AR Congressional Races 2014

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Bloomberg attacking Pryor only helps him. Thanks Bloomberg!

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It's really hard to see Pryor winning this. I guess the good news is that he'll at least keep it competitive instead of immediately handing it to the GOP like Blanche Lincoln did.

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SSM ban repeal will be on the ballot next year.

I'm not sure why they're bothering to try. Arkansas won't have majority support for gay marriage until several decades after SCOTUS forces it on them.

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I want Pryor to win of course, but it wouldn't exactly break my heart if he lost either (unless his seat was the tipping point, which it probably won't be).

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Why is it that moderate heroes always oppose things that are supported by a vast majority of the public? Public option, minimum wage increase, etc.

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It didn't seem like Pryor was actually attacking Cotton's military service. Just a poorly worded comment trying to connect the reporter's question to his "entitlement narrative" regarding Cotton.

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Uh. No. This is a minor gaffe if anything. Pryor flat out says seconds before that he respects and is grateful for Cotton's service in the military. All he said was that fighting in Iraq doesn't qualify you to be US Senator. Would any of you argue that it does? sawx? RB?

Source around 1:30.

"I have total respect for that, I appreciate that, I will never criticize anyone for their service for our country and I thank him for that... In the Senate we have all kinds of different people, all kinds of different folks who have come from all kinds of different backgrounds, and I think that's part of this sense of entitlement that he gives off... is that almost it's like "I served in the military, therefore, elect me to the Senate." That isn't how it works in Arkansas.

Please, Clinton, explain to me how this isn't a dig at Cotton's military service, because I'm dying to know.

He's basically saying that Cotton has no experience or accomplishments in the political sphere due to only using the House as a stepping stone to the Senate, and thus only has his military background to fall back on when campaigning.

Again, it was kind of poorly worded and he is treading into somewhat dangerous waters here, but I wouldn't categorize it as an "attack on Cotton's service".

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Cotton got married yesterday. Pryor already congratulated him. US Senate seat ain't a bad wedding gift.

His wife is pretty!

Cotton is prettier more handsome...

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Hasn't Pryor already said this months ago? Or maybe he said "I don't regret voting for it", which is essentially the same thing.

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Looks like rumors of Pryor's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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46-43 Pryor. Too bad PPP won't look here... undecided should be breaking Republican, similar to MO 2012.

Yes, Pryor is definitely the 2014 Mccaskill!
Tight election, maybe a slight underdog, but not definitely doomed like some people think.

Yeah, hopefully this puts the "Pryor will lose by a Blanche Lincoln like margin or worse" idiocy to rest.

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Man, some of you people are so fickle. Last week Pryor was going to lose by a bigger margin than Blanche Lincoln, and this week he's the clear favorite to win?

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Cotton releases an internal with him up 42-40: http://atr.rollcall.com/cotton-internal-poll-finds-senate-race-in-dead-heat/

Cotton's pollster criticizes the Marist poll for oversampling Democrats. Meanwhile, his internal poll has party registration evenly divided (lol).

Don't internals usually have about a 6 point bias? Sounds about right.

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This is a bit off topic, but I'm sure somebody who knows Arkansas can answer this:

In 2008, Pryor ran unopposed. His only opponent was a Green Party candidate who was to the left of him, and they got about 20% of the vote. Did most of their vote come from liberals who were frustrated with Pryor, or from staunch right-wingers who would refuse to vote for any Democrat under any circumstances? I know it was likely a combination of both, but which was more prevalent?

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Cotton doubles down on farm bill vote, compares food stamp recipients to addicts.

Holy f***ing sh*t. I don't think I've ever seen someone more elitist in my life.

The Huffington Post fooled you, that's not actually what he said if you read the context.

Still a disgusting policy position to have though, since everyone (including Cotton) knows that 95%+ of food stamp recipients are law abiding Americans, and it's been proven that drug testing all of them just wastes money.

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PPP has Beebe leading Boozman 46-40 in a potential 2016 Senate race. Hopefully he runs.

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Senate Conservatives Fund endorses Cotton.

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lol

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Senate Conservatives Fund endorses Cotton.

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lol

Well, if you compare Pryor with Cotton, Pryor is indeed a liberal.

No, Pryor would still be a moderate and Cotton a far-right winger.

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Sabato moves the Senate race back to Lean R.

Pryor and Corbett have equal odds of being re elected.

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CD2: Outside groups and NRCC will swoop in soon to help Hill.

Why bother? As every pundit says, this race is clearly Lean R!

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DGA triages Ross, RIP

Such a shame, Ross was a great candidate. But you have to pick your battles with only 3 weeks left. If Pryor doesn't improve in the next batch of polls, it's probably time to cut him loose as well.

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With Pryor getting Blanched tonight (seriously, DAYUM) you have to wonder if this race was ever actually competitive.

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Yeah, I thought of that as well, Miles. Somewhere in her lobbyist office Blanche Lincoln is smiling, knowing it wasn't all her fault...

It's funny because the conventional wisdom was that if she never got primaried, she still would've lost badly, but she might've been able to keep it to a 10 point or so loss rather than a 21 point one. Pryor didn't get primaried and only performed marginally better.