by
Monica Potts
… I swear.
Joyce Elliott, who I wrote about last month, won the Democratic nomination to replace Vic Snyder in Arkansas’s 2nd Congressional District yesterday. Elliott, if she wins, would be the first African-American to represent the state nationally.
She faces a pretty strong Republican challenger, Tim Griffin, but if it’s close enough, it turns out that state law allows tied races to be decided by dumb luck.
— Monica Potts
Monica Potts is a former senior writer at The American Prospect. She is working on a book about low-income women in her rural Arkansas hometown. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Vogue.com, The Daily Beast, The Trace, and Democracy. More by Monica Potts
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