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I'm off to a Democratic meeting later this AM. We are going to get the party in Arkansas fired up. We're ready to go.

If you have time, go over to Pierce's place. He's got 25 posts in 140 words or less from people who voted and how it felt. It's a good antidote to all the end times hand wringing from the nutters.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/my-e…
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:01:01 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Perplexed]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:55:04 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Proud Republican]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:14:29 -0600 Arkansas Times
I remember watching the Dallas New York Giant game the other day and the Cowboys were down 24 to nothing and came back and lost by 4 in the last seconds. I felt much better about the team but the fact remains they lost and now Dallas has a losing record.
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:27:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
It's been around since the 70s. Compared to how fiscal conservatives and libertarianish causes have done electorally over the past three or four decades, this might be a decent year.
Posted by Gylippus]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:03:34 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:30:20 -0600 Arkansas Times
Politico will be doing a series on post-CU spending. Here's today's

"The billion-dollar bust?"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/…
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:56:19 -0600 Arkansas Times An Arkie.
Posted by spunkrat]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:09:50 -0600 Arkansas Times
The DPA spent tons of money on analytics, but I don't much evidence that it helped. Instead, The Three Stooges reports resulted in three Democratic victories. That information was more useful and timely.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:33:00 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by RBBrittain]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:20:27 -0600 Arkansas Times
I think the Koches were really FOR Issue 1 because (a) a big chunk of the money is going to high-profile GOP-backed projects in NWA and (b) it will widen US 82 & 425 from Crossett to Louisiana so their Georgia-Pacific trucks will have a four-lane road to I-20 (US 425 is already four lanes in Louisiana). So essentially the Koches got what they wanted--control of the legislature AND tax-funded improvements to benefit them. (Let's not forget Issue 1 will also widen I-30 downtown, I-630 from I-430 to University, and popular roads for drivers from Cabot, Conway & Hot Springs.)

Even if the Koches really DID oppose it, to have any real anti-Issue 1 campaign they would have had to create a "ballot question committee" with disclosure requirements they did NOT want. Maine's BQC disclosure law, similar to Arkansas', has survived a post-Citizens United challenge based on their 2009 same-sex-marriage vote; the U.S. Supreme Court recently turned down an appeal from the anti-SSM group that violated the law in 2009. (That may have been a big reason why Maine voted for SSM yesterday.)
Posted by RBBrittain]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:09:04 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:30:53 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:16:15 -0600 Arkansas Times
The Koch & Adelsons took a major beating last night. Helping to ruin Arkansas is mighty small chump change that will not salve their wounds. It must feel like finding a penny on the sidewalk to them. I laugh & laugh at them today.

I don't expect Arkansas to become the next Wisconsin...we're too fat & lazy to do that. Our dim voters aren't crazy, they're just too lazy to become informed and too churched up to think for themselves. So while the Koch brothers got a 2 dollar return on their millions invested, I think we'll be OK though it won't be fun for the next 2 years.

We can ease our troubled minds with back to back episodes of Honey Boo Boo & a few extra bags of Family Size potato chips and in 2003 (in Arkansas voter years) we'll kick the bastids out and go back to our endless quest for the 47th spot on all the bad lists.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:27:22 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by springdale_liberal]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:15:16 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:37:35 -0600 Arkansas Times