Minutemen lost more than House hopeful on Election Day

Randy Graf and the Republicans were not the only ones to get a thumping in Tuesday's election. The Minutemen were thumped, too.
Despite the Minutemen's all-out effort to get Republican Graf into the congressional seat vacated by fellow Republican Jim Kolbe, their man lost his bid — in a Republican-dominated district — to Democrat Gabrielle Giffords.
And if losing weren't enough, Graf, who publicly aligned himself with the Minutemen, failed to carry Cochise County, where the Minutemen have been very active on the border ranches.