Things have change, dj, since Asa was the youngest DA in the whole country way back when?
I just find it shocking the AR GOP is so anxious to run a guy who (aside from a run for a safe House seat) has run in every decade since the ‘80s for statewide office only to lose (Senator, Attorney General, Governor). I also wonder how many folks might mistake him for his brother, who lost the Senate seat that he never should have.
Running a Republican by the name of Joe Blow would probably have a better guaranteed shot at the office. He should win, but by an uninspiring margin... but if he loses, it will demonstrate he was the wrong pick. If Mike Ross wins, it won’t be a victory for the Democrats, as they will continue to deteriorate as a state party. 6-8 years ago, Republicans downballot couldn’t win outside of the northeast Ozarks and the Little Rock suburbs. Today, they’re swiftly claiming the rural White bastions, and in a few more cycles, the only areas the GOP won’t have will be the rapidly declining Black counties in the SE/Eastern corridor along the Mississippi and lower Arkansas river and the leftist moonbat urban enclaves in L.R.
Even across the river in West TN and in the SE Missouri area and bootheel, they’ve moved heavily to the GOP at the legislative level now. There’s almost no rural White counties in TN that elect Democrats anymore at that level, and for the few seats that do, they will fall to the GOP when open (or even if they’re not). They’ll find it very difficult to build a future winning coalition made up exclusively of racist ultraleftist Blacks with poor and declining constituencies with rich, trendy, elitist ultraleftist White urbanites. The specter of Al Gore’s lunacy looms large here.