Multiple Arizona Republicans are already suggesting Tuesday's elections are rigged if they don't win

There is something about the desert southwest that breeds conspiracy theories. Maybe it's a result of uranium mining. Maybe there's something in the water. My own theory is that it is the heat, and the heat alone. When the heat tops 110 degrees and stays there for days or weeks, I expect we will someday find out that it slow-cooks the human brain like the chunk of meat that it is. After 10 years of living in the California or Arizona or Nevada desert, your brain begins to resemble a flame-broiled Whopper, and that's where the conspiracy theories come from. They come from the little charred bits around the edges. Go to any small desert town, one small enough that you'll never see 10 people inside the same stores at the same time, and you can be assured of quickly stumbling on a crank who will tell you anything with a straight face.

That is where alien sightings come from. It's where cloudy-eyed mutterers pick over scraps left by prospectors a hundred years back, after those prospectors had their own brains charbroiled and ran off to parts unknown. It is how you end up with clown motels.