“Arkansas” on The Daily Caller

The class of Republican candidates fighting to come to Congress for the first time are vowing aggressive measures to cut government spending and to repeal the president’s health care law. (more)

Democratic lawmakers struggling to find support from a skeptical electorate are using a Republican tactic to win votes by claiming their opponents will raise taxes if elected into office. (more)

Democratic lawmakers struggling to find support from a skeptical electorate are using a Republican tactic to win votes by claiming their opponents will raise taxes if elected into office. (more)

Former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has a warning for his own party: Listen to the Tea Party movement or face the consequences. (more)

There were probably at least two people who shouldn’t have been allowed to fire fully automatic weapons at the Knob Creek machine gun shoot. And we were standing before the menu board on the lower range, our eyes and smiles as wide as kids’ on Christmas day. (more)

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Friday that she’s open to extending tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration beyond the middle-class cuts that President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress want to maintain. (more)

The South of the future is a liberal bastion, according to speakers at a National Archives symposium Tuesday evening. (more)

BRYANT, Ark. — That Democrats are in trouble is hardly news these days, at least in most places. (more)

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Trailing on the road against one of the best quarterbacks in the nation, No. 1 Alabama escaped by doing what it does best: making big plays on defense and giving the ball to Mark Ingram. (more)

What are the absolute, no-kidding, gotta-have-’em races for Democrats if they hope to hold onto the Senate? (more)

Senate Democrats who blocked an immigration bill in 2007 say they are undecided on how to vote on the measure this week. (more)

Delaware’s surprise GOP senatorial nominee, Christine O’Donnell, known for her views on family and religion, on Friday made one of her first public appearances since defeating Mike Castle at the Voter Values Summit, hosted by the Family Research Council. (more)

The Family Research Council boasted an all-star conservative lineup Friday morning at its 2010 Value Voters Summit in Washington with big-name potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates including former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint. (more)

One sign of the strength of the 2010 Republican wave is in Arkansas, where the GOP is likely to flip the last Democratic stronghold in the South. (more)

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), one of the nation’s largest trade associations, launched a multi-state campaign Wednesday to oppose increasing energy taxes. (more)

Christine O’Donnell is not a household name. Not yet anyway. But the Tea Party Express hopes to change that with a big endorsement and financial boost Monday. “Its a matter of timing,” Tea Party Express spokesman Levi Russell told Fox News, “we’ve had our eye on this race very closely.” (more)

Support for incumbent Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln has now fallen to its lowest level yet as Republican John Boozman remains on track to shift Arkansas’ Senate seat to the GOP column. (more)

Obama White House hemorrhaging economic ‘experts’ — Senate Dems now bribing industrial farmers in order to save Blanche Lincoln
— Scottish doctor exaggerated Lockerbie bomber’s poor health — Back in Denver, teachers are probably burning Michael Bennett’s picture — Will Charlie Rangel be the only guest at Charlie Rangel’s birthday party?
– Tennessee gubernatorial candidate pledges to change the face of American politics  (more)

One New York representative said he could not make it because he had to march in a local firefighters’ parade. Another said that, as much as she wanted to go, she had to visit family out of town. Yet another just sent his regrets, saying he would be traveling that day — in Connecticut. (more)

In the 2008 general election, as in all other recent elections, a substantial minority (in some places a majority) of the military personnel who tried to vote by absentee ballot were disenfranchised through no fault of their own.  Because of late primaries, ballots access lawsuits, and other problems, the printing and mailing of unmarked absentee ballots is all too often delayed until just a few days before Election Day.  Military personnel at sea or in places like Afghanistan simply do not have sufficient time to receive their ballots, mark them, and return them on time. (more)