Forty-five minutes ago, I wrote “because the candidates’ unknowns seem to be factoring into the results, there is room for Causey to rapidly make up ground by defining himself and his opponent more clearly and by controlling the narrative.” It’s…
Tag: AR-01
Arkansas Election Line: AR-01 "Leans Crawford"
The Arkansas Election Line — a collaboration of Talk Business, The Tolbert Report, and Blue Hog Report — announces the first of two changes in our analysis of U.S. Congressional races. In AR-01, the Election Line moves its rating from…
Think Tank Memorial End-of-Day Miscellany
[For an explanation of the title, see here.] Here’s what I didn’t get to on a sloooow news day: Jason Tolbert covered the Mike Beebe Campaign Kick-off event today, and noted that the ol’ Gov isn’t singing the same song…
HCR, etc.: If I Am Elected, I Will Bring The Dodo Back From Extinction
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo looks at what won’t happen even if the Democrats lose the House in November. The Democrats passed Health Care Reform. They passed Financial Services Reform. And though they’ll likely not get credit for it…
AR-01: Why One Crawford Donor Should Give You Pause
One of my favorite clichéd bits of wisdom is “tell me about your friends, and I will tell you about yourself.” (I am also partial to never get less than twelve hours sleep, never play cards with a guy who…
Green Party Picks Candidates
The Green Party of Arkansas had their nominating convention Saturday at Juanita’s. Via Talk Business, we see that they have fielded candidates in most of the big races, including AR-Sen and AR-Gov as well as three of the four Congressional…
Econ 101: Austerity Has Unicorns
It’s not my intention to turn this blog into all-econ, all the time. But, maybe, if we repeat it enough, this message will get through to the amazing number of Arkansans who don’t get it, especially those in office or…
AR-01: Causey Raises Over $400K In Second Quarter
Via a press release from the Chad Causey camp: JONESBORO- Through a competitive six-way primary and hard-fought runoff election, Chad Causey raised over $416,000 dollars for the second quarter of 2010, building on the strong momentum the campaign started in…
AR-01: Karmic Smackdown…ENGAGE!
June didn’t turn out to be too kind to Tim Wooldridge. First, he loses the runoff election to Chad Causey. Now it seems that he’s been canned from his paying gig as well. File this under “Couldn’t Happen To A…
AR-01, AR-02: DCCC Announces Second Round of R2B Candidates
Per today’s press release from the DCCC, Joyce Elliott and Chad Causey are both listed among the latest group of candidates who have qualified for the “Red To Blue Program.” These candidates earned a spot in the program by surpassing…