A new poll indicates that 84% of Arkansans want the Senate to debate health care reform. This comes on the eve of a cloture vote in the Senate where 60 members must vote in favor in order for the bill to proceed to the Senate floor for debate.
Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln, up for re-election in 2010, is considered to be one of the last holdouts along with Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman.
You may recall a recent editorial in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette urging Ms. Lincoln to vote against cloture. Talk about out of touch.
[...] leftie blogs are spinning this vote as hard as they can on this. I almost feel bad for my friend Blake Rutherford as well as the good folks at the Arkansas Blog for having to tow the party line on this one. Both [...]