Posted on 09/10/2014 12:54:45 PM PDT by cotton1706
There has always been something slightly peculiar about the Republican Party’s designation as the favorite to win the Senate this November. Among the competitive races, it hasn’t had a clear lead in the six states where it needs to win, and it has enjoyed a significant advantage in only three Democratic-held states: in South Dakota, Montana and West Virginia.
The Republicans’ advantage has been more about the large number of opportunities across a range of red states, rather than any actual breakthroughs there in which Republicans have taken a big lead.
Arkansas could be the first state where the G.O.P. turns a big opportunity into a big lead in the polls.
For much of the summer, an onslaught of partisan polls contaminated the polling averages in Arkansas, making it hard to discern whether Mark Pryor, the Democratic incumbent, was trailing or leading his Republican challenger, Tom Cotton. There were very few nonpartisan polls, and they often disagreed. Two traditional live-interview surveys from NBC/Marist and New York Times/Kaiser Family Foundation gave Mr. Pryor a large lead among registered voters, while other polls showed Mr. Cotton in a much closer race. Photo
Polls suggest that Tom Cotton, the Republican Senate candidate in Arkansas, has pulled into the lead in his race to unseat Mark Pryor. Credit William Widmer for The New York Times
Over the last month, however, a new wave of polls makes it fairly clear that Mr. Cotton, the Republican, now has an advantage. Since July, there have been eight surveys that weren’t sponsored by some element of the Democratic campaign apparatus; all but one show Mr. Cotton with a lead.
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Two liberals it seems like, the same thing we will see in many other races across the country.
That I why I am not a member of a party
That is why I always write in my own name for every election.
But I never win, darn it!
Surely Cotton must’ve said or done something that doesn’t comport to firewall, 100%, purist ideology. Just in case, we’d better try to knock him down a peg.
Keep trying, maybe some day you will win.
The voting system is now so corrupt I doubt the Republicans will take the Senate.
I don’t think he votes with Democrats 100% of the time, you might lose interest
Maybe if you got your moniker down to something less than seventeen syllables.......
lol
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