AR-PPP: Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) trails a few Republican nobodies

[Sam Spade]

The State Senate leader (D) has been looking to challenge Lincoln from the right. (there are recent articles on this)

Given the polling we've seen out of Arkansas of late, if things continue on their present pace (big if), I don't see how Lincoln survives.

[Sam Spade]

Lincoln has always underperformed, so not that surprising. Interesting to here of a possible primary challenge.

http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=baxterbulletin&sParam=31432583.story

[Sam Spade]

Louisiana also has a large leftist base.

Couldn't stop laughing when I saw this comment.  Probably goldmine material.

I mean, I'm sure there are a decent number of white precincts in New Orleans and some college precincts elsewhere that qualify, but... 

[Sam Spade]

Louisiana also has a large leftist base.

Couldn't stop laughing when I saw this comment.  Probably goldmine material.

I mean, I'm sure there are a decent number of white precincts in New Orleans and some college precincts elsewhere that qualify, but... 

You don't think that blacks are more left wing in Louisiana than in other southern states? New Orleans is as strong Democratic as any Northern city. That qualifies as left wing, and automatically gives any Democratic candidate some sort of base.

Orleans County voted for Mondale at almost 60%. It is pretty leftist.

Blacks are not particularly left-wing in any Southern state.  Sure, they want their handouts but on most social issues they can make me look like a flaming liberal. 

I might advise you to actually go the 'hood in New Orleans or Shreveport or go to Baton Rouge or talk with a rural Louisiana black before calling them "left-wing".  I have always found quite a lot in common with those that I've met either in these areas or from these areas politically.

I should also point out that the blacks in New Orleans are only about 25% of the blacks in Louisiana.  A lot of other blacks live in the urban areas of Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Monroe, but there are also a lot of rural blacks (common in the Deep South)

Also, as DWTL pointed out, it's Parish, not County.