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To: JohnM who wrote (253042)	6/17/2014 10:39:52 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541471

From Mike Allen on the Arkansas senate race. ------------------------------------------- --Manu Raju visits Rep. Tom Cotton (R), running for Senate in Arkansas: "The 37-year-old freshman congressman is the prized GOP Senate recruit of the election year - boasting a résumé with a pair of Harvard degrees and stints fighting in two wars - but on the stump, he's been parodied for exuding all the emotion of a drill sergeant. ... He's hosted a country music concert with Jo Dee Messina, invited a POLITICO reporter on a 5-mile run through the onetime oil boom town of El Dorado, given TV news crews tours of his family's cattle farm and blanketed the airwaves with ads highlighting his softer side. ... "For much of the year, Cotton's opponent, Sen. Mark Pryor, has been seen in many quarters as a dead man walking ... But lately polls suggest the race is more like a tossup. ... Pryor and his popular father are both natural, back slapping pols ... The lean 6-foot-5 Cotton is quick-witted and polite and has an obvious command of complex policy issues. ... Sometimes he'll stop to chitchat for longer than a few moments, but often he doesn't, moving methodically through crowds like a businessman on a mission. ... "The 51-year-old Pryor, who won his first term when he was 39, is trying to sell himself as a pragmatic-minded senator in the mold of the centrist Democrats like Clinton who long ruled the state. Pryor is benefiting from lingering goodwill from his father, David, a former three-term senator and ex-governor, and even his late grandfather, Edgar, a county sheriff in Southern Arkansas. ... Already some $13 million has been spent across the airwaves from both sides ... 'It feels like October when you turn on the TV,' the senator said." goo.gl