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Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 20:10:47
Bush's LR visit: the media coverage
Driving home from work this afternoon, I caught a segment on National Public Radio about how the local Arkansas media covered President George W. Bush's visit to Little Rock yesterday.
The angle of the story was that there wasn't much to cover, because his event was not open to the press. The reporter speculates that may have been an indication that Republican gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson wanted to avoid a connection with Bush.
The piece includes a couple of audio clips from KTHV and KATV and some analysis from University of Arkansas professor Hoyt Purvis.
Hog trivia
LA Times offers this trivia question in its encyclopedic coverage of the UA-USC game:
Trivia time: Who served as a ball boy for the 1974 Arkansas football team?
Fourth and rising
Hotline, the blogs say, put The Huckster fourth in the GOP sweepstakes behind, in order, McCain, Romney and Guiliani. Truth is, quote us, The Huckster is better than his betters in that field.Woody buys TV
It looks like Democratic congressional candidate Woody Anderson is going to launch a campaign ad this week, and it may even air during the Razorback football game on Saturday night. Anderson is running against incumbent U.S. Rep. John Boozman in the 3rd District.
In what we hope will be a regular feature here during the campaign season, we're bringing you a preview of the ad. Check it out (Adobe Flash Player required):
Wag that dog
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military is operating on the assumption that Tehran is five to eight years away from being able to build a nuclear bomb, The Washington Times reported in its Thursday edition. The five-year window provides the Bush administration time to decide whether to launch air strikes to cripple Tehran's atomic program, the newspaper said, citing defense sources familiar with discussions inside the Pentagon.
More poll numbers -- UPDATED
Here's Survey USA on the race for lt. gov. -- Halter, 48; Holt, 39; undecided, 12.
The margins are wider in races for other constitutional officers, as well as that for governor, mentioned earlier.
Mark Raines, news director at KTHV, says the link we supplied this morning was for an earlier KTHV poll. The numbers are slightly different for the installment to be announced tonight at 10 -- 50 Halter, 41 Holt and 8 undecided.. They'll have secretary of state numbers at 5 today and attorney general at 6, both with big leads for the Dems, just as Mike Beebe enjoyed in the governor's race.
And this appears to be a correct link to the internal numbers on the polling.In answer to a reader question, the party identification breakdown is 42 D, 28 R and 26 I. From that link:
Democrats Sweep Arkansas State Offices: In a general election in Arkansas today, 8/30/06, Democrats win in contests for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for KTHV-TV Little Rock. The election is on 11/7/06. For Governor, Democrat Mike Beebe beats Republican Asa Hutchinson, 55% to 38%. Since an identical SurveyUSA KTHV-TV poll 6 weeks ago, Beebe has gained 7 points and Hutchinson is unchanged. Beebe's lead has increased from 10 to 17 points. Incumbent Republican Governor Mike Huckabee is term-limited. For Lieutenant Governor, Democrat Bill Halter beats Republican Jim Holt, 50% to 41%. 6 weeks ago, Halter led by 9; he still does. Incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Win Rockefeller, who was not running for re-election, died 7/16/06. For Secretary of State, incumbent Democrat Charlie Daniels beats Republican Jim Lagrone, 57% to 33%. 6 weeks ago, Daniels led by 23, now leads by 24. For Attorney General, Democrat Dustin McDaniel beats Republican Gunner DeLay 53% to 35%. 6 weeks ago, McDaniel led by 15, now leads by 18.
Citizens, arrest this man
Andy Mayberry, the congressional candidate, has scheduled some Labor Day weekend gimmick events in hopes a bored TV crew or two will give him some free air time. News release on jump.
The release got us to thinking about his slogan, "It's time to take Mayberry thinking to Washington."
Apart from the fact that there are a growing number of Americans who don't know what the heck he's talking about, even though the Andy Griffith show/Mayberry RFD still airs on cable, we happen to have many recollections of Mayberry thinking that his slogan evokes and what of it he might take to Washington.
Would Andy Mayberry be Gomer, madly racing around shouting "Citizen's arrest!"
Or dopey Goober?
Or befuddled Floyd the Barber?
Or rock-chunking Ernest T. Bass?
But we keep being drawn back to the image of earnest Deputy Barney Fife, entrusted with but one unchambered bullet and a propensity for bamboozlement by everyone from the town drunk to visiting bank robbers.
Gunner fires
King George, MIA -- UPDATE
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys
Baseball battle
Woo pig
Beebe on schools
There are none so brilliant ...
No one Photoshopped that toothy smirk
Party pic
Who foots the bill?
The pool report
Don't worry, W was thinking about Camus at the time
Bush's brain
Lunchtime -- UPDATE
Link demanded
The second coming
Muckraking
The prince of New Orleans
Sleazebag of the day, Part II
Chicken waste
Sleazebag of the day
Women in court
Dale Bumpers on politics
The Bush visit
Oaklawn fesses up
Bush watch
Bad timing for the jail campaign -- UPDATE
City sewers OK
Good school news
Abortion politics
Fishing for info in Memphis
Moe Ron
The Zell Miller mystery -- UPDATE II
Missing New Orleans
AIDS fight: Better late than never
Bootlegger's boy
The courthouse crowd
Bag man
Rice isn't so nice
Reforming in secret
Back in business
Surprise: Creep isn't charged
For the jail tax
Beebe leads -- again
Gunner, heal thyself
Surprise: Republicans are gay-bashing
New wrinkle
Sullivan named KATV sports director
Dawn's back (UPDATE)
At higher elevations
Broken promises
The Latino paradox
Good neighbor
Rich get richer, Part II
Slight of the day
Slacking
The gubernatorial poll
The failed presidency
Banco Wal-Mart
After the storm
What's on your mind?
Strange bedfellows
Praise for George Howard
Winds of change?
Church/state pioneer
Advantage Beebe
Escorted to jail
A$a: stuck
A conversation with Jim Holt
Open line
Technical problems
Odd couple
Dawn patrol
Daniels abides by ruling
Charter schools
Election Stupidity and Snafus
Flexible standards
They love Huck
The rich get richer
Like father
Wes Clark's campaign
Money talks
A$a!
Religion and politics
The high cost of baseball
And today's polls say
Filmmaker hit by pitch
Raid at the club
Dick Cheney, however, is not invited
He said, she said
Election travails
Morning after pill
Politicking
Wal-Mart goes Communist
Idiotic -- and evil
The judge comes to his senses
The coordinated campaign -- UPDATE
Today's poll -- a.g.
Did Gannett buy The Times?
There they go again
Huck goes green
Comments
Downsizing Rudy
Terror in the sky
Lendall makes ballot
Tit for tat
Huckabee rocks
And in Iowa
Speaking of presidential candidates
Politics in AIDS funding
The country begins to get it
Wal-Mart seeks diversity
Today's polling
Judge reverses: Paron to close UPDATE
Clubbing
Play ball
New at the zoo
Another homicide
Eroding: neighborhood support -- UPDATE
Flip-flopper and fibber
Our fighting women
Reality TV
I did good
Gay foster parents
Clueless in D.C.
He of little faith
Beebe by 21?
Melting down
Flip-flop
Meanwhile, back at the jail
The wrangling continues
The election machinery
Testing, testing
Gubernatorial gap --- UPDATE
Send in the demagogues -- UPDATE
UCA's boom
Arkansas: digital laggard
Slopping the hogs
Election issues
Campaign watch
Important stuff
GOP has lost its way
Welfare reform
The politics of terror
Fears in the skies
The impeachment manager
The money trail
More deserting rats
Prescription for arrest
Battling the bulge
A heartbeat away
Duck and cover
Change is gonna come
Electrical shock
Words of wisdom
A rave for UA prof
You'll need a nap
We are not alone
The perfect country song
Opinion: bad opinion
Naderizing Beebe
Big bang
What now?
Wal-Mart's governor
One less candidate
The Paron case
Gubernatorial debates set (UPDATE)
Lake Maumelle update -- Deltic loses
Asa! makes big media buy
Ark. liberal arts colleges score in US News (UPDATE)
Candidate Walker
Good water -- not!
Good grief
Good news
Good riddance
Good read
Good point
The third party case
But will Joe stick by you?
With friends like these
Games of 'skill'
Bush taint
Pulaski District progress report
DeLay: McDaniel supports gun safety locks (UPDATE)
Constitution? Bush don't need no stinkin' constitution
Nursing homes: Best and worst
Oh the O zone
Tracy Steele report
What a kick
It ain't easy being ...
Known by your enemies
The Wal-Mart campaign plank
Mike!
The 'paradoxical Republican'
Forbes ranks LR high on job list
Hey, it's just your money
Medical report sought
Desperately seeking retail
Re: Sen. Lieberman (R-Ct.)
Update: Easter Seal land deal
The obesity fight
Over there
Willett suggests Beebe 'gaffe'
Pryor floats estate tax plan
Just don't call me a Texan
Quote without comment
Hannity headlines Harding lecture series
Entergy requests another rate increase (UPDATE)
Deaf and Blind School acreage could sell
Wal-Mart earnings decline
Pryor's DSCC role under fire
George Allen can't help himself
Dems get tough on national security
He ain't nothing but a hound dog
Can't touch this
Name that quarterback
Huckabee defends states' rights
The sinking ship
Bush coming to LR for Asa!
Asa! disputes Beebe's new ads (UPDATE)
Al Green concert postponed
Halter says Holt would eliminate Social Security (UPDATE)
'Don't ask, don't tell' to be challenged in LR
Acxiom buying back shares
Be afraid, be very afraid . . .
Beebe: Law prohibits teaching intelligent design
Today in the governor's race (UPDATE)
Military recruitment violations increasing
Slate philanthropy conference to feature Clinton, Turner
Fear itself
Slater pondering Arkansas return
Will Lendall make the ballot?
Huckabee's low job growth rate
How low can he go?
The Villa changes hands
Beebe, Asa gliding left?
Pryor urges focus on terrorism
Pryor shifting toward Iraq withdrawal?
Out, out damp spot
Pryor to deliver national radio address
You talk about 'speed'y headache relief
Coughlin spared prison
LR teachers group issues school board endorsements
Huck yuks it up
(Royal) court stenography
Lagrone calls Daniels 'AWOL'
Shed a tear for the KKK
Carnahan punished for refusing responsibility
New FERC could impact Entergy case
Huckabee 'rocked'
DeLay's 'untouchable' proposal
Fire at Cabot junior high school
Huckabee wastes no time politicizing terror plot
Custom polling
Beebe proposes expanded homestead credit (UPDATE)
Halter to Holt: Is Asa! a socialist?
Quayle, Albright among Clinton School speakers
Barone named UAMS nursing dean
A sorry law
Local travel update
Steve Clark sets example
Pryor backs Lieberman; Lincoln won't say
Wal-Mart agrees to unions in China
Airline terrorism plot foiled
Bill Clinton coming for Beebe fundraiser
New Arkansas Times online
Helicopter crashes in NW Arkansas
325 schools miss progress benchmarks
GOP absolutely, positively against anything gay
Week-long sports celebration set for LR
LR board seat to open
Huckabee frustrated with feds
Whither the Bradley Pink, et al.
Back to bonds? (UPDATE: Yes)
Pulaski Bank purchased by IberiaBank
Them medias
Digital fingerprints
Lieberman loses
Halter supports gay foster parent ban
Which Ark. governors were best on jobs?
Curran Hall task force named
DeLay in 'last throes'
Whoops, there goes another hillside
Layover in Houston, en route to Bentonville
Beebe cites 'urgent' need for jobs
Already more LR murders this year than last
Politics, over-easy
Consistently inconsistent?
Daniels under ethics probe
Swan song for Lieberman?
New comments policy
Mike Nail to replace Paul Eells?
Angels extends Travs affiliation
Fiser named UAMS dean
Dependency = vulnerability
Berry endorsed by NRA
Beebe criticizes Homeland Security spending
Huckabee invited behind curtain
Acxiom inks deal with ValueAct Capital
Paying their fair share
Long day's journey into Arkansas
Yes there is a free lunch
Don't count those chickens
Asa: GOP good, Dems bad
Sunday commentary
Escape by canoe
Weekend open line
Props to Conway
Hillary avoids Iraq consequences
Dem sweep in November?
Gov. candidates get substantive
Pat Robertson believes!
LR indie music doc set for release
NASA joins woodpecker search
Rod Bryan in The Economist
Recommended higher ed. funding approved
Hillary to Rumsfeld: Resign (UPDATE)
Eells memorial service today
Walker sues LRSD for discrimination (UPDATE: LR mayoral candidate involved?)
NW Ark. economic picture mixed
Huckabee to S.C.: Ban gay marriage
Latinos in the South (UPDATED)
Estate tax/min. wage bill fails
All yours
Ghouls among us
UCA extends in-state tuition to immigrants' children
Play ball!
Parisian changes hands
Beebe hits Asa! on minimum wage
Asa! calls for more charter schools
Iraq approaching 'civil war'
Jim Holt's numbers
Nursing home protection racket
Alltel's being sued. Get it?
Trading tax cuts for wage hikes (UPDATE)
Jim Lagrone's attention deficit
Oh. My. Gosh.
Rebate now, pay later
Keeping up with the Times
Open line (pun intended)
Huckabee eulogizes accident victims
Huck to run in Big Apple
Post-election conference scheduled for LR
Downtown progress?
Hendrix heralded in new book
Huckabee touts tax policies
Symposium planned for Bill's 60th
DeLay/McDaniel shootout on guns
Pryor loyal to Lieberman
Score one for Darwin
Tuesday twilight
State Supreme Court overturns Paron ruling (UPDATED)
Remembering Paul Eells
Beebe introduces education initiatives
Let them pay taxes
Heat advisories issued in Arkansas
Huckabee's pardon record
Beebe & the abortion issue
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