She (Blanche Lincoln (D-ARK) appears abandoned by voters, who have favored Mr. Boozman by double digits in nearly every poll in recent months. She has been forsaken by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which has essentially written off her race and apportioned almost no money to it, and she has been dismissed by pundits, handicappers and operatives who are focused instead on a cluster of tossup Senate races in states — like Colorado, Illinois, Nevada and West Virginia — that absolutely do not include this one.
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As with many incumbent Democrats, Mrs. Lincoln has been stung by association with the president’s agenda. She takes strenuous pains to distance herself from the White House, trumpet her centrist credentials and assert her independence from her Democratic colleagues.
Like pretty much every underdog politician in America, Mrs. Lincoln insists that she is going to win, that momentum is shifting toward her and that she hates polls.
As with many incumbent Democrats, Mrs. Lincoln has been stung by association with the president’s agenda.
She’s not stung by the association. She gambled that supporting the Obama agenda would help her politically. She was wrong.