sentences:  Rice officially filed as a candidate for the United States Senate from Oklahoma on Monday, June 2, 2008.He won the Democratic primary against Jim Rogers on July 29, 2008 but was defeated in the general election on November 4, 2008 by incumbent Republican Jim Inhofe, who won reelection to a fourth term in a landslide.In 2004, Rice founded of the Progressive Alliance Foundation which worked throughout the state of Oklahoma advancing progressive, fair-minded and constitutional solutions to public policy problems.