Discussion for article #229404
guess Pryor should have voted yes on Adegbile.
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Waited a while to unload. Give him both barrels, the full broadside salvo, lay siege and scorch earth.
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Again I say fuck states that go red. Its to their disadvantage and if stupid has a price, Arkansans will pay the price.
You’d think the cautionary tale of Kansas would warn others away from going red.
Are you KIDDING? If not for Brownback’s Reaganomics policies…Kansas would be even worse!!!
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Tom Cotton would be almost as bad a Senator as Ted Cruz (R-Canada) has been.
He’s a rigid ideologue and has never had an original thought in his empty head.
Only in Arkansas—where the populace is largely rural, under-educated, hidebound, suspicious, and resistant to change—would such an intellectual lightweight who is also a political lightweight be able to do so well in a campaign.
He’s been helped, of course, by his own serial mendacity, and by the completely untruthful NRSC ads run on his behalf.
Pryor is no prize—but he’s a Democrat, and that used to count for something in Arkansas.
It still should.
I live in a very rural, rather poor part of Arkansas - just a few miles from the home of the previous Grand Dragon of the Clan. Its where “voting against one’s own best interests” was invented. Two groups who’ve struggled to gather enough votes to mitigate their considerable tribulations are: small farmers and the food insecure. In the traditional Farm Bill, the two have for years exchanged votes to provide help for farmers and food stamps. So, how can an area that struggles so, esp farmers and poor families w/ children; vote for a guy who voted against the Farm Bill? One - low information voters and two, they just don’t like the Black Guy.
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??? I’m a big TPM reader, but I fail to see the news value of this story. We here in Arkansas have been under a constant barrage of Cotton ads saying “Pryor voted 93 percent of the time with Obama,” and little else. So it’s news that the Democrats run “attack” ads “to save one of their most endangered incumbents”? Sounds like the story was run to back up TPM’s polling average. Or at least I can’t see any other reason.
A vote for Tom Cotton is a vote for Norman Bates.
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True they don’t like the black guy, but they were voting against their own self-interests way before the “black guy” took office. It is dyed in the wool party politics at its worst.