First-Term Congressman Aims to Topple the Pryor Dynasty in Arkansas

Pajamas Media ^ | 08/21/2014 | ALAN GOFORTH

[SeekAndFind]

Arkansas has had its share of political dynasties, first and foremost the Clintons. The Pryor family may run a close second.

David Pryor was a Democratic fixture in the state, serving in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, and as governor. His son, Mark Pryor, now holds the Senate seat he vacated in 1997 and is seeking a third term.

Are Arkansans finally getting Pryor fatigue and ready for a fresh face? If so, few Senate candidates nationwide may be more attractive than Republican challenger Tom Cotton.

“Roll Call just came out with an article that rated Pryor as the second-most-vulnerable senator this year,” said Bill Murphy, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington, D.C. “He votes 90 percent of the time with Barack Obama, who is extremely unpopular in the state. Tom Cotton is running a strong race and has a great message that is resonating with Arkansans.”

Changing dynamics

Cotton, 37, may well be the right candidate in the right place at the right time. Arkansas, once a bedrock state of the solid Democratic South, has been moving steadily to the right. Republicans held just six of 135 state legislative seats in 1978, the year David Pryor first won the Senate. Only one Republican had garnered more than 40 percent in a U.S. Senate race since the early 20^th century.

The state remained heavily blue in 2002, when Mark Pryor won his first term against Republican Tim Hutchinson. He ran unopposed in 2008.

Things changed in the Natural State during the watershed election of 2010, when incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln lost her re-election bid by more than 20 points. Two years later, Republicans captured the state General Assembly.

However, Pryor, 51, benefits both from name recognition and incumbency.

[mosaicwolf]

Pryor is nothing more than a communist sympathizer. All the dems that used the moderate center label are finally being exposed. We can thank Obama, Pelosi, and Reid for that.

[TomGuy]

Additionally, 3 of the 4 House seats have gone from Dem to Pubbie since Pryor’s previous election. The 4th seat (District 3) has been Republican for a long time.

Pryor now is the only Democrat representing Arkansas in Washington.

==

The ads are getting a tad more severe. Some of the ads from the Pryor side have misinformation and half-truths. Cotton’s ads have been somewhat weak in presenting a picture of Pryor’s positions/support of the Obama administration.

Ironically, both have run scare-ads that accuse the other of trying to raise the SS retirement/Medicare age.

[PoloSec]

All Rino’s are most vulnerable, until the establishment rushes to the rescue by hook and crook.

How many times now have I been excited about a candidate who has the desire to restore a Constitutional Republic, garner huge support and by all reports is on the precipice of victory, only to be beaten by hook and crook.

That’s how communism works, soon there will be no more elections because all the money is being wasted, money that could be put to better use, to feed the poor and rescue the downtrodden.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***when incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln lost her re-election bid***

We wrote her a letter asking her to oppose OBAMACARE. She said she would vote against it.

SHE LIED.

She was then given the heave-ho out of the Senate.

PRYOR is next, unless the low info voters kick in for Obamaphones.