Arkansas In Play?

Published August 19, 2007 in Hillary Clinton.

Possibly a side-effect of the Hillary factor.

1 C.S.Strowbridge
Aug 19th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

As I mention in the forum, it’s not just in play, it looks like a cakewalk. Also, the latest polls have me taking Michigan off the battleground list and moving it to Safe Democrat.
2 August J. Pollak
Aug 19th, 2007 at 3:53 pm

Well I’m not going to say Arkansas is a cakewalk- it’s certainly ludicrous to say Hillary could win the state by over 10 points. But she’s carrying a 65 approval and Bush has an over-50 disapproval in the state, so at a minimum this proves that even when not running, Bush is going to drag the GOP candidates down with him.
3 C.S.Strowbridge
Aug 19th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

“Bush is going to drag the GOP candidates down with him.”

This is something a lot of right-wingers don’t get ’cause I hear them say, ‘But Bush isn’t running in ‘08, so his approval ratings don’t matter.’
4 Redbeard
Aug 19th, 2007 at 9:54 pm

Well, of course, Arkansas won’t be a cakewalk, but the people who regularly voted for Bill Clinton for decades still live there. Hillary has the advantage there. The only Republican nominee who could put up the best fight there is, of course, Huckabee.

But the GOP establishment would never let a guy like him beat someone with Romney’s pedigree and money in the primaries.
5 Duros62
Aug 20th, 2007 at 11:55 am

Bush has an over-50 disapproval

dude, you lost me here. Is that a double triple backslash negative?

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