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Former Republican presidential nominee John McCain and two GOP lawmakers are holding a discussion on health care in northwest Arkansas this weekend. The Republican lawmakers are holding the event as the state GOP has targeted Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln's, (a Helena native,) seat as their top prize on next year's ballot.
Rasmussen and the Daily Kos released new numbers for the U.S. Senate race; the Republican candidates were straw-polled in Hot Springs; and there was a big health-care vote in Washington. So, to provide contextual analysis of those making news along Arkansas’ U.S. Senate front, let’s see who is sinking, swimming or treading water.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Lynn Giese calls Sarah Palin the best thing that’s happened to the U.S. in a long time, and the 57-year-old housewife says she’d work tirelessly for the former Alaska governor were she to run for president in 2012.
Gilbert Baker won a straw poll among Arkansas Republicans on Saturday in the U.S. Senate race, securing a largely ceremonial win in a crowded GOP field that could become more crowded.
Book lovers with an interest in politics might want to note a new offering from the University of Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK — Sen. Blanche Lincoln on Thursday joined fellow Democrats in defeating a proposed amendment that would have removed Medicare cuts from the Senate health-care bill, despite a robocall campaign targeting Arkansas voters that featured a recorded message from the measure’s author, Sen. John McCain.
Officials in Washington state and Arkansas are trading charges over who was responsible for the release of Maurice Clemmons, the man who killed four Seattle-area police officers while out on bail last weekend before being fatally shot by another officer.
(AP:LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) After casting a crucial vote on the health debate, U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln didn't return to the break she may have wanted when she came home to Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK — Sen. Blanche Lincoln today joined fellow Democrats in defeating a proposed amendment that would have removed Medicare cuts from the Senate health care bill, despite a robocall campaign targeting Arkansas voters that featured a recorded message from the measure’s author, Sen. John McCain.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Lynn Giese calls Sarah Palin the best thing that's happened to the U.S. in a long time, and the 57-year-old housewife says she'd work tirelessly for the former Alaska governor were she to run for president in 2012. "I'd do anything, go anywhere," said Giese, of Bokoshe, Okla., while waiting in line at a Sam's Club in Fayetteville where Palin signed copies of "Going ...
The Arkansas Ethics Commission, which serves as the compliance and enforcement agency with respect to the campaign finance and disclosure laws of the state of Arkansas, will be conducting a series of training sessions for candidates and others subject to those laws.