Methinks I'm not the only one who may have had a negative reaction to yesterday's e-mail from Arizona Democratic Party Chairman David Waid.

This evening, in another fundraising appeal, the state Party's "Non-Traditional Campaigns Director", Tony Cani, sent another e-mail. This is the relevant part:

We have more information available about the candidates who have filed. Here is a quick snapshot of our numbers statewide; in parenthesis are the numbers from 2004. As you can see, 2006 has the potential to be a groundbreaking year for Arizona Democrats.

Total Number of Democratic Candidates: 92 (82)
Total Number of Offices Contested : 76 (67)
Total Number of Legislative Seats Contested: 69 (64)

In other great news every single Arizona Democrat, whether they live in Tucson, Gilbert, Tempe, or Kingman, has at least one Democratic candidate running for the Legislature in their district that they can support. This has not been the case in years.

Emphasis his.

This is certainly a better picture than was presented last night. It's still a little misleading; "at least one Democratic candidate" in every district is still saying only at least a third of all seats are being contested. Still, kudos for contesting 69 out of 90 legislative seats. That's a nearly 77% rate, much better than the 43% rate we were led to believe last night. This latest e-mail is a much more effective framing of the Party's success.

I'm curious to see how much support we'll receive from the DLCC. This will be a good year to motivate Democratic voters and Democratic-leaning independents to get to the polls. The DNC should be sending some resources here too.

I'm still waiting to see what the level of the Governor's involvement in the Legislative races will be before I donate any money.