Believe me, team, should you ever dare to start up a blog and then take some time away from it, boy howdy, will you ever hear about it. As a result of my hiatus these last couple of weeks, I’ve received a steady stream of complaints, insults and threats via e-mail, telephone and personal confrontations. [...]

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Photo courtesy of Arkansas Project reader Mike, who has a thing for both Boozman and impossibly leggy chicks posing in uncomfortable stances. After a week-long tease that he was considering getting into the Arkansas GOP Senate primary for a chance to challenge embattled U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, Rep. John Boozman’s getting in, someone who would [...]

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Arkansas Rep. Robbie “Robert” Wills, the supreme leader of the Arkansas House of Representatives, announced today that he’s jumping in to the race to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Vic Snyder in Congress. Wills is the second Democrat to announce for the seat—state Sen. Joyce Elliott said last week that she’s running for the Second District seat [...]

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Finally, something to smile about. Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln can’t seem to get much right these days based on her poll numbers, but her fundraising prowess tells another story. In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lincoln raised $1.3 million, leaving her with $5 million cash on hand, her campaign announced this morning. In a related story, [...]

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The David Sanders for House District 31 campaign drops a note that Sanders is hosting a fundraiser this evening at Little Rock’s Pipe and Tobacco Shop on University Avenue, across the street from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. It’s at 6 p.m., so make your way over there if you want to support [...]

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Berry: Gotta go Rumors of Arkansas Rep. Marion Berry’s possible retirement from his First District Congressional seat — fueled by a radio interview with KUAR’s Ron Breeding last week in which Berry hedged on the question of whether he was running again — are proving to have been on the mark. Berry’s retirement announcement is pending, [...]

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Rep. John Boozman: What's one more? Rep. John Boozman, the stalwart lone Republican of the Arkansas Congressional delegation, says he might just get in to the U.S. Senate primary to challenge embattled Sen. Blanche Lincoln, too. I haven’t been this excited since Stanley Reed got in the race! Oh, and another [...]

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Do you have a favorable or unfavorable impression of Blanche Lincoln? 15%  Strongly Favorable 19%  Somewhat Favorable (Favorable = 34%) 11%  Somewhat Unfavorable 46%  Strongly Unfavorable (Unfavorable = 57%) 9%    No Opinion Thinking about the job that Blanche Lincoln is doing as U.S. Senator, would you say you approve or disapprove? 15%  Strongly Approve 23%  Somewhat Approve (Approve = 38%) 7%   Slightly [...]

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Here, Arkansas: Here’s your political “holy shit” moment of the day—Democratic Rep. Vic Snyder of the Second Congressional District announces he’ll retire. Full statement at jump. Republican Tim Griffin has been making a spirited run to challenge Snyder on the GOP side, facing Scott Wallace and David Meeks in the Republican primary. Soooo…who will jump in [...]

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(Photo credit: Michael Williams/ZUMA Press) An early morning e-mail showed up promoting a February 16 visit to Arkansas by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for a fundraiser on behalf of the Republican Party of Arkansas. Palin’s visit was suggested a couple of weeks ago on The Tolbert Report, but some confusion arose because word had leaked out [...]

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