More good news for Republican Tom Cotton in his race for the open 4 th Congressional District seat in Arkansas.
John Brummett, the dean of Arkansas political reporters, projects Cotton the winner in the 4 th district race. “Putting my money on Tom Cotton, the war veteran and resume-rich young Republican from Dardanelle,” writes Brummett.
Meanwhile, more bad news for Democrats in Arkansas. A new poll taken for Roby Brock’s Talk Business shows President Obama will be a huge drag on Democrats running in Arkansas next year. The president’s approval rating is a mere 31 percent, and his disapproval rating in Arkansas is a stunning 63 percent.
Cotton is the one-time Arkansas farm boy who graduated with honors from Harvard and Harvard Law before turning his back on a lucrative legal career to volunteer to serve as a Ranger officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. When asked why he is running for Congress, he responds, “For the same reasons I volunteered for military service.”