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Political guru Jason Tolbert, in a column entitled "The Audacity of Jim Keet," asks what kind of campaign the former state senator will wage against Governor Beebe, whom Keet calls "a friend." Tolbert asks, "The question remains: What type of campaign strategy does Keet have the audacity to run? Will he play nice in a raise against a friend and save his biggest punches for Washington? Or, will he run hard at Beebe and try to take down his high approval numbers?"<ref name=tolbert/>

Political guru Jason Tolbert, in a column entitled "The Audacity of Jim Keet," asks what kind of campaign the former state senator will wage against Governor Beebe, whom Keet calls "a friend." Tolbert asks, "The question remains: What type of campaign strategy does Keet have the audacity to run? Will he play nice in a raise against a friend and save his biggest punches for Washington? Or, will he run hard at Beebe and try to take down his high approval numbers?"<ref name=tolbert/>

Keet was dogged by questions surrounding his residency and whether, having returned to Arkansas in 2009, he met the state constitutional requirement for governor of having "been for seven years a resident" of Arkansas.<ref>Article 6, Section 5, AR State Constitution.</ref> Keet registered to vote in Florida in 2003 and, as a legal resident of Gulf Breeze, voted in Florida elections. Despite widespread Republican success nationally and in other Arkansas races, Keet was defeated by Beebe in the general election by a margin of 65 to 33 percent, with the remaining 2% going to former State Representative Jim Lendall, who ran on the Green Party line. Beebe defeated Keet in all of Arkansas' seventy-five counties, making him the first governor to do so since David Pryor's margin of 84% in his 1976 re-election over Republican [[Leon Griffith]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Max Brantley|url=http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/keets-residency/Content?oid=1211370 |title=Keet's residency &#124; Max Brantley &#124; Arkansas news, politics, opinion, restaurants, music, movies and art |publisher=Arktimes.com |date= |accessdate=July 24, 2023}}</ref>

Keet was dogged by questions surrounding his residency and whether, having returned to Arkansas in 2009, he met the state constitutional requirement for governor of having "been for seven years a resident" of Arkansas.<ref>Article 6, Section 5, AR State Constitution.</ref> Keet registered to vote in Florida in 2003 and, as a legal resident of Gulf Breeze, voted in Florida elections. Despite widespread Republican success nationally and in other Arkansas races, Keet was defeated by Beebe in the general election by a margin of 65 to 33 percent, with the remaining 2% going to former State Representative Jim Lendall, who ran on the Green Party line. Beebe defeated Keet in all of Arkansas' seventy-five counties, making him the first governor to do so since David Pryor's margin of 84% in his 1976 re-election over Republican [[Leon Griffith]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Max Brantley|url=http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/keets-residency/Content?oid=1211370 |title=Keet's residency &#124; Max Brantley &#124; Arkansas news, politics, opinion, restaurants, music, movies and art|publisher=Arktimes.com|date=June 24, 2010|accessdate=July 24, 2023}}</ref>

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