Posted on 05/19/2014 9:07:19 AM PDT by PoloSec
For five decades of Saturdays, Jerry's Barber Shop has been a center of Arkansas politics, servicing receding hairlines for governors, legislators and judges alongside the voters who elect and reject them. "I know how to make a politician tell the truth," owner Jerry Hood says, "put a razor to his neck." That joke never fails. On this Saturday morning, Hood's audience consists of two fellow barbers and four customers, including me and the crowd guffaws while I blindly scribble quotes in a notepad beneath my barber's smock. I've ordered a Number 1 buzz cut. "People are sick and tired of the path we're taking. They're sick and tired of Obama and Obamacare," Hood says. His customers are mostly progressives from the shop's affluent Heights neighborhood. "A lot of people coming in here talking about voting against every Democrat. They're pissed off at Obamacare
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bttt
I hope it is true.
What four-letter word could that be?
I’m trying to think of the best four letter word to call him.
Although interesting, it’s risky to calculate public sentiment on isolated anecdotal evidence alone.
We’ll see what the polls reveal after all the primaries have been held and it’s after Labor Day. That’s when people really start paying attention.
Punk.
Now if only Obummer was a four letter word in all 50 states, or how many states did Obummer say they were?
Let’s see, b.....d has seven letters, a.....e has seven too. hmmmm...
That works! All the others I could think of had more then four letters.
Arkansas has become a mixed bag of politicians.
When Pryor ran for reelection in 2008, Arkansas had 2 Dem Senators and 3 of 4 Dem Representatives.
In 2014, Arkansas has 1 Dem Senator. The other Senator and all 4 Representatives are Republicans.
However, Mike Huckabee was the last Republican governor who left office in January, 2007. Democrat Mike Beebe has been governor since, winning in 2006 and 2010.
Mike Ross, former Representative, is in a tight race against former Representative Asa Hutchinson for governor.
Mark Pryor is being challenged by Republican Representative Tom Cotton for the Senate seat.
Several polls show the Dems with a slight lead, but some of those polls are tainted because they over-poll select groups.
Ofay?
LOL! Amen!
One of the most rabid left wing writers interviewing Arkansas “progressives” in a lipstick on a pig piece, and he had trouble finding lipstick.
OBAMACARE is the VA Fiasco on Steroids.
“Several polls show the Dems with a slight lead, but some of those polls are tainted because they over-poll select groups”
Is this taking into consideration whether or not it will be an honest election,or is that a foregone conclusion?
Fortunately, AR has a Republican Secretary of State.
Let’s see... c.......r is 10 and b...h is 5.
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