Poll: Tom Cotton Takes Lead in Arkansas

Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor is trailing Republican challenger Rep. Tom Cotton in the Arkansas Senate race according to a poll released Monday.

Forty-eight percent of respondents support Cotton compared to 41 percent behind the incumbent Pryor, according to the poll.

The poll shows that the race has taken a turn due to Pryor’s support for Obamacare, according to Politico.

The last published numbers from this marquee match-up came in the midst of October’s government shutdown and before the national focus turned to the disastrous rollout of Obamacare, which Pryor voted for. Four polls taken that month showed the race within the margin of error.

In this latest survey, 62 percent of those polled have an unfavorable view of the health care law — 56 percent strongly so.

“Mark Pryor is synonymous with Obamacare and Obamacare is synonymous with making life worse for the American people,” said David N. Bossie, president of Citizens United. “That’s why Pryor is losing to Cotton in the Arkansas Senate race.”

I think we might keep Democrat care, at least the parts that pry open state markets. Full repeal would be a good thing, but then we’re back where we started.

What we need is a sweeping Commerce Clause attack on the hyper-regulation of the health care industry. Keep in mind you don’t need insurance, you need access. Much of that access is denied by means of restrictive zoning, permitting and licensing inter and intra-state.

If food grown for ones own consumption is “in interstate commerce” then so are the regulatory schemes of every state in the union. What we want is to get from here to the free market. You can do that with a few narrowly focused laws:

1. Medical transparency - doctors must post their prices and so must insurance companies per procedure

2. Freedom to purchase insurance nationwide.

3. Freedom to purchase medicine/medical care. Stop the FDA from restricting medical devices and pharmaceuticals. They can still publish the risks and give negative reviews, but let Underwriters Laboratory and other insurance firms decide what risk is acceptable. If you’re dying of your disease and an intervention is promising who cares if it might threaten your life, you’re dying already. Take the risk and contract to indemnify given the risk.

4. Eliminate the zoning restrictions granting a hospital a geographic monopoly. Let doctors and medical professionals set up shop wherever they want. Eliminate the restrictions on prescriptions, licensing, permitting across state lines, etc.

Why do you need a prescription for eyeglasses when a smartphone app can tell you what you need and you can order it online?

Hopefully this turns into what happened with Blanche and loses by 20 points.

Huge, considering we did not even put a sac lamb against him in 2008 (inexcusable).

Little dweeb shouldn’t have ever been a Senator, daddy’s name + Tim Hutchison sex “scandal”.

This poll was paid for by the Citizens United Political Fund, so we should take it with a grain of salt. That being said, I don’t need a poll to know that Cotton cutrently is ahead—Pryor running that “I believe in God” commercial confirmed that he already has fallen behind.

Since the 17th Anendment, no Senator who did not face major-party opposition in an election (as was the case for Pryor in 2008) ever has lost the next election; we’re going to make some history next year.

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