Brummett reviews the runoff (I think I’ve fixed an earlier bad link) and finds a few kinks in the Democratic Party’s plan to retake the governor’s office with a “center right rural strategy.” Pulaski County, with a decidedly different outlook, is the real kink, as it showed in favoring Bill Halter and Paul Suskie.

If Halter survives, could his lottery idea suddenly become a a real ticket lifter?

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