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Shortly after filing paperwork for reelection, Senator Inhofe announced a brand new TV ad, highlighting his record of accomplishment and positive leadership for Oklahoma in the Senate! The ad begins tomorrow, and will help to officially kick off the Senator’s 2008 campaign!

Republican Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma's blunt-speaking conservative senator, won a third full term Tuesday as he cruised past Democrat Andrew Rice, a state senator and former missionary. Inhofe was elected in 1994 to replace Democrat David Boren, who resigned to become a university president. Rice, 35, campaigned aggressively for the post, but it was an uphill fight from the start against Inhofe, a fixture in Oklahoma politics for five decades. The 73-year-old Inhofe spent $6 million in his re-election bid, more than twice as much as Rice, a freshman state senator from Oklahoma City. Inhofe, a former mayor of Tulsa and...

TvPoll: McCain-Palin By 41, Inhofe By 25 A new TvPoll for KWTV-Channel 9 indicates a Republican sweep of the state this year. The new poll reinforces earlier polls showing the McCain-Palin Republican ticket trouncing the Obama-Biden Democrat ticket and incumbent Senator Jim Inhofe running far ahead of Democrat Andrew Rice. In the new poll, McCain-Palin are at 68.8 percent, Obama-Biden at just 27.4 percent. In the Senate race, Inhofe is at 55.7 percent, Rice at just 30.6 percent.