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Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 September 2009 09:35 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 2 September 2009 09:35
From Roll Call:
Arkansas state Sen. Gilbert Baker (R), who has been openly contemplating a Senate bid for nearly six months, announced Tuesday that he will challenge Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) in 2010.
“I believe that Arkansas’ next United States Senator should help provide checks and balances on the policies being pushed by President [Barack] Obama and the D.C. leadership,” Baker said in his announcement Tuesday afternoon.
Baker’s decision comes a week after a poll was released by a Democratic firm that showed Baker beating Lincoln in a hypothetical head-to-head race. That poll by the North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling also showed Lincoln with just a 36 percent approval rating, with 44 percent of voters disapproving of the job she’s doing.