Mike Ross

This article is about the politician Mike Ross. For other people, see Michael Ross .

Mike Ross

Michael Avery "Mike" Ross (born September 1, 1961 in Texarkana , Arkansas ) is an American politician ( Democratic Party ). As a member of the House of Representatives , he represented the fourth congressional constituency of the state of Arkansas between 2001 and 2013 . He ran unsuccessfully for governor of Arkansas in the 2014 election.

In the 2000 congressional election , Ross was the only Democrat outside of California to succeed in replacing a Republican incumbent. In 2004 the Republicans did not nominate a candidate against him. Ross was in the 112th Congress vice chairman of the Blue Dog Coalition , an alliance of financially and socially conservative members of the Democratic Party.

In 2012, he waived another Congressional candidacy and resigned on January 3, 2013 in preparation for campaigning for the governor of Arkansas, re-elected in 2014. After his party colleague Bill Halter dropped out of the running for the Democratic Party's nomination for candidacy in August 2013 in order to unite the party and increase its chances, Ross was given better prospects for election to governorship: University's Larry Sabato of Virginia then classified the decision as "Toss Up" (completely open), although decades of Democratic dominance in Arkansas has collapsed in recent years and appears to be replaced by Republican supremacy. On election day, November 4, 2014, however, he lost the election against former Congressman Asa Hutchinson ( Republican Party ) significantly. 41 percent of the electorate voted for Ross, while Hutchinson was 55 percent.

Web links

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• Mike Ross in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrew DeMillo: Bill Holder's Exit Creates Hope for Arkansas Democrats (AP Analysis). ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: ArkansasBusiness.com , Aug 5, 2013. 
2. ^ Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik: Ratings Changes - And Non-Changes. McConnell, Grimes and Meaning of Our Ratings. In: Sabato's Crystal Ball , University of Virginia Center for Politics, Aug. 8, 2013.
3. ↑ Micah Cohen: In Arkansas, the Lost Art of Splitting Tickets. In: FiveThirtyEight , New York Times Blog, Sep 12, 2012.
4. ↑ Arkansas Governor - Hutchinson vs. Horse. In: RealClearPolitics.com.