Have you been thinking, “gee, I wish there was a way I could hear even more opinions from Matt?” No? Well, regardless, here’s your chance: a discussion on the major races with Roby Brock and Jason Tolbert. (You can also…
Tag: Mike Beebe (D)
Arkansas Election Line: Final 2010 Ratings
The Arkansas Election Line — a collaboration of Talk Business, The Tolbert Report, and Blue Hog Report — returns with our final ratings of the 2010 state and federal elections in Arkansas. With one exception, the ratings remain unchanged from…
Arkansas Election Line: Constitutional Officers
Back in June, after the primary and run-off elections (or partisan primary and general primary, if you want be specific about such things), the Election Line rated all of the constitutional offices that featured both a Republican and a Democrat. …
(Partially) Off-Topic: Shameless Self-Promotion Redux
In which I gratuitously use Anchorman quotes to distract from the navel-gazing nature of this post… “I’m very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.” Week 2 of the NFL season, which means Week…
We're Getting The Band Back Together!
Beth Anne Rankin’s recent foray into the world of lyrics and digital synthesizers gave me an idea for a post. Namely, if all the important candidates were going to compile a double-CD release of songs that best define their campaigns,…
Think Tank Memorial End-of-Day Miscellany
[For an explanation of the title, see here.] Links we didn’t get to. They’re a bunch of foxes. In French, they would be called “les renardes,” and they would be hunted with only their cunning to protect them. Jason Tolbert…
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…
AR-Gov: Keet's 2008 Florida Ballot Legit
Since last week’s statement that he moved back to Arkansas “in July or August 2008,” there has been some rumbling that, assuming he is telling the truth, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Keet violated Florida law by casting an absentee ballot…
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…
AR-Sen, AR-Gov: Boozman, Beebe lead
Talk Business released a new poll on the AR-Sen and AR-Gov races yesterday. The Senate polling was about what I expected, but the Gubernatorial race was kind of surprising. In a poll conducted on Saturday, July 17 among 793 likely…