2008 United States Senate election in Arkansas
On March 10, the state Republican Party announced it has no plans to field a candidate against Pryor.The only Republican to express interest in the race, health care executive Tom Formicola, decided not to run the weekend before filing began.Formicola lost the GOP primaries for the Senate in 2004 and the United States House of Representatives in 2006.[3] Pryor's sole challenger was Green Party nominee Rebekah Kennedy, who entered the race in April 2007.[1] Kennedy's campaign, in addition to being record breaking for the Green Party, was also the strongest showing of any independent or third-party candidate running for the U.S. Senate in 2008.