AR: Opinion Research Associates: Pryor leads by 10

[morgieb]

Colour me very skeptical.

Though Talk Business does have Pryor leading, so it does look like he's rebounded.

[Person Man]

We could hold the Senate yet if we are doing OK in NC and AR. The economy is OK. The heat's off Obamacare. The wars are basically over. I guess the only way we lose this thing is that we have millions of "missing voters" in 2014. Maybe in a twist of irony they were all raptured?

Seriously though, if Democrats want to be a national party post-Obama, they have to make inroads with their midterm problem. Pushing to the center helped in 2006, but it just made it harder to govern in 2009-10. After Bush won in 2004, a lot of activists were talking about rebuilding the party from the grassroots on up so that we can start winning local elections and then start getting high turnouts and better redistricting. That's the one thing Republicans don't have. They've maxed out in local elections and are approaching the law of diminishing returns with the thuggish grassroots they been building since the 50s.