Lean FF. Not a big fan of moderate Dems but it's the best you can hope for in a red state.
Hindsight is 20/20, but I think it's an interesting debate of just how liberal you could be in AR at that time throughout her tenure and still get reelected ... AR isn't exactly a "solid red state" until 2008, IMO. While it's easy to look back and think that only "DINOs" could be elected in these now-gone Southern states, someone like Robert Byrd was nothing short of a party loyalist and clear liberal, and he suffered zero consequences for it in a state that gave Trump his second biggest victory in 2020.
True that. One of the biggest reasons for her 2010 "Blanching" was that AR Dems had a particularly decisive primary that year. Bill Halter challenged incumbent Lincoln
from the left, bested her in the primary, and then lost by only 10k votes in the runoff.
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