld and the Defense Department for his and its order to Middle East deployed female military personnel to dress as Muslim women. 
Liberal lawyer Krysten Sinema, a publicly proclaimed bisexual who started her political career as a Green Party activist, reminiscent of community organizer Baracka Hussein Obama, is the Demoncat candidate. She touts herself as a conservative Blue Dog Dummycrap. I can only hope that enough Arizona voters will see through that. The pollsters are calling this race a toss-up, or even a flipping Lean D. I just don't see it happening. I think that Arizonans will appreciate the opportunity to vote for a real war hero fighter pilot. I also think that Sinema will lose votes to her previous party's candidate, Eve Reyes-Aguirre.
In deep south Mississippi, I foretell that its voters will return both R's to their Senate seats. Even the pollsters predict both seats as Safe R. 
Cindy Hyde-Smith may have to go through more than tenured Roger Wicker, who is in a four party race. She was just appointed this year to the seat vacated by retiring forty year senator Thad Cochran. As there are two R's and two D's running for this seat, and a majority vote is required, she will probably have to go trough a run-off election on November 27th, probably against flamboyant Mike Espy, a partial term Clinton cabinet member and liberal state legislator.
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