Discussion: Poll: Dead Heat In Arkansas Senate Race

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Something seems to be happening. Something good.

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I’d love to beleive this race is closer than it has appeared in recent weeks, but it’s still a case of an incumbent Dem trailing in an increasingly Republican state. Too bad, as Cotton is a bigger weasel than even the average Republican candidate.

At this point it’s starting to look like Grimes has a better chance of knocking off McConnell than Pryor does of keeping his seat, and she is still the underdog in her race.

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Good NEWS NOW GOTV…There is no place for the gop bag anti-woman, anti- immigration, cut social security and medicare Cotton! fraud!

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Pryor holds a 49-38 lead among women, while Cotton leads by a larger margin of 51-36 percent among men.

This is the gender gap no one is talking about. It’s easy to see why the GOP does badly among women when so many of its policies negatively affect women specifically. But why do Democrats do so badly among men?

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This is a case of the TPM dilemma. What goes up must come down. An incumbent in a conservative state with no more than 45%
of the people supporting him in the poll. NBC the great american bastion of liberty with the Roberts clan calling the shots. A no brainer. Someone is lying. Bet it’s TPM.

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I wish I could agree that the poll has it as a dead heat. I don’t see it that way. What I see from a wide range of polls is Democratic candidates fading across the board, with the Republicans poised to win a decisive number of races by perhaps small majorities. I just got back from Chicago, where it appears that the Republican Rauner has taken the lead from Quinn, and is picking up a whole lot of Democratic votes. Pushing this trend has been the Administration’s totally tone deaf response to Ebola, which may make the small left wing community feel good, but strikes most Americans as stupid. But I’ve gotten use to the political malpractice of an Administration that has gotten health insurance for 25 million Americans, but can’t convince them to come out and vote for them against the other party which pledged to take that benefit away. Maybe you fellow TPMers will be able to explain all this to me!

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Here’s a look at the Arkansas Senate race under the media monitoring microscopeZignal Labs 5 Days, 5 Races