Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter declared in an interview that he’s a stronger general election candidate than Sen. Blanche Lincoln, pointing to his strong showing statewide in Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary in defiance of conventional wisdom that a progressive favorite would only win urban districts. By his math, over 55 percent of the Democratic primary electorate picked someone other than Lincoln. He likes those odds for their June 8 runoff.
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