An article at The Huffington Post — HuffPo, as the kids say — discusses the building momentum against Wall Street. Using very broad strokes, the article points to the proposed financial reform bill and the activities of groups like SEIU…
Tag: Blanche Lincoln (D)
AR-Sen: A Smattering Of Stuff On Lincoln And Halter
(Plus an unavoidable mention of D.C. Morrison.) MSNBC First Read’s “First Thoughts” post has two nuggets about the AR-Sen race. The more noteworthy entry of the two is from Luke Russert’s interview with Bill Clinton. Asked to opine on the…
AR-Sen: In The Blogs
Recently added to the BHR blogroll, the awesomely named Donkeylicious raises a good point about Blanche Lincoln’s more-stringent derivative reform proposal. Namely Take a clear and strong stand against the banks, and if you go down swinging, people will at…
AR-Sen: Lincoln Doing The Cupid Shuffle?
As in, “to the left, to the left, to the left, to the left….” Based on yesterday’s about-face regarding financial reform, it appears so. According to Politico, she dropped her efforts to cooperate with Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) after he…
AR-Sen: Pee On The Fire And Call The Dogs, This Race Is Over
On the heels of yesterday’s poll showing a tight race between Bill Halter and Blanche Lincoln, Talk Business released a poll of 1,357 voters who plan to vote for a Republican in the May 18 preferential primary. 46% John Boozman…
AR-Sen: New Talk Business Poll Released
Talk Business polled 1,167 statewide voters regarding their preference in the Democratic preferential primary for U.S. Senator. The results: 38% Blanche Lincoln 31% Bill Halter 10% D.C. Morrison 20% Undecided The margin of error is +/- 3%, which means that…
AR-Sen [Follow-up]: If Not Mitchell Berry, Then Who?
Yesterday, I mentioned (and Blue Arkansas detailed more fully) an attack ad against Bill Halter that was created by a group headed by Marion Berry’s son, Mitchell. Except, then it wasn’t headed by Mitchell Berry; he was merely the lawyer…
AR-Sen: Boozman Not A Fan Of Jobs, Tax Breaks, or Infrastructure
At least that’s what his vote on today’s HIRE Act would indicate. The HIRE Act passed the House today, no thanks to Reps. Mark Kirk of Illinois, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Michael Castle of Delaware, and John Boozman of Arkansas.…
AR-Sen: Weird Gets A Little Weirder
First, there was the news that Marion Berry’s son, Mitchell Berry, was behind a group called Arkansas For Common Sense, which recently launched an ad attack Bill Halter for his position on Social Security. (Marion Berry is a vocal supporter…
AR-Sen: Lincoln Continues To Make Bizarre Campaign Decisions
So, let me get this straight… Blanche Lincoln was comfortably ahead by double digits about a month ago. Rather than run ads promoting herself and acting like Bill Halter didn’t exist, she chose to go negative, and her poll numbers…