United States Senate election in Arkansas, 2008
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The Arkansas United States Senate election of 2008 will be held on November 4, 2008.
It had been thought that freshman Democrat Mark Pryor of Arkansas would be targeted in his first race as an incumbent. Pryor was the only Democrat to defeat an incumbent Republican senator in the otherwise GOP-dominated 2002 elections. He defeated freshman Republican Tim Hutchinson with 53 percent of the vote. While George W. Bush won Arkansas in both 2000 and 2004, he won it by a significantly smaller margin than most of the other Southern states.
However, on March 10, the state Republican Party announced it has no plans to field a candidate against Pryor. The only Republican to express interest in the race, health care executive Tom Formicola, decided not to run the weekend before filing began. Formicola lost the GOP primaries for the Senate in 2004 and the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006. As a result, Pryor will be one of the few freshman Senators to face no major-party opposition in a reelection bid.[1]
There had been speculation that former Governor Mike Huckabee would run against Pryor if his presidential bid were unsuccessful, but on March 8, Huckabee said he wouldn't contest the race.[2]
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[edit] Candidates
[edit] Democratic
- Mark Pryor, incumbent
[edit] Green Party
[edit] Independent candidates
- Don Hamrick
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- official campaign websites
