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New Hampshire voters elevated Sen. John McCain to national prominence in the 2000 presidential race. In 2008, they kept his campaign alive after former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's win in the Iowa caucuses.
Even before she became the swing vote that forced consideration of Obamacare onto the Senate floor, two-term Arkansas senator Blanche Lambert Lincoln had a dubious distinction: "For 2010, she may be the most endangered Democratic senator in the country," says Public Policy Polling head Dean Debnam.
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.
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.
The Arkansas Democratic Party announces that it has purchased air time to thank Sen. Blanche Lincoln for her superb work on health legislation. Details on jump. This mirrors, in a fashion, outsider Republican complaints about Republican Party official support for select congressional candidates. But it may be worse. There are many Democrats — probably a majority — [...]
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.
Book lovers with an interest in politics might want to note a new offering from the University of Arkansas.
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.
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.
(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.