Also filing today was Jim Keet, the Republican who'll take on the insanely popular Gov. Mike Beebe. The Arkansas Times blog reports that Keet carried along a copy of Barack Obama's book The Audacity of Hope. Huh?
As for Halter, reporters had lots of questions for the Lt. Governor after he filled out his paperwork at the capitol. John Brummett writes extensively about the exchange on his blog, then concludes:
This is the most thoroughly nationalized race in Arkansas political history. This is a national war between the Democratic left and the Democratic center, and there is no other Senate Democratic centrist up for re-election this time for punishing by the left. Well, Arlen Specter, maybe. So Halter has been seduced into the race by out-of-state liberal groups wanting to punish Lincoln for opposing the public option, card check and cap and trade. So he is trying to intimate his support for those (except card check itself, which is off the table) without saying so outright for fear of galvanizing business and farm opposition in conservative Arkansas.
Meanwhile, Halter has released his first TV ad of the campaign. Is anyone else troubled by the prominent role NLR High School plays in the spot? One wonders how much money changed hands to make that happen.
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