Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln's Approval Slump Continues

[babylonsister]

I just can't seem to find any sympathy for her.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/polltracker/2009/08/arkansas-sen-lincolns-approval.html

Arkansas Sen. Lincoln's Approval Slump Continues

August 26, 2009 12:01 PM


Democrat Blanche Lincoln will have to address a serious popularity slump back home as she gears up her 2010 bid for a third Senate term in Arkansas. Lincoln held a 36 percent job approval rating, to 44 percent disapproval, in an Aug. 21-24 Public Policy Polling survey of Arkansas voters.

The same survey showed Lincoln just neck-and-neck, or even slightly trailing, when matched up against three potential Republican challengers -- even though none of those GOP contenders is well known statewide.

Lincoln trailed by 41 percent to 40 percent in a hypothetical matchup with Curtis Coleman, CEO of Safe Foods Corp., a company based in North Little Rock that provides services to food processing companies; 19 percent of respondents said they were undecided. That virtual tie came about even though 80 percent of respondents indicated they didn't know Coleman well enough to form an opinion of him.

Two other Republicans were seriously competitive with Lincoln despite low name recognition scores similar to Coleman's.

State Sen. Gilbert Baker led by Lincoln 42 percent to 40 percent with 18 percent undecided. Against Iraq war veteran Tom Cotton, Lincoln led by 40 percent to 39 percent with 21 percent undecided. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.

Additional Republicans are either actively campaigning or considering bids against Lincoln. The incumbent may also have to fend off a primary challenge from Democratic state Sen. Bob Johnson, who stated last week that he is contemplating a campaign of his own.

[kentuck]

1. Bill and Hillary were from Arkansas...

and they didn't have to pretend they were Republicans to win elections. Right?

[Cant trust em]

2. Some here would argue that they did. nt

[Barack_America]

6. .

[kirby]

4. Actually they did...

They ran as part of a 'New Democrat' movement which moved the party to the right. The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was run by Bill Clinton before he ran for stepped down to run for President. He called himself a 'New Democrat'.

[Laelth]

7. They didn't HAVE to.

They CHOSE to.

:dem:

-Laelth

[xchrom]

3. why have a pretend republican when you can have a real one, blanche?nt

[Laelth]

5. She needs to act like a real Democrat. Then her numbers will go up.

Nothing she does will please Republicans. Why even try?

"The last thing this Country needs is two Republican Parties." - Ted Kennedy

:dem:

-Laelth

[sinkingfeeling]

8. No they won't. We're in Arkansas... the state that went to McCain with the second biggest percentage

in the country. Her support of health care reform is what is bringing down her numbers and why she keeps hemming and hawing about the public option.

[Laelth]

10. I would have to see hard polling data on that.

Mainly because she hasn't, to my knowledge, come out "in support" of health care reform yet. If she had, that might prove the point you're making.

Obama's numbers are going down because he's losing liberals. He's losing liberals because he's offering only tepid support for a very weak plan. Lincoln may be losing Democratic support because she has refused to support health care reform.

:dem:

-Laelth

[sinkingfeeling]

14. You can go to her website where she has a section of QandAs for healthcare or come hear her speak.

http://www.blancheforsenate.com/issues/health-care/resources.html


Dear Xxxxx,
The air waves are filled this summer with 30-second ads about health insurance reform.

In fact, there is a lot of talk about health care just about anywhere you turn these days. That's because national groups on both sides of the issue understand that Senator Lincoln holds a pivotal position in the health insurance reform debate. Unfortunately, there is so much conflicting information it is difficult to tell fact from fiction.

That's why we put a resource page together for you where you can check the facts, ask questions and make comments. Share your stories if you'd like.

Click here to see our brand new Health Care Resource Center.
We've included Senator Lincoln's responses to several questions and comments that many of you have already submitted this year. Also, we share the latest news about her work in the Senate Finance Committee to create a bipartisan plan that doesn't add to the deficit. Finally, you can also find an accurate record of her career efforts to build on what works in our current health care system.

The conversation on this critical issue is changing by the day. That's why Senator Lincoln announced just yesterday she will be holding a series of public town hall meetings on health care in the first few days of September. You can look up the town hall schedule here.

In the meantime, we will continually update the new Health Care Resource Center and hope you will rely on it in the weeks ahead as Senator Lincoln works for a common sense solution on health insuranc

[BolivarianHero]

9. In Arkanasas? Yet right...

One of the only states where Obama did significantly worse than Kerry in spite of his better national results...It's more a "she's from the N*****'s Party" mentality, I'm afraid.

Even in some of the Southern States where Obama's overall numbers were better than Kerry's, Kerry won more of the non-European White vote (it is an insult to non-fascist people in Europe to suggest a shared heritage with these dirtbags) than Obama did.

In these people lies the driving force behind the sentiment that led some past progressives to favour a limited program of eugenics. While this policy would be both profoundly unjust and absurdly irrational, its emotional derivation is clear.

[Laelth]

11. There are liberals in Arkansas.

There are poor and middle-classed people in Arkansas. If we do something good for them, they will remember it, just like they remembered FDR.

This country does not need two Republican Parties, and I refuse to condone a Democrat acting like a Republican. I don't care where she comes from.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Cant trust em]

12. I think that's an interesting point.

We could do something that they might not like in the near-term like health care reform (I imagine just doing this and not caring about being called left-wing socialists), but totally own it and take credit for it in the long-term.

[BolivarianHero]

13. I know there are...

I've never been near ARread My Life, so I know that even before civil rights, there was a good number of decent White people in AR.

Unfortunately, if voting patterns are anything to go by, they are soundly outnumbered by bigots, extremists, and those too poorly educated to know better.

There are also atheists in Saudi Arabia, by the way.

Do what you can to win these people, but don't sell out on progressive values and basic decency to do it.