AR Congressional Races 2014

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Here's the ad, which reminds everyone who has the R+14 voting record in an R+14 state. Amazingly they're hitting Cotton for opposing Obamacare.

I'm sorry Roguebeaver but this ad doesn't speak about Obamacare.

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He doesn't use the word Obamacare, premiums and pre-existing conditions are mentioned. At any rate here's the "amazing success" video.

My god, Pryor is stupid

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Is Darr a bit a looser? It's the feeling I have toward him.

Is there a dem interested?

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Maybe he wants to mobilize the base?

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What base? With the Greatest Generation gone, Arkansas is now as Republican as Alabama. Enten concludes that at this point, the race leans Cotton.

Arkansas hates Obama, it's sure. But I mean, I have the feeling that it's not a libertarian conservative state. I suppose they oppose Obamacare, like many Americans I guerre, I would like to know their opinion of Farm Bill,... I'm not sure it's unpopular. If it was unpopular, I suppose John Boozman wouldn't have voted this bill in the us senate. Arkansas is not Wyoming or Idaho.

And for the base, even if it's a R+14 state, they have a base. See Halter, he got 48% of the dem vote against Lincoln.

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More Pryor on how awesome Obamacare is. From the same speech: job losses are just part of a capitalist economy. Latter's Kinsleyan: impolitic truth.

"I'm not opposed to earmarks."

I don't know why, but I have the feeling you will dislike him more and more .

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Am I the only guy on this forum who thinks Cotton could easily destroy his opportunity with an extreme comment?

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/democratic-gun-politics-in-arkansas-senate-race-are-already

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Will the NRA endorse Cotton or this lobby will stay neutral?  I guess the NRA won't back one candidate in this race.

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They'll back the man with a lifetime A rating, not the one with a lifetime C- rating.

How to say, I suppose Pryor made a compromise with them behind the scenes. He would have probably voted background check if he knew the NRA would be hostile toward him.
I suppose they will stay neutral.

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A) he swatted that away last year, said through a spox recently that his view has changed. B) there's a disclaimer about the intentionally provocative and contrarian- a key part of his profile- nature of his columns. C) McDonnell's thesis didn't hurt in a purple state, etc. Particularly when the local media isn't touching it, as is the case here.

All this said, I don't agree with a youthful opinion he held 15 years ago and no longer holds.

Not sure haha.

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Cotton will himself destroy his campaign, don't worry about it, it's a question of time!

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Yeah!!!!

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/316159-dscc-hits-cotton-on-threatening-shutdown-over-obamacare

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/tom-cotton-student-loans_n_3692026.html

Yeah Cotton, continue to be totally on the far right on everything!

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Olol. He will attack him on gun control. I think it could be funny. After, I suppose a strong majority supported background check, and Pryor didn't vote for this proposal. I just want to see Cotton attacking him for being not "pro-gun" enough .

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/08/27/tom_cotton_newspaper_column_al_sharpton_and_jesse_jackson_are_race_hustling.html

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I read this article. He just promotes bipartisanship. And honestly, I think he's becoming a populist with farm bill health care,...

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Well, I think I begin to understand why you're so happy with Cotton, Roguebeaver. One of the few neocon rising stars .

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Not surprising.

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Why Begich is more likely to be reelected than Landrieu?

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http://www.pandagon.net/2013/08/congressman-tom-cotton-1997-a-womans-deepest-hope-in-life-is-being-a-good-wife-and-mother/

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Cotton is one of 17 new co-sponsors of Graves' defunding CR.

Will a shutdown hurt the Pubs?

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Today Cotton voted to cut $40 billion from food stamps over the next decade, even though 21.4% of households in his district are on SNAP.  Here's hoping Pryor exploits this properly.

And he voted against bipartisan student loans, whereas he used student loans when he attended Harvard.

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Rubio wants his donors to contribute 10k for Cotton before the Q3 deadline. At this rate, I'm sure they'll be campaigning together next year.

Not surprising, after all, they are politically similar, except on immigration.