Arkansas Poll: Pryor 51, Cotton 40

Weekly Standard ^ | May 12, 2014 | MICHAEL WARREN

[wmap]

A new poll of registered voters in Arkansas shows Democratic sentaor Mark Pryor leading his Republican challenger, Tom Cotton, by 11 points. Pryor receives 51 percent support,

[ghost of stonewall jackson]

unbelievable that pryor is up that much...

[Vigilanteman]

Why the sudden increase in Pryor’s fortunes? Did Cotton get caught at a cockfight or something?

[G Larry]

Good Excuse for the DNC to avoid contributing to Pryor’s run.

Cotton will beat him like a drum.

These polls are nonsense.

[mosaicwolf]

This is BS. In my AR county I have never talked to anyone that will vote for Pryor.

[bassmaner]

If this is true ... then FU AR voters.

[Kahuna]

Surveyed a whopping 23% id’d (R)

[SeekAndFind]

So, I reckon Arkansas now loves Obamacare ( and the man who voted for it)?

[ZULU]

NBC & Marist = GARBAGE

[Paladin2]

Cotton seems to be keeping a fairly low national profile and hasn’t been out rockin’ Boener’s nor McConnell’s boats.

[BipolarBob]

It’s still early. Cotton is running a “clean” campaign. He needs to get a new campaign manager and hit Pryor on his record and set his own record straight. Pryor’s hitting below the belt and Cotton isn’t hitting back. But it’s still early

[Liz]

STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature healthcare plan---ultimately enacted, by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote, into the "Affordable Care Act"

QUOTING 2008 OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.” Repeated over and over ---- with the promise that every American family would be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs.

Significantly, Obamba NEVER corrected lock-stepping Democrats, all reading from the same Democrat talking points, all of them repeating the same Democrat promises---over and over again.

LOCK-STEPPING PARTY LOYALTY NOT SEEN SINCE 1930-40's ERA EUROPE Obama And The Dems marched in lockstep. The persistent Dumbocrat drumbeat ---- in obeisance to Obama ---- kept ringing reassuringly in our ears: "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."

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Mark Pryor looks for Obamacare enrollees who've paid for insurance, who are actually insured, for millenials duped into paying for other people's h/care and for the "underserved"....who had no insurance before ACA took effect.

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Betcha Harry Reid's name might evoke similar sentiments in Senate races.

PELOSI THE MAGIC VOTE-GETTER --- FOR REPUBLICANS Seems that invoking "Pelosi" was a vote-getter......for Republicans....(cackle).

National Journal reported Repub strategists had measured which messages were most effectively persuading voters to turn in their ballots.

<><> In Jolly's race, they turned to a message—delivered across a variety of digital platforms and email—that focused on urging Repubs to vote now or watch Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi move one step closer to reclaiming the speaker's gavel.<><>

[Liz]

Cotton needs to ask Pryor when Obama is coming by to campaign for him (snix).

[EQAndyBuzz]

Heard Cotton on F&F this morning. He is saying Pryor casted the deciding vote on Obamacare.

[Wallace T.]

Some of these numbers may be due to a lack of voter familiarity with Cotton. The Upper South/Border states of Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia have not shifted to the GOP to the extent that the Lower South states, Texas, and Oklahoma have. There is still a sizable body of Anglo-Southern Democrats in these states. Lackluster economic news and Obama’s ineffectual responses to Putin's challenges to U.S./NATO dominance won't help Prior. However, Cotton better not stumble on social issues with the sort of statements that doomed the GOP contenders for Senate seats in Indiana and Missouri two years ago.

[Liz]

News reports say Obama flew off to headline several fund-raisers.

So many Democrat fund-raisers----so few campaign stops (cackle). And here's why.....Obama is near his all-time low approval ratings, and was labeled 'political poison' to the party’s candidates.

Being tied to an unpopular president can be a millstone around an eager Democrat's neck. Democrats want some of the presidential pull, but Obama, himself, should get out of their way.....and stay the hell out of their districts.

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PEW/USA TODAY POLL: THE GOP MIDTERM TSUNAMI COMETH Breitbart.com ^ | May 5,2014 | Wyntn Hall / FR Posted by Biggirl

Pew Research/USA Today poll shows Obamacare and the bleak jobs picture have coalesced to put Democrats in a weaker political position than they were before the historic GOP 2010 midterm tsunami that resulted in the largest defeat for a newly elected president in a midterm since 1922. (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

[montag813]

Cotton looks like he is 17. May work against him.

[DesScorp]

“This is BS. In my AR county I have never talked to anyone that will vote for Pryor.”

“I don’t understand how Nixon could have won. No one I know voted for him”.

You guys are whistling past the graveyard. The same state that kept sending Bill Clinton to office is going to keep Pryor. Sucks, but that’s Arkansas.

[deport]

Poll details and data if anyone is interested.

http://maristpoll.marist.edu/512-arkansas-pryor-leads-for-u-s-senate-hutchinson-ahead-for-governor/

[longtermmemmory]

The GOP with priebus is stuck on stupid.