I don’t want to make too much of this, but I hate to dampen the enthusiasm of the true-blue (or should I say yellow) Democrat who’s monitoring early voting in Fortress Benton County, so Republican that it was the only county in Arkansas carried (barely) by Janet Huckabee in her 2002 race for secretary of state. After two days of voting at the Benton County Courthouse and in Rogers, 903 Dems and 756 Repubs have voted, this in a county where the typical R-D ratio is at least 2-1.

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