As a State Senate candidate, I’ve recently been the subject of a couple of “Internet polls,” in which website visitors are asked to vote for rival candidates. Even to discuss an Internet poll probably grants it too much importance, because there is no relation between actual voter behavior and [...]
Blogging machine Jason Tolbert has a good post over at The Tolbert Report touching on Republican Senate hopeful Conrad Reynolds’ plans for financing his 2010 campaign. Reynolds, like many of the Republican hopefuls, has been slow off the mark in raising money for the race. As of the [...]
…is the air escaping from the rapidly deflating balloon of Mike Huckabee’s future political aspirations.
Post from: The Arkansas Project
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Say, you know who’s breathing a sigh of relief this morning? Sen. Blanche Lincoln — because for once people will be talking about terrible poll numbers that aren’t hers.
Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-leaning firm out of North Carolina, reports that a [...]
Arkansas GOP Rep. Dan Greenberg (an Arkansas Project contributor) will make his candidacy for the state Senate seat in District 22 official this evening (Thursday) with a formal announcement on the Saline County Courthouse lawn in Benton at 6 p.m. Come one, [...]
State Sen. Tracy Steele, a term-limited Democrat, sends word that he’ll run for the Arkansas House of Representatives in District 39. The seat is currently held by first-term Democratic Rep. Richard Carroll. (Carroll was elected as a Green Party representative in 2008 but changed his party affiliation in April [...]
If you’re one of the many, many Republican primary candidates in the U.S. Senate race shaping up here in Arkansas, most of whose campaigns are under-performing financially, here’s a friendly reminder that campaign fundraising often gets pretty tough around the holidays.
Like, see that week [...]
At long last, the off-year elections for the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia and for the open Congressional seat in New York House District 23 will be decided, meaning that soon we can all go back to not caring about these places anymore.
I’m going to go ahead and get [...]
Roby Brock at Talk Business fires up his magical mystical polling machine yet again for a slew of questions on political and public affairs matters in Arkansas.
Among the top-line results: A notable degradation in Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s numbers from the last Talk Business [...]
J.R. Dallas of Fort Smith, former head of the Arkansas Air National Guard 188th Fighter Wing, will announce Monday that he’s running for the Arkansas House of Representatives seat representing District 63, according to the City Wire in Fort Smith. Dallas will run as a Republican, so he’ll face [...]
Perennial Democratic candidate Drew Pritt sends along word that he, too, will join the ever-expanding universe of Arkansas people who think that Sen. Blanche Lincoln must be replaced. Full text of Pritt’s news release is at the jump.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact : Drew Pritt at drew@prittforarkansas.com
Drew Pritt, a political [...]
Reed
Do you wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and think, “Hey, I should run for the U.S. Senate!”? If not, you are evidently among the minority of Arkansans.
So go ahead and add former Arkansas Farm Bureau godfather Stanley Reed to the list [...]
Arkansas Sen. Gilbert Baker, frontrunner in the 2010 GOP primary race to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln, announces today that he’s hired former Mike Huckabee spokeswoman Alice Stewart as his campaign mouthpiece.
It’s all in a news release with a comically long headline, [...]
The Tolbert Report is rounding up some of the financial reports from various Arkansas candidates for U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, so to supplement Jason’s efforts I’ve created this handy graph of the financial performance of several of the Senate candidates.
So who will [...]
Keith Crass of Hot Springs, a certified public accountant, announces today that he’ll run for the Arkansas House of Representatives seat in District 24 as a Republican. The seat is currently held by Rep. Rick Saunders, who is term-limited. Full release from Crass at the jump.
CRASS ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR STATE [...]
Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln reports another strong fundraising quarter, with $1.2 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, and a total of $4.13 million on hand.
From the Lincoln campaign:
* For the 3rd quarter (July 1 – September 30, 2009), the [...]
Posting rhythm here has been slow lately, but I’ve been making regular updates and corrections to our list of 2010 candidates as new information is made available, thanks to our readers. Hit the 2010 campaigns button in the right sidebar, or click here, to get to the full [...]
Conrad E. Reynolds
Fun media goof-up story from Roll Call today about one of Arkansas’ many GOP Senate hopefuls and the news director of the NPR outlet at Arkansas State University.
Candidate Conrad E. Reynolds has been making quite a bit of noise lately with a [...]
Fayetteville Democrat David Whitaker, a former assistant city attorney, announced a couple of days ago that he formed an exploratory committee for a possible run against GOP Rep. John Boozman in the Third District in 2010.
This was rumored on the Arkansas Times blog a couple of weeks back, [...]
Arkansas Sen. Gilbert Baker, who entered the insanely crowded GOP primary for U.S. Senate just a few weeks ago, announces today he raised some $500,000 in the third quarter—a commanding performance that establishes Baker as the front-runner on the GOP side. Baker’s full statement is at the jump.
While [...]
Two more updates in our running lists of 2010 campaigns:
Former state Rep. Ken Cowling, a Democrat, is announcing he’ll run for the District 21 Senate seat in southwest Arkansas, which is being vacated by term-limited Democratic Sen. Barbara Horn. House Majority Leader Steve Harrelson is also running [...]
We haven’t done a “Stuff From Around Arkansas” post in a while. So let’s do one of those, eh, and round up a few things that have been floating around out there the last few days. And incidentally push those horrible Senate' [...]
Since we’ve now dedicated ourselves to hyping every poll that comes out on the 2010 Senate race, let’s hype another, shall we? The liberal Talking Points Memo blog points to new polling results from Rasmussen Reports, and the numbers continue to look ugly [...]
Hunters in Arkansas love two things:
1) Hunting, and
2) Complaining about the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC).
Hunters always think they have better solution to improving the game populations in the state than the people the governor appoints to the commission. After all, for all its [...]
Like his mythical steed, it was as if he was never here.
Oh, so all that business about U.S. Army Capt. Tom Cotton, a Republican, running for U.S. Senate, or maybe the Second District Congressional seat? [...]
("If Lottery Tickets Told The Truth"--click image for more)
If you don’t have anything to do at midnight, then you should go to the big kick-off ceremony for the Arkansas lottery at some random gas station in West [...]
The Arkansas Times’ Max Brantley says Republican Party of Arkansas political director Chase Dugger got the nod to be the party’s next executive director.
Meanwhile, the Arkansas Young Republicans held their annual convention this morning at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and elected Elizabeth Aymond, former communications [...]
Lots of new developments these last few days with some of the Arkansas 2010 political races, and we’ve been updating our running lists of candidates to reflect the new activity.
For your convenience, I’ve added a link to all the campaign tipsheets over in the [...]
You may remember some months ago when Republican Party of Arkansas Executive Director Karen Ray stepped down to move to another state or something. That happened in February, and everyone was very interested in the question of who would replace her, until all of a sudden we weren’t anymore.
Say, [...]
You, there! What are you doing on Saturday? Nothing worthwhile, I assume.
Therefore I suggest you look into attending the Arkansas Society of Professional Journalists Blogging Academy: An Introduction to Community Journalism in Little Rock, where they’ll have a bunch of so-called self-styled “experts”' [...]
Let us cast our memory back fondly to the earlier part of this year, when I speculated that former U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin, who was then weighing a Republican challenge to Sen. Blanche Lincoln, was really interested in running for some OTHER office. Say, [...]
So I’ve been more or less MIA these last few days in an effort to make money, meaning that this absurd blog had to take a back seat. But here, let’s watch this amusing video in which Uncle Sam seeks advice from conservative pundit Tucker Carlson:
Arkansas connection? Well, Carlson [...]
Republican David Branscum of Marshall has announced that he’ll run for the Arkansas House of Representatives in District 90. The seat is currently held by Republican Rep. Roy Ragland, who is term-limited. Branscum’s full news release is at the jump.
Branscum Announces for State Representative
David Branscum, of Marshall, announced his intention [...]
Don’t forget that famed Republican political consultant Ed Rollins will be on hand in Little Rock next week as the keynote speaker at the Pulaski County Republican Committee’s Annual Lincoln/Reagan Dinner. That’s Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., with tickets going for a smooth [...]
As expected, former Arkansas Highway Commission chief Prissy Hickerson, a Texarkana Republican, announces she’ll run for the Arkansas House of Representatives District 1 seat, currently held by Democratic Rep. Steve Harrelson, who is running for state senate. Hickerson’s full release is at the jump.
Prissy Hickerson to Run for Arkansas House
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New polling numbers are out today on Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln and her various GOP challengers, this time from the lefty bloggers at Daily Kos. Let us take a closer look, shall we?
Kos’s numbers show Lincoln polling slightly better than she did in last month’s [...]
If Jason Tolbert stopped granting attention to Tim Griffin’s needy political fantasies, would Griffin go away? Dear God, man, we’ve got to try something!
Post from: The Arkansas Project
[...]Sen. Blanche Lincoln, perhaps feeling the heat now that the Kim Hendren For Senate juggernaut is gearing up, steps things up by announcing that she’ll take over the chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee. Full release at jump.
Lincoln needed some good news after her rather terrible August, and this [...]
Sen. Kim Hendren
By the way, in case you missed it, Arkansas Sen. Kim Hendren says he WILL get in to the Republican primary for U.S. Senate for a shot at challenging Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln in 2010. That’s what he’s telling the Arkansas [...]
You know, blogger Rett Hatcher’s video skills are showing some real improvement. Here’s his takedown of Arkansas House Speaker Robert “Robbie” Wills‘ propaganda ministry, giving a local political spin to a popular Web meme:
While we’re at it, columnist John Brummett had a fine weekend piece taking [...]
All you morning early risers will want to listen to Arkansas Sunday Edition with Blake Rutherford Sunday, where Blake will host a special interview with Sen. Blanche Lincoln, talking about her re-election campaign and all that other stuff. That’s on Little Rock’s 103.7 The Buzz Sunday morning from 7-9 [...]
Former GOP Rep. Jeremy Hutchinson, who’s indicated he’ll run for Arkansas Senate in District 22, sends word that he’ll make the formal announcement on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 12:30 p.m. at the Saline County Courthouse. Hutchinson will face Rep. Dan Greenberg, an Arkansas [...]
I don’t mean to belabor this matter about House Speaker Robbie Wills and his newly established taxpayer-funded propaganda ministry in the Arkansas House of Representatives, but let’s belabor this matter.
Rep. Dan Greenberg, who along with House Minority Leader Bryan King and Rep. Ed Garner has been vocal in opposition [...]
House Speaker Robbie Wills
I spent a good deal of time with radio, TV and print journalists Wednesday discussing Arkansas House Speaker Robbie Wills’s proposed changes to the House Information Office. Somewhere in the middle of these conversations, he called me to clarify his plans and his [...]
Democrat Jesse Boyce, a Beebe businessman, sent word last evening that he’ll run for the Arkansas House of Representatives in District 49. The seat is currently held by Republican Rep. Jonathan Dismang, who is running for Arkansas Senate.
Republican Jeremy Gilliam is said to be eyeing the race, as well.
Boyce’s [...]
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that the House Speaker Robert “Robbie” Wills’ new plan to set up a new ministry of propaganda communications shop for the state House of Representative has not gotten off to an auspicious start.
Here’s [...]
With GOP Sen. Sharon Trusty of Russellville having resigned due to family health issues, and Gov. Beebe setting the process in motion for a special election to fill the District 4 seat, two candidates have announced they’re in the running: former GOP Rep. Michael Lamoureux Russellive and Democratic [...]
Eeeeeeeeee! After months of annoying vacillation, Arkansas Sen. Gilbert Baker has pulled the trigger, announcing today that he is, indeed, jumping into the increasingly crowded Republican primary for U.S. Senate to earn a shot at challenging embattled Democratic U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln. (Politico [...]
I’m heading over to the KARN studios in scenic West Little Rock at 2 p.m., where guest host Alice Stewart will have me and Think Tank blogger Blake Rutherford on to chat about' [...]
