This year, there is no Democratic Party nominee for U.S. House in the First, Third, and Fourth Districts of Arkansas. By comparison, in 2014, Democrats had nominees in three of the four districts.
This year and also in 2014, Libertarians ran for all four seats. There were no independent candidates either year, and no nominees of any other party.
Libertarians need to hit this state hard. One-on-one contests in three districts, and they could easily pick off the moderate Republicans as well as people who usually vote Democrat.
It would be nice to see the Johnson campaign coordinate with some of these candidates. It doesn’t look like things are headed in that direction, though.
This is one of the biggest reasons, IMO, we need a third party. In our politics these days, the two major parties are so polarized by geography, that in certain places, no Republican could ever win (and sometimes don’t even try), and in other places, it’s the Democrat. A third party could effectively become the “second” party in a lot of these locales, providing a needed dose of competition.
I don’t know if it will happen, but I agree it would be good for Gary to pay a visit to Arkansas and try to help these candidates. FiveThirtyEight projects Arkansas to be one of his better states in the South (not his strongest region). So he has more of a chance there, and it would help him govern, if he is fortunate to be elected, to have a few libertarians in Congress to help him with his agenda.
Only about 20 marginal gerrymander USA Rep districts in the U.S.A. of 435 total — due to packed/cracked rigged gerrymander districts.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.