# Blanche Lincoln won in Arkansas **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 9, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512 "2010-06-09T05:28:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/21 "2010-06-09T17:00:39Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Then what? The last time bored rich people _didn’t_ run a government was during the Reign of Terror. Running governments is what bored rich people _do_. God forbid the peasants grab the wheel of government. Then you get things like Prop. 13 and the rest of the lunacy that is California politics. Rich != politically competant. Being a CEO doesn’t make you capable of governing, and in fact is probably a liability to the constituency. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/22 "2010-06-09T17:52:19Z")
But what if you’re a failed CEO like Fiorina? Mightn’t that mean she’d be a fine public servant? ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/23 "2010-06-09T18:02:10Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > So let’s bring back the Reign of Terror. It sounds like a better way to spend the summer than some stupid camp in Arkansas! While anarchy may sound like a fun way to spend the summer, eventually you’re going to need a camp counselor to stop the mob from stealling the conch and killing Piggy. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/24 "2010-06-09T18:11:41Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > [But is that true?](http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/06/the-public-and-taxing-the-rich.php) > By 60-38 overall; at the link, you can see breakdowns by different groups. And there was 72% support for raising taxes on those earning over $1,000,000 annually, including a majority of self-identified Republicans. Less than 1% of households earn more than 250K and yet 38% think that we are taxing them enough. Less any 0.1% earn more than a million (and would guess tha less than 1% will ever have even one year at that income level) and yet there is a signifciant minority that think millionaires pay enough. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/25 "2010-06-09T18:23:29Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > But what if you’re a failed CEO like Fiorina? Mightn’t that mean she’d be a fine public servant? Yes, as long as someone has failed at pretty much everything they’ve ever tried, and been bailed out by friends/relatives. Then you’re golden, apparently. I personally think that if someone has “CEO” on their resume, they should be completely barred from running for any elected position. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/26 "2010-06-09T18:33:12Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > But what if you’re a failed CEO like Fiorina? Mightn’t that mean she’d be a fine public servant? She oversaw the offshoring of thousands of jobs. I can’t wait to see her answer when she has to explain it away. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/27 "2010-06-09T19:09:09Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > She does, but she only accepts the top 1% of the population. What does the top 1% of Arkansas’s population equal in _real_ people? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/28 "2010-06-09T19:47:52Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > What does the top 1% of Arkansas’s population equal in _real_ people? About 1%, I should imagine. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/29 "2010-06-09T20:21:59Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > What does the top 1% of Arkansas’s population equal in _real_ people? Only 3. The others are all supercomputers who can pass a Turing Test. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/30 "2010-06-09T20:22:50Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I have no idea who Blanche Lincoln is… Aside from her recent failure to win 50% of the vote and much more recent win in the runoff, she’s been in the news most for sponsoring a very harsh amendement to the Wall street reform bill. If included in the bill after it comes out of conference, banks will be barred from trading almost all types of financial derivatives, costing them billions in revenue. This is probably not **lurking guest’s** preferred example of how Lincoln caters to the richest 1%. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/31 "2010-06-09T21:02:25Z")
She’s already begging me for money again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_drama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@auntie\_drama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_drama)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/32 "2010-06-10T02:09:13Z")
She won, but I saw on the news that she’s being sued by some town or county or whatever they have in that state because of voting irregularities. So maybe she didn’t really win. Sound familiar? Just how close to Florida IS Arkansas?? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/33 "2010-06-10T02:15:30Z")
> [@auntie\_drama](#): > > Just how close to Florida IS Arkansas?? Mississippi and a tiny piece of Alabama are between us. That county didn’t plan to open enough polling places. They must give a thirty day notice, and when they figured out they didn’t have enough it was less than thirty days to the run off. The guy at fault resigned. I sill hate her guts for chickening out and voting to continue funding the war in Iraq, but Halter would never state his position on an issue, he just bitched about Lincoln. Got him pretty far, though. 🙂 I bit the bullet, held my nose, mixed my metaphors, and voted for her. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/34 "2010-06-10T03:31:13Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > So let’s bring back the Reign of Terror. It sounds like a better way to spend the summer than some stupid camp in Arkansas! Could we just maybe try it out for a week or two? I am not entirely convinced it’s a good idea, but I’d like to see it in action for a bit, and I’m still optimistic enough to think that if we did it this year maybe we wouldn’t be so tempted next year. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/35 "2010-06-10T04:18:25Z")
We’ll call it the Drizzle of Terror. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/36 "2010-06-10T04:28:48Z")
> [@lurking\_guest](#): > > Why do people keep voting AGAINST their own self interests? They don’t. It’s just that “their own interest” encompasses much more than what will get them the most of someone else’s tax money. Believe it or not, there are people in this country who feel that human beings are happier and better served by free enterprise and individual responsibility and the freedom to work and earn and live as they see fit and are capable. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/37 "2010-06-10T04:56:41Z")
There are some straight lines that are so great, no joke is possible. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/38 "2010-06-10T05:07:58Z")
One is left to wonder then what makes them so great. 😃 Faux-intellectual nincompoop! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/39 "2010-06-10T05:30:29Z")
Well, its just when I read it I heard the voice of that beauty pageant contestant blithering about America teaching geography to South African kids… ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512/40 "2010-06-10T05:54:06Z")
Well, I suppose some people get as close to beauty pageant contestants as they can even if it only amounts to hearing their voices. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanche-lincoln-won-in-arkansas/542512.md?page=3)