I certainly have to admit, though he currently beats Rice by 14%, being under 50% against a candidate that nearly three-quarters of the respondents know nothing about is a bad sign for Inhofe. If more people are willing to vote for a politician's opponent than there are people who know a single thing about that opponent, that indicates that there's a not insignificant number of people who really, really want the politician gone.
I seriously hope you're not taking an internal partisan poll seriously, Gabu.