Sec. of State John Thurston rejected the Arkansas Abortion Amendment based on a paperwork error, but women’s health advocates are not going away without a fight.
Janine Parry
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Arkansas Poll: Approval ratings drop for top Republican politicians, but there’s no good news for Democrats
The usual dreary report on Arkansas political leanings.
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The UA Board adopts a nepotism rule that could disenfranchise a few faculty from governance, mostly women it so happens
A UA faculty member’s fight to have a voice in a departmental election was heard but dismissed by the Board of Trustees today.
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From Willisville to Washington: Sen. Joyce Elliott is ready to school Congress
Sen. Joyce Elliott was the second Black graduate of her newly integrated high school. If elected, she’ll be the first Black lawmaker Arkansas sends to Congress.
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Arkansas Poll: Yep, Trump will carry Arkansas
The 18th Arkansas Poll was released this morning and the sampling of Arkansas political opinion is just about as bad as I expected.
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The Guardian breaks story: Arkansas has turned Republican
The Guardian visits Arkansas, finds Confederate flag and political science professor.
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Arkansan of the Year: Asa Hutchinson
For embodying the story of the modern Republican in Arkansas — and for finally winning — Gov. Asa Hutchinson is our Arkansan of the Year for 2014.
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Hats off to the Arkansas Poll
I doubted the broad margin reported by the Arkansas Poll of the University of Arkansas in races for U.S. Senate and governor, if not the consensus that Rep. Tom Cotton and Asa Hutchinson were likely to win. I was wrong.
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Arkansas Poll director talks about big gap in Senate results
The new Arkansas Poll released yesterday showed wide gaps up and down the ballot for Republican candidates, wider than anything polled anywhere else. That raised questions, particularly among those on the losing end, about methodology. The poll director explains and defends.
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The Bless Your Heart Edition
How Mark Pryor has stuck around in the Senate race, the down-ballot feel of the race for Arkansas governor, the tone-deaf new ad campaign on behalf of Asa Hutchinson, ballot initiatives and the courts and Leslie Rutledge’s very bad week — all covered on this week’s podcast, with special guest Janine Parry, professor of political science at the University of Arkansas.