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Television star Jim Bob Duggar lost his bid for a seat in the Arkansas State Senate in a landslide defeat on Tuesday. Results released by the state show that Duggar only earned 456 votes in the election, amounting to just 15.34 percent of the 2,270 Republican votes cast on Tuesday and 202 votes cast in early voting. The election will now move into a runoff election on January 11 between Colby Fuller, who received 1,387 votes, making up 46.67 percent of the votes cast, and Steve Unger, who won won 941, or 31.6 percent.

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Jim Bob Duggar announced on Friday his candidacy for Arkansas State Senate District 7, which includes Springdale, Johnson, Goshen, and Elkins. The seat was vacated on Thursday by Republican Lance Eads, who resigned to take a lobbying role. Jim Bob Duggar, a Republican born in Springdale, previously served in the Arkansas House of Representatives for four years (1999-2002). He is best known for his family’s TLC reality television show, 19 Kids and Counting. “I’m running for State Senate because these are unprecedented times in our nation,” Jim Bob Duggar said in a social media post announcing...

Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar of the hit TLC reality television series “19 Kids and Counting” told The Daily Caller why they are supporting former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum for president. “Most definitely Rick Santorum has a proven track record for family values and definitely for life,” Mrs. Duggar told TheDC at CPAC. “We feel like he has consistently stood for life.” “He authored the bill to ban partial birth abortion, whereas Romney in Massachusetts with Romneycare, there actually is allowable in the state — still today — $50 abortions for any pregnant woman and that was under the care...

Power in Senate hinges on Arkansas vote By STEVEN THOMMA Knight Ridder NewspapersHOT SPRINGS, Ark. - - It isn't on the ballot Tuesday. It isn't mentioned in the ads or the speeches. But simmering just beneath the surface of an otherwise routine campaign is an issue that could help decide the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.It is nothing so simple as war or peace, taxes or spending. It is Arkansas Republican Sen. Tim Hutchinson's recent divorce from his first wife and marriage to a former aide. In the morality play that Arkansas politics can be, careers can hang...