Kentucky's junior U.S. Senator Jim Bunning told the Republican state central committee Saturday that he will run for re-election in 2010. By then, he will have served as long in the Senate as he did in the House, (12 years) and will be 79 years old at the beginning of his third term.

Bunning won narrow victories in both of his Senate runs in 1998 and 2004, but his past criticism of Former Fed Chief Alan Greenspan and U.S. monetary policy is looking prescient in the wake of the credit collapse.

In a Survey USA poll last month, 40% of Kentuckians approved of Bunning's job performance, 44% disapproved.

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