Here’s the Daily Kos poll promised last week on Arkansas political feelings.

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln leads, but can’t crack 50 percent, against any Republican challenger (the best any Repub can do is 37 percent but the crop is currently mostly unknown). Polling was done before her elevation to Agri chair, but I doubt that matters much with rank-and-file voters.

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(A random thought: The generic 37 percent for a Republican is probably close to the mark. Note that both Sen. Gilbert Baker and Curtis Coleman hit that level. Baker is pretty prominent and powerful as legislators go. I think this poll tells you — or it should tell ambitious legislators — a lot about the statewide value of being a member of the legislature. Despite the kowtowing lawmakers enjoy under the dome and in lobby assemblies, they don’t seem to make much of a ripple elsewhere.)

A majority in Arkansas– 55 percent — support a public health insurance option. (Republicans don’t like it much, but even 1-in-5 support it, better than you see among Repubs in Congress.) COPY TO MIKE ROSS.

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A majority, but only 63 percent, think President Obama was born in the U.S.

His summmary on the jump

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