NBC News, CNN project Republican Tom Cotton unseats Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor in Arkansas

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

@AP: BREAKING: Tom Cotton wins election to the U.S. Senate in Arkansas. @AP race call at 8:30 p.m. EST poll close. #Election2014 #APracecall

@BreakingNews: NBC News and CNN project Republican Tom Cotton unseats Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor in Arkansas http://t.co/C9vrtX1h9Q/s/qRco

Read more: Link to source

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I don't know him--is this bad or good?

[TwilightGardener]

2. Bad. Though I don't know if he was expected to win. It was close for a while.

[Mz Pip]

3. It's bad

We just lost another one.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Thanks to you both. Damn. n/t

[Reter]

5. Well, when a Republican beats a Democrat, it's usually bad

n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. True. I didn't know which party he was. Hissyspit did edit with more info after I posted. n/t

[reflection]

8. He's "going to go to Washington to fight Obama"

If that tells you anything.

They've been playing his one commercial 10,000 times a day. Other than that I know as much about him as you do.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Well, I'm from CA, and I don't know him at all. Which is why I asked. n/t

[reflection]

11. i know...

I was trying to be sarcastic about his lack of substance, not your question. Clumsily conveyed on my part. Wouldn't dream of offending my Antelope Canyon buddy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. OK...maybe I'm being hypersensitive tonight!

We're good, you and I.

[reflection]

14. .

[Art_from_Ark]

18. Tom Cotton is Arkansas's version of Jim Inhofe

This result is bad, bad, bad!

[jtuck004]

7. Teabagger. n/t

[tclambert]

9. CNN also reports Hutchinson(R) will win the governor's race.

That's a change of party from Mike Beebe(D), who couldn't run for re-election due to term limits.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

13. This was not a surprise at all

[Darb]

15. What was it that Harry Truman said?

"Wankers who run away from their Party's sitting President gives their base no incentive to vote."

Yeah, that's it.

[chervilant]

17. For what it's worth,

Arkansas leans heavily right. Furthermore, John Bolton ran pro-Cotton political ads multiple times a day. He spent a ton of money to get Cotton in office, and it looks as though it paid off.

One of the oldest guys in our woodcarving group pontificated about knowing John McCain, and working with his father in Arizona. I asked him what had happened to McCain. He said he didn't know. I observed that he made a fundamental mistake choosing Palin as his running partner, and this man said--with no irony--"oh, I thought she was a great running mate; we need a woman in the White House." He went on to grouse about Hillary not being the one we need, because of Benghazi. I asked him to help me understand what DID happen in Benghazi, and he said--again no irony--"Oh, I don't know, really, I just know she messed that up bad."

There are a lot of people like him here in Arkansas.

[Art_from_Ark]

19. The sitting President campaigned for Blanche Lincoln 4 years ago

and she lost by nearly a 2-to-1 margin to her Republican opponent.

[wolfie001]

16. He'll buddy up next to Calgary Ted. Both are bottom-feeders. nt