AR-Sen: Lincoln Running Neck and Neck With No-Name GOP Candidates

http://www.swingstateproject.com/diary/5472/arsen-lincoln-running-neck-and-neck-with-gop-dunce-candidates

Public Policy Polling (8/21-24, registered voters):

Blanche Lincoln (D-inc): 40
Gilbert Baker (R): 42

Blanche Lincoln (D-inc): 40
Curtis Coleman (R): 41

Blanche Lincoln (D-inc): 40
Tom Cotton (R): 39
(MoE: ±3.5%)

Ugly. Horrendously ugly. Any incumbent who's failing to crack a higher mark than 40% against three C-grade GOP opponents with single-digit name ID is pretty far from being in a comfortable position for re-election. Her approvals, too, are underwater at 36-44.

While I'm sure that the NRSC will make an effort to get a better nominee in place than gaffe-prone crackpots like businessman Curtis Coleman or Kim Hendren, this poll suggests that the GOP could make a race of it even with a less than top-tier challenger.

We can tell Lincoln that usless she votes for the public option and EFCA, she's on her own and will go down in defeat.

I'm sure we will get right on that.

The voters will choose the real one every time.

Bless your darling heart Blanche, but those that don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Sen. Lincoln needs to get on board with health care or be doomed to becoming an ex-Senator.

Or every election Ben Nelson wins?

and yet STILL polls this bad against them? Guess that means she'll move even further to the right. She's losing liberal support by doing so--Green Party picks up their votes--so sad that we can't have a real progressive who tells the truth about things and doesn't cower in fear over the lies being spread.

Lincoln voted with her Democratic colleagues 86.7% of the time this year:

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/111/senate/party-voters/

And besides on the big issues she puts on her DLC pink tutu and dances with the repiglicans.

:shrug:

This was from 2004. Glad to see she's changed her voting habits. But she still doesn't reply to letters sent to her.

not aware that she's changed her ways.

It was one of only a few states where the GOP increased its voting share from 2004, and it also seems to be a bastion of birthers. I'm not sure if it's a permanent shift, or if its a matter of the people of the state not liking having a African American POTUS. In any event, I'm not sure it's much of a loss.

by Obama, she'll wish she made a stand.

she votes YES on a public option health care bill.

Sorry Blanche, but if having a Senate majority doesn't help us get our agenda passed, then what's the point? You might have to be the example of what happens to Senators who lose the support of their party. I can't vote for you, but I can donate to you. Too bad I won't.

As Simon Cowell would say "Soray."

:shrug:

if I were in Ark, I wouldn't support her.