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"This is Arkansas the last bastion of Southern Democrats. And . . . find me these huge gains in 2006 for Republicans. I think Huck is getting blamed for a national fiasco that came out of Bush and the Republican Congress."

You're still not getting it. It wasn't just 2006, it was virtually EVERY election after 1996 in which he continually failed with his leadership to build the state GOP. He tried to install his wife (!) as Secretary of State (whom had ZERO qualification for the office) and the voters shot that down. To the point, in 2000, 2002, 2004, & 2006 the party's overall standing withered. NO other Southern state had that happen. Hey, he wasn't a Conservative, so it's no surprise he was such a failure. He just kept rodents in their offices (hell, Beebe didn't even have to fire his appointees en masse, because they were Clinton Democrats !), did next to zilch to help the party, hiked taxes more times than Clintoon did as Governor, and kept the illegal slave labor spigot open for Tyson and that was that. He was a shockingly BAD Governor. Thanks to that and with no GOP farm team (contrast neighboring states of MS & LA that grew at the rate AR should have with increasing GOP elected officials), it will be many years before the state recovers from Huckster.