Polls show a two-point race for Senate in Arkansas | Food and Environment Reporting Network

A new poll says incumbent Mark Pryor, chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture, and Republican Tom Cotton are running neck-and-neck for the Senate in Arkansas. This time, Pryor is ahead, 48-46 in a poll by a company with Democratic clients, says Roll Call. The poll was conducted last week, the same time frame as a Hendix College/Talk Business poll that has Cotton ahead, 44-42, with 7 percent undecided. “Pryor and Cotton are in one of the closest races of the cycle for a seat Republicans are counting on in their quest for the Senate majority,” says Roll Call.

Polls in early July had Cotton with a lead as large as 7 points and Pryor by 6 points. Pollster’s tracking model says Cotton is ahead, 47-45.

Meanwhile, the Jackson (Miss) Clarion-Ledger said state Sen Chris McDaniel should “pony up the evidence” or give up his complaints about the run-off for the Republican nomination for the Senate in Mississippi. Incumbent Thad Cochran, a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, was declared the winner a month ago. “He continues to say he has evidence of voter fraud, but McDaniel is starting to sound more like Chicken Little yelling about the sky falling than the respected state lawmaker and GOP candidate who captured national attention when this race first began,” said the newspaper.