According to a friend, CNN announced that Jim Pederson was ahead based on early votes. However, I found the info here.
I guess the Democratic Party is buying up the air time with Pederson ads based on this news.
This article appears in Nov 2-8, 2006.

Poker players are opposed to Jon Kyl? Who knew!
But this “lead” is still projected by a poll, not based on actual counts of actual ballots, which has not happened yet.