Bill Halter

My apologies to anyone tuning in who was expecting to see the 150th "Friday Talking Points" column, since it will be pre-empted for two weeks here. B...

Nominating a more conservative candidate because she or he is the more electable Democrat is sometimes necessary, but nominating more conservative Democrats who can't win anyway is pointless.

The business community and organized labor are fanning out over the country during the Memorial Day recess, attempting to roust grass-roots support fo...

This week, Congress -- moving with its usual less-than-blinding speed -- passed a Wall Street reform bill, a mere two years after the crisis hit. Wal...

Follow the latest news and discussion about the 2010 Arkansas Senate race below. Email TwitterLists2010+ARSen@gmail.com if you know someone who shou...

Follow the latest news and discussion about the 2010 Arkansas Senate race below. Email TwitterLists2010+ARSen@gmail.com if you know someone who shou...

Follow the latest news and discussion about the 2010 Arkansas Senate race below. Email TwitterLists2010+ARSen@gmail.com if you know someone who shou...

The hotly-contested Arkansas Democratic primary continues to be a contest over which candidate can best depict the other as bad for American jobs. ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The story below includes references to polling conducted by the firm Research 2000. The reliability and accuracy of Research 2000's pol...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas is giving money received from Goldman Sachs' political action committee for her re-election...

What we're doing over at Blue America is running a May Senate Primaries contest, inspired by the Barenaked Ladies song "If I Had A Million Dollars."

Elsewhere in the world, any time the working class is threatened, thousands take to the streets in loud protest, toppling governments. We have no such historical tradition.

The "eating your own children" syndrome of so-called progressives also offers Obama an opportunity to challenge the base of his party that engages in these self-destructive tactics.

Bill Halter has responded to Lincoln's aggressively negative campaign with BailoutBlanche.com.

President Barack Obama's administration was supposed to follow a basic premise: never let a crisis go to waste. That was according to one of his own ...

If Kaufman doesn't run, Democrats are almost certainly facing a crushing defeat in the race for Joe Biden's old Senate seat in Delaware and a resounding victory for Republicans.

Recapturing America is a long-term struggle, and we aren't going to always win every round. If the coalitions that came together to try to elect Halter can continue to broaden their reach, the Halter-Lincoln race will have been worth it.

With Reporting By Ryan Grim Bill Halter's loss to Blanche Lincoln in Tuesday's Democratic Senate primary in Arkansas has spurred a round of soul sear...

To the surprise of many, Blanche Lincoln won her Arkansas Senate runoff. She did so as a modern-day William Jennings Bryan, standing up for farmers and pushing a strong Wall Street reform proposal to protect taxpayers.

Before moving on to the more important issues raised by both Nate Silver's new pollster accuracy ratings and their apparent role in parting of ways be...

Arianna went on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" to respond to a White House official's statement criticizing labor for wasting its money on Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bi...

The labor community remained peeved with the White House on Wednesday even after Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gently retreated from disparaging remark...

OK, so in case anyone was wondering where the White House stands vis-a-vis its base these days, the defeat of Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter makes it...

Another primary day has come and gone and, once again, the big loser is one of your generic media narratives. On Tuesday, we braced ourselves for another terrible example of anti-incumbent rage that's said to be swelling so strong throughout the country that only the vast majority of incumbents are expected to keep their jobs in November.