Posted on 10/23/2013 11:47:20 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Senator Mark Pryor has tried to tar his likely opponent in next fall’s Senate election, Tom Cotton, as part of an intransigent group of Republican party that shut the federal government down and nearly forced the nation into default. Meanwhile, Arkansas voters disapprove of Senator Pryor more strongly than they ever did Democrat Blanche Lincoln, whom they voted out of the world’s greatest deliberative body in 2010.
Cotton has avoided taking a strong stand on the issue, but regardless, the strategy doesn’t look like it will work for Pryor anyway: 39 percent of Arkansas likely voters, according to a new poll, blame President Obama and the Democrats for the budget crisis, while just 27 percent blamed the congressional GOP (which confirms an earlier survey from a GOP firm finding the same thing). In the poll, conducted by the University of Arkansas, Pryor’s approval ratings also remain poor, with just 34 percent of voters approving and 44 percent disapproving; Senator Blanche Lincoln, who lost reelection in 2010, never dropped below 43 percent approval.
As Eliana noted below, the newest poll, from Cotton’s campaign, has him leading Pryor by four points, 45–41, and Senator Pryor just today endorsed some kind of delay of the individual mandate in President Obama’s health-care law. A senior Democrat source told Dana Bash of CNN that, in fact, every Democratic senator up for reelection in 2014 can be expected to extend the enrollment period, and Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Joe Manchin are working on legislation to that effect.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Oh, but most voters blame the Republicans. I know this is true because FOX News told me so, when I was forced to listen to it as the husband had it on in the next room.
fox... I spit when I read it!
Say goodbye to Sen Prior.
The Majority PAC has donated over $100k against Tom Cotton in just the last month. Note that they donated over $1M against Gabriel Gomez, who was defeated by Markey in the special election in Mass. They also donated over $300k to defeat McConnell
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/indexpend.php?cmte=C00484642&cycle=2014
Majority PAC
Majority PAC is a super PAC that aims to defend the Democratic majority in the Senate. The group’s founder, Susan McCue, was former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Its treasurer is Rebecca Lambe, a Democratic strategist and advisor who also worked for Reid. Film producer Steve Bing and liberal investor George Soros are some of the more prominent benefactors of Majority PAC.
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000027357
Cannot wait. The best part is, once the Democrats lose this seat, they’ll never get it back.
fox... I spit when I read it!
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I hear you. For me, more infuriating than CNN or any of the others because they took me in for so long with their “fair and balanced” baloney.
Very true... I will still watch something that I deem relevant but those times are few and far between.
Very true... I will still watch something that I deem relevant but those times are few and far between.
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Same here.
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