Arkansas GOP Rep. Dan Greenberg (an Arkansas Project contributor) will make his candidacy for the state Senate seat in District 22 official this evening with a formal announcement on the Saline County Courthouse lawn in Benton. Greenberg will face former Rep. Jeremy Hutchinson in a primary race that will be closely and intensely watched by Dan [...]

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If you’re one of the many, many Republican primary candidates in the U.S. Senate race, most of whose campaigns are under-performing financially, here’s a friendly reminder that campaign fundraising gets pretty tough around the holidays. Like, see that week for Thanksgiving on your calendar? Yeah, you can probably pretty much scratch that one off. You won’t [...]

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At long last, the off-year elections for the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia and for the open Congressional seat in New York House District 23 will be decided, meaning that soon we can all go back to not caring about these places anymore. I’m going to go ahead and get a head start by forgetting [...]

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Roby Brock at Talk Business fires up his magical mystical polling machine yet again for a slew of questions on political and public affairs matters in Arkansas. Among the top-line results: A notable degradation in Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s numbers from the last Talk Business survey in July. Lincoln’s latest numbers, per Roby, show 46 percent [...]

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J.R. Dallas of Fort Smith, former head of the Arkansas Air National Guard 188th Fighter Wing, will announce Monday that he’s running for the Arkansas House of Representatives seat representing District 63, according to the City Wire in Fort Smith. Dallas will run as a Republican, so he’ll face Arkansas Sen. Denny Altes, who’s also [...]

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Perennial Democratic candidate Drew Pritt sends along word that he, too, will join the ever-expanding universe of Arkansas people who think that Sen. Blanche Lincoln must be replaced. Full text of Pritt’s news release is at the jump. FOR IMMIEDIATE RELEASE Contact : Drew Pritt at drew@prittforarkansas.com Drew Pritt, a political activist and small business owner, has decided [...]

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Do you wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and think, “Hey, I should run for the U.S. Senate!”? If not, you are evidently among the minority of Arkansans. So go ahead and add former Arkansas Farm Bureau godfather Stanley Reed to the list of Republicans who might, just might, want to challenge [...]

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Arkansas Sen. Gilbert Baker, frontrunner in the 2010 GOP primary race to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln, announces today that he’s hired former Mike Huckabee spokeswoman Alice Stewart as his campaign mouthpiece. It’s all in a news release with a comically long headline, which I liked so much I pasted it in as the title [...]

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The Tolbert Report is rounding up some of the financial reports from various Arkansas candidates for U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, so to supplement Jason’s efforts I’ve created this handy graph of the financial performance of several of the Senate candidates. So who will survive for another quarter, and which of these walking wounded [...]

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Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln reports another strong fundraising quarter, with $1.2 million for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, and a total of $4.13 million on hand. From the Lincoln campaign: * For the 3rd quarter (July 1 – September 30, 2009), the campaign will report total receipts of $1,210,919; * Individuals accounted for more than 58 [...]

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