JOHN BRUMMETT: Votes that don't matter
As is always the case anymore, and not that it makes a darn, Democrats got millions more votes nationally than Republicans last Tuesday.
We're a mere 18 years into a millennium that's already given us...
November 13, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Reapportionment tango
Now that Pulaski County has been neutered--rendered an alien blue peninsula in a deep red sea--Pulaskians' concerns should shift to whether full evisceration is next.
Neutering is serious, but eviscer...
November 11, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Solidifying his case
The runoff for mayor of Little Rock could be at least as interesting as the first go-round, which proved nigh unto fascinating.
Round One was complicated. Strong plurality winner Frank Scott got 37 pe...
November 8, 2018
BRUMMETT ONLINE: A tale of two voters
One political truth evident locally Tuesday night was that there are two distinct kinds of voters in Little Rock and Pulaski County.
There are those who vote early and those who vote on election day.
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November 7, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Much ado over not much
Worthy candidates seldom have labored so intensely for political powers not expressly existing.
The Little Rock mayor's race ends today, subject to a runoff if no one gets 40 percent. It closes with w...
November 6, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Meanness run amok
All signs point to resounding victory for cynical Trumpism in Arkansas on Tuesday. We appear ripe for a meanness mandate in the Natural State.
Arkansas likely will advance its alliance with the only a...
November 4, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: As the race winds down
It was supposed to be the state's showcase race. Clarke Tucker supporters insist it still is, notwithstanding obituaries written by anachronistic polling addicts.
There is the recent poll from Hendrix...
November 1, 2018
BRUMMETT ONLINE: Big time, in political terms
When the Los Angeles Dodgers’ batter swung and missed, finalizing Boston’s victory in the World Series, I dispatched a congratulatory text to a friend who, from every spring to fall, night after night...
October 31, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: The American thing to do
Words have plain meanings. But they also can carry dangerous implications.
That's especially true in a country and world increasingly imperiled by connotations, inferences and the frightened and incen...
October 30, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Kasich and compassion
Editor's note: A version of this column was first published Wednesday online-only.
A problem for Democrats is that the most compelling anti-Trump currently on the scene is a Republican.
Ohio Gov. John...
October 28, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Willing to pay the price
A flyer arrived a few days ago in mailboxes in and around Bella Vista, Pea Ridge, Little Flock and Rogers in Benton County. It referred to a nurse practitioner living there in the area as "crooked Cel...
October 25, 2018
BRUMMETT ONLINE: Kasich and compassion
A problem for Democrats is that the most compelling anti-Trump currently on the scene is a Republican.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich remains for now a Republican—if, that is, Republicans still believe in tax ...
October 24, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Fighting a widening gap
Surely a political poll has never spoken more clearly.
New numbers from Hendrix College and Talk Business and Politics in the 2nd District congressional race--updated from a survey six weeks ago--show...
October 23, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: Arrows over the horizon
Early voting begins Monday and I plan, as usual, to get it over with. The only thing the last two weeks are normally good for is louder and frantic racket.
The time is thus perfect for a firing of con...
October 21, 2018
JOHN BRUMMETT: The candidates revealed
In the beginning, there was Warwick Sabin.
The first I heard of a new kind of Little Rock mayor--self-styled in a more politically active and muscular way--came from this New York City transplant.
Fro...
October 18, 2018