In the Second Congressional District of Arkansas, former US attorney Tim Griffin appears poised to take an open House seat that was most recently held by the Democrats.
Mr. Griffin is not a pure product of tea party activism – he has been designated a “Young Gun” by the Republican Party in D.C., and thus received establishment backing. But he’s also won the backing of local tea party groups in a series of straw polls due to his generally conservative beliefs.
The district he is contesting is politically odd, in that it has had elected Democrats to Congress since 1990, but went GOP in presidential elections over the last three cycles. This should be the year its House representative flips to the Republican side.
