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Arkansas, long-time Democratic fortress of the South, to raise Republican flag
2010-09-17
One sign of the strength of the 2010 Republican wave is in Arkansas, where the GOP is likely to flip the last Democratic stronghold in the South.
I'm not impressed. The South has been going generically Publican for years. I'm not in favor of counting eggs before they're hatched, however. The Dems maintain an awfully strong infrastructure of corruption.
Of the state's four House districts, the GOP is poised to take two from Democrats to form a three-to-one majority. That includes Arkansas's first district -- a district that has not voted in a Republican since reconstruction -- where Republican candidate Rick Crawford was leading by 16 points in a mid-August poll.
I'd call 16 points fairly substantial.
Though former President Bill Clinton recently returned to Arkansas to help her ailing candidacy, Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln is a dead woman walking. Polls show Republican Rep. John Boozman leading by almost 30 points on average.
That's even more substantial. Goodbye, Blanche.
The GOP is also poised to make significant gains in the state legislature, too, Arkansas sources say.
Posted by:Fred

#3  The Stevens clan that spewed forth from their putrid maw "WrongHaven" among other filth and mentored Soros is an Arkansas institution.
Posted by: Water Modem   2010-09-17 16:38  

#2  Based on Hollywood, Europe long ago concluded that the US was composed of cowboys and gangsters. But here in the States, we call them Republicans and Democrats.

The truth behind the truth is that Arkansas is the last of the unreconstructed "big city machines" that still remain. The Chicago mob, the New York mob, the Boston mob, and the left coast mobs, are all restructured remnants of the great city machines that used to rule there.

This happened because Arkansas had a very limited number of wealthy families that ran the whole State. If you were not part of that, you couldn't do business in Arkansas, unless they had a big piece of it.

Wages were kept artificially low, and unions were suppressed, to support the rice plantations, Tyson foods, and Wal-Mart. There is also a huge tax on automobiles, to restrict the poor from emigrating. All serious commercial legal matters had to go through the Rose law firm.

Back when Bill Clinton was governor, things were so blatant that Tyson published an executive memo detailing what bribes were to be paid to almost every important official in the State. The memo was leaked, and published, and nobody did anything about it. No criminal charges were brought.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-09-17 10:24  

#1  The Republicans in AR have not been so great either.
Posted by: lord garth   2010-09-17 09:18  

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