Ark. Gov: Beebe (D) 45%, Hutchinson (R) 41% (Rasmussen)

[skipos]

August 21 , 2006

In a political season filled with bad news from the GOP, our latest Arkansas poll shows a trend moving in the other direction. State Attorney General Mike Beebe’s (D) lead continues to evaporate in his gubernatorial contest with former Congressman Asa Hutchinson (R). Beebe now leads Hutchinson 45% to 41% (see crosstabs). For most of the year, the Democrat enjoyed a double digit lead. Then, July’s survey showed Beebe on top 47% to 40%.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/State%20Polls/August%202006/Election2006ArkansasGovernor.htm

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Beebe needs to get out in the state more. His ads just started on TV.

[jsamuel]

2. several people in my office were complaining that Beebe is too conservativ

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[skipos]

3. Some people think Bush is too liberal.

You can't make everyone happy, but Beebe seems like a good Dem for a state like Ark, IMO of course.

Even if Rasmussen is biased, it is obvious Arkansas is no Massachussettes. From Ras:

Forty-six percent (46%) of Arkansas voters approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as President.

The man Beebe and Hutchinson hope to replace, Governor Mike Huckabee (R), earns a 61% approval rating.

Eighty-three percent (83%) of Arkansas voters define marriage as the union of a man an a woman only; 75% believe the Bible is literally true; 69% say election ballots should be printed in English only; and 55% define their position on abortion as pro-life.

[jsamuel]

4. Rasmussen is crazy with that 46%, Strategic V has Bush at 35% in AR

maybe that means that Beebe is also much better off than Rassmusen says

my office is in AR, so some people in AR are upset over the conservative Dems in this state (and they aren't crazy leftist liberals either)

[jsamuel]

5. Sorry, I meant SurveyUSA, not StrategicV