Via TPM, Roll Call notes how unpopular President Obama is throughout the South. That has given Bill Clinton a chance to be useful again, since he’s a well-known big gun who can come into Southern states and help Democratic campaigns for 2010. That’s especially true in Arkansas, where Clinton is still immensely popular and Sen. […]
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.
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Organic Solutions
What would meaningful assistance for unconventional farmers look like?
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Health Education
Glasses and eye tests are just one of the ways in which the new health-reform law will help kids read.
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Declining Support for Offshore Drilling?
In an outbreak of what seems like sanity, a Fox News poll (via The Washington Independent) shows that less than half of Americans now support expanding offshore drilling now that they’ve seen what it can do. As Aaron Wiener points out, this comes at the same time that Sen. Lindsey Graham, a key vote, is […]
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Conservative Sports.
Last week, Ross Douthat argued against the use of instant replay in baseball after the now-notorious not-perfect-perfect game. Douthat contends that it would somehow erode the sanctity of baseball, and I’m thinking of it today because the World Cup can become a proxy for all kinds of weird geopolitical issues. My blogmate at PostBourgie, G.D., […]
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Helping Poor Children.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows that more than 3 million children in rural areas who benefit from the extension of the child tax credit in the stimulus package might lose it. Children in rural families are more likely to have parents with modest incomes, and under the old rules families couldn’t apply […]
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Arkansas is Not a Terrible State for Democrats.
In an otherwise thoughtful post on whether labor wasted its money in the Arkansas Senate Democratic primary, Ezra Klein tosses out something that I hear and read, unsupported, all the time. It’s conventional wisdom by now that the Arkansas seat is likely to flip to the Republicans no matter who is holding the flag for […]
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My Last Post About Arkansas for Awhile.
… 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 […]
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Lincoln’s Win in Arkansas.
A day ago, Politico’s Mike Allen told us that Arkansas Democratic officials were preparing for a huge loss for Sen. Blanche Lincoln against Arkansas’s Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. That loss was projected to be by at least five points, possibly more. Instead Lincoln won by five points, or about 10,000 votes. It’s funny how yesterday […]
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Off the Couch and Into the Kitchen, Then.
Now that we are done fat-shaming little kids, we’re apparently blaming feminism for how unhealthy America is. Via Amanda Marcotte, SarahMC has a really good takedown of male foodies like Michael Pollan who blame the obesity epidemic on women who’ve supposedly stampeded out of the kitchen and abandoned their families’ health: I wish feminists were […]