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Primary Blanche Lincoln We did it! We got a primary challenger for Blanche Lincoln: Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter.
www.billhalter.com
But, the reason I'm running is pretty simple: Washington is no longer on the side of Arkansas families. And it’s up to us to fix it.
Primary Blanche Lincoln Help pick a billboard that can send Sen. Lincoln this message: Arkansas' future and the health of your constituents should come first, not your devotion to polluting corporate interests.
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Sen. Blanche Lincoln is joining Republicans to attack the Clean Air Act. Friends of the Earth and CREDO Action want you to vote on the best billboard design to put up in Little Rock, Arkansas to hold her accountable on climate change.
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“Phone Bomb” Bill Halter to Primary Blanche Lincoln 501-372-6446 NOW!
If we can make 100 calls today, it will send a strong message to the Bill Halter campaign that Arkansans want a strong Democratic choice against the Republicans in November.
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Lincoln has responded to the political maelstrom she faces back home not by standing tall with her party and running as a populist (think Sherrod Brown), but by transparently obstructing her own party's agenda.
Has it worked? Not in the slightest. A recent survey by the firm Public Policy Polling finds Lincoln dramatica...lly behind her likely Republican challenger John Boozman by a staggering 56%-33%.
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
Blanche Lincoln hasn't been an easy vote for Democrats this Congress. But if the last couple weeks are any indication, 2010 is going to be much harder
Primary Blanche Lincoln "Lincoln's approval rating has sunk to just 27%, with 62% of voters in the state disapproving of her. She's at a middling 51% even within her own party."
publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com
John Boozman will enter the Arkansas Senate race this weekend as the frontrunner. He leads incumbent Blanche Lincoln by an amazing 56-33 margin in our first poll of the race.Lincoln's approval rating has sunk to just 27%, with 62% of voters in the state disapproving of her. ...
Primary Blanche Lincoln New AR-Sen poll: "Her approval among people who voted for Obama is only 54%"
publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com
We are going to have Blanche Lincoln-John Boozman numbers tomorrow and they aren't pretty for Lincoln.If I had to name one reason Lincoln is in so much trouble it's that voters are no longer differentiating her from national Democrats. ...
Primary Blanche Lincoln Blanche Lincoln is joining Republicans to interfere in the President's prosecution of 9/11 terrorists.
thehill.com
A bipartisan group of senators will announce legislation tomorrow to cut off funds for terrorists' civilian trials. The bill would effectively halt the administration's plan to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 plotters in federal courts.
Primary Blanche Lincoln Bill Halter is probably the strongest possible challenger to Blanche Lincoln. Please join the "Draft Bill Halter" group (below) and help get a real Democrat elected to represent Arkansas!
Draft Bill Halter to run for US Senate from Arkansas and provide a real Democratic alternative in the 2010 Primary
Primary Blanche Lincoln
"Voting against the public option -- or helping Republicans block a vote on health care altogether -- would be career suicide for Blanche Lincoln. It would alienate large numbers of Democrats and Independents when she's already facing an extremely tough re-election"
Among Arkansas Democrats, support for the public optio...n is intense. More than 8 in ten Democrats told pollsters they supported a public option. Among independents, support was 57 percent and among all voters it was at 56.
[The] threat of a primary challenge will likely be enough to assure she'll vote on Saturday on the motion to proceed to debate the health care bill. Whether it'll pressure her to vote against filibusters all the way to the end remains to be seen.
www.huffingtonpost.com
Primary Blanche Lincoln
Washington Post: If [Blanche Lincoln] does not embrace the party line on the health issue, Lincoln could also face a Democratic primary challenger, along with a Green Party opponent in the general election.
"In some ways, there's not a good vote on this," said Sen. Mark Pryor (D), Arkansas's junior senator, who coasted ...to reelection last year. "You're going to have detractors on either side, no matter what you do. So I think in the end you have to what you think is right. And I think that's what we're all going to have to do."
"In the process, Lincoln has riled liberal groups including MoveOn.org, which is targeting her with radio ads, direct mail and rallies outside two of her Arkansas offices. Perhaps more ominously, MoveOn -- working with the liberal group Democracy for America -- has amassed $3.5 million in pledges to fund primary challenges against any Democratic senator who sides with Republicans to block an up-or-down vote on a bill with a public option.
"We think it's really important for her to see there are negative political consequences to being on the wrong side of this issue," said Ilyse Hogue, MoveOn's campaign director. "There's no arguing she's in a conservative state, but she's going to face a tough election no matter what, and she can't do it without the base. These are the activists, the people who knock on doors, and she is really running the risk of alienating them."
www.washingtonpost.com
When the Senate begins floor debate on a health-care reform package this week, the outcome is almost certain to rest on decisions made by a handful of moderate Democrats.
Primary Blanche Lincoln "There are whispers that Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter might “primary” Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln over her health care vote."
www.southernpoliticalreport.com
November 16, 2009 — Most folks don’t know that Democrats won more votes than Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election on the eve of the Civil War. But given that those popular votes were split between Stephen Douglas and John C. ...
Primary Blanche Lincoln Blanche Lincoln has received the most money from companies and trade groups with an interest in climate legislation in this campaign cycle. Seems like we can look forward to more fun from Blanche on the climate change bill...
www.nytimes.com
Oil and gas companies and electric utilities over the past two decades have poured $8 million into the campaign coffers of la...
Primary Blanche Lincoln GOP releases video attacking Blanche Lincoln for "flip-flopping" on health care reform. Help elect a real Democrat who will stand up for Arkansans and can't be attacked by the Republicans for flip-flopping, urge your friends to join this group and support a primary for Blanche Lincoln!
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
As the full focus of the health care debate shifts to the Senate, the GOP has a tough job targeting nervous moderate Democrats. The easy part is taking advantage of Democratic Party rifts. Explaining the rules of parliamentary procedure? That's...
Primary Blanche Lincoln MoveOn.org and Democracy for America have raised $3.5 MILLION in pledged donations for a primary challenge against any Democratic Senator who votes with the Republicans to filibuster and stop health care reform.
politics.theatlantic.com
The left's pressure on centrist Democrats has steadily grown since the health care debate began but MoveOn.org and Democracy for America today launched the most direct threat yet: together, they've secured ...
Primary Blanche Lincoln All three of the big election forecasters now rate Sen. Blanche Lincoln's reelection chances as just above toss-up.
politicalwire.com
The Cook Political Report changed its race rating for the Colorado and Pennsylvania U.S. Senate races from Lean Democrat to Toss Up. In addition, the race rating for the Arkansas U.S. Senate race has been changed from Likely Democrat to Lean Democrat. For comparison, the latest Rothenberg Politica...
