Democrats look to flip increasingly ‘purple’ suburbs

By ANGELIKI KASTANIS, JOSH BOAK and DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS | Associated Press
PHOENIX — When Katherine Rutigliano and her husband moved away from San Francisco in 2013, they figured they would never meet a fellow Democrat again.
But housing was affordable around Phoenix. No more cramped condo. No more suffocating mortgage payments. No more tech-boom exhaustion. Everything would be easier for them and their kids in the suburbs — everything, that is, except talking politics with neighbors.