AR-04/Talk Business & Hendrix College: Ross (D) can lean back and chill

[Tender Branson]

49% Mike Ross (D-Inc.)
31% Beth Anne Rankin (R)
  4% Joshua Drake (G)
16% Undecided

Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Mike Ross?

53% Favorable
31% Unfavorable

The poll was conducted Wednesday and Thursday through automated phone calls to 956 registered voters in the 4th District who said they were likely to vote in the Nov. 2 general election. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.2 percent.

http://arkansasnews.com/2010/08/30/poll-ross-has-18-point-lead-over-rankin-in-4th-district/

[Tender Branson]

With leaners it is:

53% Mike Ross (D-Inc.)
36% Beth Anne Rankin (R)
  5% Joshua Drake (G)
  6% Undecided

[Iosif]

A historically epic wave of epically historic proportions(tm) and the Pubbies can't take down an incumbent in an R+7 district in Arkansas in a midterm with a black man in the white house.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I want to believe this, but I can't.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

A historically epic wave of epically historic proportions(tm) and the Pubbies can't take down an incumbent in an R+7 district in Arkansas in a midterm with a black man in the white house.

Rankin is a terrible candidate and Ross is essentially a Republican.

[Iosif]

Having Democratic congressmen that are essentially Republican won't help the Republicans win the house.

How many uber-conservative Democrats are going to keep their seats anyway?

[You kip if you want to...]

Having Democratic congressmen that are essentially Republican won't help the Republicans win the house.

No, but the Democrats holding the house by virtue of a few Blue Dogs who always vote with the GOP on anything important won't make the Democrats look too amazing either.

[DrScholl]

Not surprising at all. Ross would be a solid vote against things like social security privatization and dismantling Medicare, so in that aspect, he's not like a Republican.

[Brittain33]

Having Democratic congressmen that are essentially Republican won't help the Republicans win the house.

No, but the Democrats holding the house by virtue of a few Blue Dogs who always vote with the GOP on anything important won't make the Democrats look too amazing either.

Yes, that would be a disastrous outcome for the Dems, although I don't think of Ross as one of the Dems who would truly make us look bad, since I assume he'd still support Pelosi for speaker. Having a majority consisting of Boren, Taylor, Minnick, and Bright and maybe a very scared and overreacting Barrow would be ugly.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Shays survived 2006, as did Gerlach. They can't all lose.