Arkansas Blog

Why are you suprised? I live in south Arkansas and am not surprised. It's conservative.

ARK. BLOG: What's conservative about annual legislative sessions, $300 million in water bonds, broader condemnation power for the state, etc.?

If Act 1 passes, I'm moving to a blue state. To think that my friends couldn't adopt their own grandchild should (God forbid) the worse happen is just too much.

Southern Arkansas is populist.

SaveOurStation.Org is projecting Patrick Henry Hays as the winner of the North Little Rock mayor's race with an estimated 56% of the vote, meaning there will be no run-off. We hope that he stands behind the statement he made on September 2... "I will not support closing the Park Hill fire station."

The only good thing is that the exit polls are showing that ACT 1 will FAIL! Thank the Lord. Lets just hope we can trust the exit polls! I am with you though...it is a little surprisingly close!

South Arkansas is just plain Redneck and unreconstructed DIXIECRATS.

I've lived here almost half my life but I still don't get the way Arkansas votes.

Early projections for NLR mayor's race:
McLelland 886
Laman 520
Lloyd 5,940
Hays 9,591

I've lived here for over 30 years, and don't get how so many Arkansas folks vote.

"I'll be deeply disappointed if the vigorous effort to defeat Act 1 succeeds. "

HUH? Am I going nuts, or is that just a typo?

In 1968, Arkansas voters went for George Wallace for Pres., sent JW Fulbright back to the Senate, and elected Winthrop Rockefeller governor. Talk about a strange combination.............

I've lived here all my life and cannot begin to comprehend how the collective minds work on election day.

If Arkansas passes Act one, my wife and I (married in CA in July) will be moving out of state. The DOMA is bad enough, and we will not stay in a state that thinks we're fine for our tax money, but the rest of us is shit.

It's a shame, because we're both highly paid professionals and pay singles taxes. I'm an educator and have taught thousands of your college kids over the 10 years I have lived here. I am nationally known; I have brought almost a million dollars in grant money to the state; I have brought in half a million in tourist dollars through my work.

No more. We're not staying here. I'm tired of this.

Oh my gosh,DBI and friends, this is a nightmare!!!! How could your candidate, Rebekah Kennedy, who you have been promoting for the last 2 years ever lose??????? Good luck on your trip to Canada, Lichtenstein, or wherever the hell you said you were gonna move to when Pryor won. Your influence in the state has proven to be overwhelming. We are all so shocked!!!!!

If it's any consolation, CNN exit polls show younger voters voted No on Act 1.

I've lived here 30+ years, and you can color me stumped by AR voters too. I'm just glad I live in Pulaski Co.

Watching ABC TV. Diane Sawyer. WIll be 64 years on next month. Beautiful woman. Tell me, Norma, how many face lifts would that take to keep her youthful forever?

P.S., XcowgirlX...I'm glad you live in Pulaski County too.

Leaving soon, don't let the door hit you in your arse. In other words run don't walk.

NPR just called VA for Obama! NPR!

Anyone have word on Joe White v. Dilbert Baker?

don't worry chasv--we're happy to leave you stewing in your hatred, bigotry, ignorance, and short-sightedness.

Well, I've lived here my whole life and, even in my relative youth, I don't understand some of the strange choices/combinations that come out of Arkansas election results.

I guess the good guys can't win every battle, which is unfortunate in an election where every battle is important.

Interesting how the Pryor bashers have gotten so quiet.

Uhhh...n.s.? Kennedy is gettin' some votes. Did ya think Rebekah's election was probable? It's okay...

Interesting how the Pryor bashers have gotten so quiet.

Supporting Rebekah Kennedy is somewhat like riding a roller coaster. It's a wild thing to do, you yell and scream the entire time, and when it's over (which is usually pretty quick), there's not much else to do except stand in line and wait for the next ride. Or, in the case of some of the posters on this board, retreat to the darkness of their dungeons and blog 24/7.

Me think it was probable? Ha, hell no. It was all of you folks that acted like it was possible. Don't run from it now. You were all just so vocal before and now....silence.

Could be the marijuana brownies have her followers too mellowed out for comments.

Clever...really...

I voted for Rebekkah. I am right here and I am not going anywhere.

20% of the vote (when I last checked) when you compare incumbent Lieberman Light's war chest with hers is very respectable. Future opponents of Pryor will have noted that he can be vulnerable to a well-financed and organized campaign.

Nor do I regret supporting her. Pryor will modify his position to ride with the Obama wave or because he noticed there was more opposition to his re-election than expected or both. But I'll bet he'll be more blue dog Democrat than Stealth Republican in the next three-four years.

"If Arkansas passes Act one, my wife and I (married in CA in July) will be moving out of state." ---Leaving soon

Best wishes to you wherever you go. I take it you won't be moving to California, however, where Proposition 8, if passed today, will reverse the state's current gay marriage laws.

Well Doc, all you need to do now is convince about 400,000 more of your friends to vote for Rebekah or anyone else and then it is so long Pryor. Good luck.

Yes Doc it was the Pryor war-chest that caused 80% of the votes to go his direction. I'm sure it had nothing do to with the Green Party platform, it's just easier for you and others to rationalize.

So far, Washington County is standing against the anti-gay measure.

Yes, I've been tweeting that at Max all night long. The final results from Washington County are in:

PROPOSED INITIATIVE ACT NO.1
Vote for 1
(WITH 118 OF 118 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
FOR Proposed Initiative Act No. 1 . . 31,510 48.22
AGAINST Proposed Initiative Act No . . 33,839 51.78

I'd expected Rebekah Kennedy to get closer to 25% (no, she wasn't going to win, and I never thought she would), and I really didn't expect Fayetteville to pass the "not quite decriminalization" measure:

LOWEST LAW ENFORCEMENT PRIORITY POLICY FAYETTEVILLE
Vote for 1
(WITH 41 OF 41 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
FOR Code Section No. 130.02 . . . . 16,951 65.87
AGAINST Code Section No. 130.02 . . . 8,782 34.13

Clearview and NaturalStater,

I suspect that a larger part of that 80% was due to Democrat by name and Bush supporter by vote. Nor do I expect Pryor to support or work to implement his party's platform anymore than I expect him to support or implement the Green party platform.

Nor did I vote for Kennedy for platform, but instead for the individual as compared to her opponent.

However, he won the election and is one of our senators for another six years.

It's an election and voters and votes vary.

i voted for Kennedy because Pryor is a R-sympathizing snake and I promised him I would for whatever his latest act was - voting for torture or Telcom amnesty for domestic wiretapping, or some such. I don't recall anyone here having any illusions of her actually WINNING, it was simply on principal.I recall eL or Jake or someone saying WAY back something like "maybe we could use this blog and our connections to start a grass-roots support campaign..."

ATTACK is all some trolls here are up to - mischief... Meanwhile Pray (or whatever) for the on-going safety of BHO and his family!!!
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A vote for Rebekah Kennedy meant (to me) I oppose the politics and practices of Senator Pryor and I think she would make a better U.S. Senator.

I must congratulate her for taking the role of David vs. Goliath in this race. It took more balls than 95% of the fellows on this blog possess. She worked in private practice and ran a campaign too. Meanwhile her opponent campaigned on our time and dime. Nice. Yes, they all do it.

As Jim Lendall has remarked on these pages before the Ark Green Party does not have what the Ark Republicans had 42 years ago...a billionaire individual who used his inherited wealth to finance the reconstruction of a statewide party.

With just a few notable exceptions there are few differences between Part D of the Corporate Party of Arkansas and Part R of the same party.

However, in complete fairness, I think Winthrop A. Rockefeller would be ashamed of some the antics of Ark Corporate Party, Part R.

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Once again, Arkansas lives up to its Redneck and Reactionary image just like in 1957, and 1968.

Even Bill Clinton's election in 1992 could not do in the Pearl Clutchers, Dominionists, Unreconstructed Dixiecrats, and plain dumb fks.

I thought that maybe, just FKING maybe Arkansas would stand up for liberty and decency. Instead, the dumbass voters chose a gateway drug of fascism provided by the Family Council, American "Family" Association, KVTN-VTN Television.

The fact that Arkansas' voters chose both McCain, and most importantly, that noxious Adoption Act (1), proves without a shadow of a doubt that this state deserves nothing progressive.

"In (Arkansas), The land of (Opportunity), they said, And of opportunity, In a just and a truthful way.
But where the (Governor), is never black, female or gay, and until that day,
you've got nothing to say to me, to help me believe" (Morrissey, from "America Is Not The World")

I will no longer even watch the Razorbacks, I will no longer be civil with those that oppose tolerance. I will no longer be a proud Arkie, rather I wil support Arkansas Families First efforts to take these FKers to court and overturn this piece of s**t. I may even leave Arkansas entirely.

ARKANSAS, YOU'RE JUST ANOTHER DYSFUNCTIONAL SOUTHERN STATE! YOU MADE US ALL "PROUD", ONCE AGAIN.

Ms_Haley_1965,

You've effectively summed up my feelings as well. It was a bitter-sweet night. Someone should sue these asshats. I was proud to be Arkansan, and it's going to take a LONG time for these wounds to heal.