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.

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In light of Arkansas parolee Maurice Clemmons’ slaying of four Washington police officers, the apparent ease with which former Gov. Mike Huckabee commuted prisoners’ sentences has drawn increased attention.

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Until now, Mike Huckabee has been a serial obfuscator, intent on blaming others and eliding his way through potential scandals involving criminals who, thanks to his intervention as governor of Arkansas, walked out of prison free.

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“I think Obamanomics — no one is actually sure yet,” Zanny Minton Beddoes, the economics editor of The Economist magazine, explained as she struggled to define President Obama’s economic policies in a recent speech to Jacksonville, Florida’s World Affairs Council.

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Apparently U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s 60th vote was all a big setup.

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Sometime this week, perhaps while gathered around the table with his family on Thanksgiving Day, Stanley Reed will decide if he’ll become a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate.

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With respect to Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who hasn’t enjoyed much — if any — good news lately, it’s time to give her some positive recognition.

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My father began pastoring Southern Baptist churches well before I was born.

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It wasn’t enough that U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., voted against the sweeping health-care legislation, which narrowly passed the House of Representatives on a 220 to 215 vote late Saturday night.

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U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., may fully understand how incredibly unpopular the Democratic plan for overhauling the nation’s health-care system is back home.

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