Deletion of Jesse Kelly

Comment: Significant race, received lots of secondary source attention. Satisfies  pretty squarely. At some point, we really should have a centralized discussion about major-party candidates for national office in the US, but this one we can decide w/o such a discussion
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: to United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2010#District 8 as suggested by Melanie.  The arguments I read above for keeping are that "a 'finalist' candidate for a national seat... should be notable", that "major party candidates for national office are notable", that it was a "significant race" and that he "came very close".   hasn't yet been expanded to be ''that'' inclusive, and this person is not notable outside of the election that's referred to in the redirect target
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: or '''Redirect''' to United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 2010#District 8. He is not notable for anything except being an unsuccessful candidate for office. All news coverage is about the election and his candidacy, not about him. The "national coverage" cited by DGG consists mostly of general articles about the election in Arizona, in which Kelly gets a passing mention. IMO he fails  and . Note that other people who ran close but unsuccessful races for Congress have tended to be deleted or redirected; see, for example, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andy Vidak. (This is cited, not as an example of , but rather of ommon outcomes.) Please note also that ommon outcomes says plainly that "Candidates for a national legislature/parliament or other national office are not viewed as having inherent notability
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:BIO||WP:OTHERSTUFF||WP:C||WP:C)