{"id":37679,"date":"2011-07-31T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/with-ross-departure-an-almost-certain-republican-pick-up-in-arkansas\/"},"modified":"2011-07-31T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T15:45:41","slug":"with-ross-departure-an-almost-certain-republican-pick-up-in-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/with-ross-departure-an-almost-certain-republican-pick-up-in-arkansas.php","title":{"rendered":"With Ross departure, an almost certain Republican pick-up in Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-k50TdjcJwXw\/TjFrGYIbvXI\/AAAAAAAAUVs\/ClnysjrZGRc\/s1600\/bethannerankin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5027c_bethannerankin.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Blue Dog Democrat Rep. Mike Ross announced his retirement from Congress two days ago.  Ross has represented southwest Arkansas (Magnolia, Hope and Texarkana) for 6 terms.  Ross was thrown into the national spotlight in 2009 as an anguishing \"conservative\" Democrat with rambunctious constituents at town halls urging him to vote No on ObamaCare.  <\/p><p>The District has been trending Republican for years.  <\/p><p>Almost certain to run for the seat is the GOP's 2010 sweetheart of a candidate Beth Ann Rankin.  She is a gospel singer from Magnolia, 1994 Miss Arkansas, and currently an AR Tea Party leader.  Though, Rankin turned in a less-than-expected showing to the popular Ross in 2010, losing by 17 points.  <\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/57_14\/Mike-Ross-Departure-Makes-Arkansas-Seat-Tough-to-Hold-207704-1.html\">Roll Call<\/a> quotes a GOP strategist in Little Rock:<\/p><blockquote><p>&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s a tossup district that leans Republican,&rdquo; said Richard Bearden, a Little Rock-based Republican strategist and lobbyist. He noted that in redistricting the 4th district lost two Democratic-leaning counties while picking up Republican turf.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Also possible GOP contenders - Rep. Matthew Sheppard and Army Reservist Tom Cotton.  <\/p><p><em>Editor's note - I had the pleasure of meeting Beth Ann at a Tea Party rally near Texarkana back in April. <\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5027c_7828681836623105417-8330736305149633451?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:Blue Dog Democrat Rep. Mike Ross announced his retirement from Congress two days ago. Ross has represented southwest Arkansas (Magnolia, Hope and Texarkana) for 6 terms. Ross was thrown into the national spotlight in 2009 as an anguishing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/with-ross-departure-an-almost-certain-republican-pick-up-in-arkansas.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}