http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/11/07/its-a-great-night-for-arkansas-republicans Comments On: 'It's a great night for Arkansas Republicans' by Leslie Newell Peacock en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss >The Natural State's now the Trifecta Entertainment of the South.
"Where Yesterday Goes To Die."

Speaking of all that, Last Shot Gunn (Mary Ann) lost big time last night.
Her candidate, Bob Lambert, TeaParty, Springdale lawyer for whom she did
numerous TV ads lost 45% to Cristi Beaumont's 55%.

Cristi is a bright new face in Washington County.

https://www.facebook.com/cristi.beaumont?fref=ts
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:52:11 -0600 Arkansas Times Dem.s didn't mention Harry Potter either.
Posted by Quid pro quo]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 07:49:25 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by LinCo_Progressive]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:57:22 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Steve Jones]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 05:57:16 -0600 Arkansas Times
"Later, plugging the religious vote, Mike Huckabee wasn't so sure. 'Chick-fil-A day was dress rehearsal for today,' he said. 'I still think Mitt Romney wins when it's all over.'"

Now that election season's over, how much longer will Huckabee remain a viable "political commentator?"

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/fox-n…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 04:38:13 -0600 Arkansas Times
In an election year when pundit after pundit saluted the obvious--that the GOP had to win the Presidency or else (and many, including Beltway Insiders, were convinced Republicans would stop at NOTHING to do so)--The Natural State embraces the Left Behinds (and not in a Rapturous way).

As NY Magazine (among many) put it:

"2012 may have been the last chance to enact an undiluted conservative agenda. The electorate is driving steadily leftward, with the oldest voters representing the GOP’s strongest constituency, and the youngest voters its weakest. Every four years, a new 18-22 year old cohort arrives that is more liberal than the one that has died off in the interim."

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/republicans-bet-everything-and-obama-won-it-all.html

Name the issue: universal health care, equitable taxation, improving public education, women's right to choose, contraception, stem-cell research, separation of church and state, same-sex equality, legalization of marijuana, on and on and on . . . Arkansas in toto, Dorothy, is against it.

There was a moment, with the Clintons, when Arkansas showed signs of becoming other than a dismissed national laughingstock. But the latest bids for attention from your Three Stooges (not to mention the long tragic travesty of WM3) have reclaimed Arkansas's Who-Cares? status in America's leading innovative centers of commerce and social advancement.

The living majority in America has moved on.

True to itself as ever, despite pockets of progressives, by turning to the GOP at just this juncture, Arkansas affirms all the qualities that have cemented its near-to-last position for 179 years.

The Natural State's now the Trifecta Entertainment of the South.

"Where Yesterday Goes To Die."
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 04:15:52 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by kajuninva]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:26:05 -0600 Arkansas Times
She hasn't been paying much attention to politics beyond getting her absentee ballot in. She heard something a week or so ago about Rmoney being up in the polls and wondered what would happen to Obamacare if Rmoney won. She was grateful that it was available to her for her operations. Without it, BlueCross would have cancelled her after the first operation and she would have been uninsurable.

Miss Madkins is very young. She needs to walk a lot of miles in other people's shoes before she makes such a pronouncement about health care.
Posted by the outlier]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:46:36 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mag]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:31:04 -0600 Arkansas Times
It's a new day out there and if the old democratic power structure in this state can't get fired up, then they need to move over and let a new generation take over.
Posted by the outlier]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:26:53 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by RYD]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:07:37 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by RYD]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:51:49 -0600 Arkansas Times