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Huckabee has failed to get any early traction in the presidential race, leading Republicans to push him into the Arkansas Senate race.

Arkansas is often listed among the top Republican pickup opportunities in the country, but Huckabee is the only Republican who matches up to Pryor and there are no comparable alternatives, observers say.

Although those close to Huckabee chalk up the Senate talk to overanxious bloggers and speculation, some see Huckabee-for-Senate as a real possibility and most Republicans make it clear they would welcome him home [...]

Even if Huckabee were to enter the Senate race, Republicans see the 10-year governor as an underdog. Despite his long tenure in state government’s top office, he was reelected with just 53 percent of the vote in 2002, which was less than Pryor’s 54 percent in a good year for Republicans nationally.

Huckabee is the only option Republicans have for a serious challenge to the popular freshman Democrat -- the only Democrat to pick up a Senate seat in the brutal pro-GOP 2002 mid-terms, and he did so by taking out an incumbent Republican.