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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongratulations, Republicans
You only had to spend $1 million-plus to barely hold onto Joe Arpaio's home district.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,762 posts)Or words to that effect.
Yup, Congratulations, Republicans!
TomSlick
(11,126 posts)The name sake of the Pyrrhic victory.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,762 posts)I appreciate your efforts!
flotsam
(3,268 posts)Pyrrhic victory is named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC and the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC, during the Pyrrhic War.
The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one other such victory would utterly undo him.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,762 posts)I know I should have looked it up myself, but I knew that you clever folk here would know.
I appreciate the details too.
marybourg
(12,648 posts)We're not upscale enough. He does live in the same county, however