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'2014 Arkansas elections'

Courtney gets her gun: Goodson claims NRA endorsement for chief justice

Courtney Goodson has announced the endorsement of the NRA in her race for Siupreme Court chief justice. The endorsement by a special interest group with intense interest in ongoing court cases raises many questions, even as it adds a proven vote-getter to Goodson's side of the ledger.
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AP examines the other race for Arkansas Supreme Court

The AP's Andrew DeMillo had a good summation yesterday of the Arkansas Supreme Court race between Shawn Womack, the Mountain Home circuit judge and former state legislator, and Little Rock attorney Clark Mason.
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Clinton, Cruz lead in new Talk Business/Hendrix College poll

Sen. Ted Cruz holds a narrow lead over Sen. Marco Rubio and Donald Trump among Republican voters and Hillary Clinton holds a broad lead over Bernie Sanders in a new Talk Business/Hendrix College poll.

Poll: Arkansas Supreme Court races close

The race for chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme is tied three weeks from the election, a new poll from Talk Business & Politics and Hendrix College finds.
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The best justice money can buy; dark money TV ads do it

Nonpartisan groups interested in money spent in judicial elections says the 2014 Supreme Court race in which dark money helped elect Justice Robin Wynne to the Arkansas Supreme Court over Tim Cullen was the first since 2000 in which outside money went into TV ads.

Will Bond announces run for state senate

Will Bond, a former chairman of the Democratic Party of Arkansas, announced this morning that he'll be running for the state senate seat to be vacated by Sen. David Johnson (D-Little Rock) at the end of his term.
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Notes from a disaster: the scene at the Democrats' election watch parties

While Dave Ramsey was partying with gleeful Republicans on election night, I slouched around the Democratic watch parties downtown in the rain, watching the mood decay from anxious to anguished over the course of the evening and asking vague questions of stricken Democrats. Why did this happen? What's next for the party? What's next for the state?

Our German correspondent quizzes Arkansas Republicans

German filmmaker Viktor Jakovleski, a friend of the Arkansas Times, stopped by Arkansas Republican midterm election celebrations and sent us along his footage. In the video, you'll find patriotic cakes, a man who doesn't believe the president graduated from college, a pirate who expects Republicans to "change the country back," one of the masterminds of the Say Yes to Asa wedding dress campaign and more!
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Poll indicates voter education could defeat Issue 1; also provides outlier for Democrats in top races

The Arkansas Citizens First Congress completed polling this weekend on Issue 1, the proposed amendment by which the legislature wants to take control of executive agency rules. The poll also found surprising strength for Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate and governor.

Bill Clinton nourishes his Arkansas roots to help Democrats in 2014

The New York Times' Jonathan Martin writes at length for the big Sunday paper about the amount of time Bill Clinton is spending in Arkansas and the attention he's giving to helping old political friends like Mike Ross, the Democratic candidate for governor, and U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor.
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