AR Congressional Races 2014

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Money quote from that article I posted: "Mark Pryor followed his dad into politics. I followed my dad into the infantry." I guess he'll take shots at Bubba too when the time comes.

Should have stayed there. We don't need their kind meddling in our politics.

So you're saying Jack Reed, John Kerry, and Max Cleland shouldn't have gotten involved in politics?

Yup. Down with the militarists. We got enough of 'em among the civvies. No need for more in politics.

Dwight Eisenhower?

I am all for service members serving in political office, just not ones that are politically idiots.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Not a bad review. Also, the AEA will endorse Pryor as expected.

"The last decent Republican was Herbert Hoover."

...LOL!!

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Pryor's latest ad is a contrast on Medicare.

I've watched this ad about four times, and I can't decide if it's good or not. Pryor is obviously a terrible "actor," but the message is good? I don't know.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Sabato moves Arkansas senate race:

Leans R --> Tossup

http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/category/2014-senate/

Still waiting on that KY to go from Likely R to Lean R...

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

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

Doesn't it make sense that they oversample Democrats because there are significantly more registered Democrats in Arkansas than Republicans?

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Boozman is definitely running for reelection.

Beebe is already 67, I can see a challenge to Boozeman by him at less than a 50% chance of happening. If Beebe doesn't run, who else would?

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

No idea. Maybe Jerry knows?

Rothenberg: Pryor's still the most vulnerable senator.

How the hell is John Walsh not considered the most vulnerable senator??

[Edit]: He also called Blank-Stare Lincoln "personable..."

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Right to Life endorses Cotton.

Brummett says Talk Business poll will be out this week. I'm guessing a small Pryor lead.

I thought Pryor was pro-life??

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Yikes: a Cotton staffer, when talking to the Grauniad, said “I don’t see that [he's unapproachable and rigid]. Maybe he’s a little on a different intellectual level. But I don’t see he’s unapproachable.” Cleanup in Aisle 5. Sounds like Biden's '88 IQ exchange, and the exact sort of thing that those positive ads are trying to defuse.

Sounds to me like the opposite of the Renee Elmers (R-NC) thing where she said men need to tone down the intellect when talking to women. This won't make much of a difference, especially since it was buried in the article, but someone is definitely fired.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Good news for Pryor/Ross:

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For reference, PPP did a poll in April which had support for minimum wage increase at 56%, 36% oppose. Other polls from local Arkansas news outlets has support floating between 55 and 65.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

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Say what you want about Harry Reid, but he isn't a Wall Street stooge.
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[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

Alan Grayson has choice words about Tom Cotton.