Post 3 for Jan 13 2013: Obama toxic for Arkansas Dems

[Big Money]

Arkansas Democrat Senator Mark Pryor faces a tough re-election in 2014, in part because of his ties to Obama and the national Democrat party.


If Republicans are to gain the six seats they need to take control of the Senate, they almost surely must win in Arkansas this year, which would add to their big victories in the past two elections there.


Faced with a deeply unpopular president, Mark Pryor sidesteps Obama, and asks voters to see him more as an Arkansan than a Democrat.



http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2014/01/obama-and-his-policies-prove-toxic-for-arkansas-democrats.html

 

[Demosthenes.locke]

By say this isn't he showing weakness and that he doesn't trust his own party and so why should the people of Arkansas. He has ruined any chance of the democrats winning the election.

 

[StormX]

Hagan steers clear of Obama in North Carolina


In what may be a sign to come for the midterm elections, Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina, who faces a tough re-election battle this year, stayed far away from President Barack Obama's visit to her home state on Wednesday.
And Republicans didn't let the snub go unnoticed.

Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group backed by the billionaire Koch Brothers, released a new video Wednesday, labeling Hagan and Obama as best friends because of their support for the Affordable Care Act.

The ad blasts Hagan for repeating what's been dubbed Obama's "lie of the year": the President's broken pledge that if people liked their health care insurance, they'd be able to keep it under Obamacare. "While her buddy Barack is in North Carolina, she's back in Washington, hiding out," the narrator says.

Obama traveled to North Carolina to highlight his administration's steps to bolster the manufacturing sector.

But with the President's approval rating dipping in recent months amid the bungled launch of HealthCare.gov, it's not a big surprise that a vulnerable Democrat in a Republican leaning state would want to keep her distance.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/15/hagan-steers-clear-of-obama-in-north-carolina/




Another Obamacare cheerleader who wants nothing to do with Obama.