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NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
Sun Oct 19, 2014, 02:46 AM Oct 2014

Couple of weeks old, but still...Oklahoma governor race

EXCLUSIVE: Poll Shows Tighter Race For Next Oklahoma Governor

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahomans go to the polls November 4th and numbers released Thursday evening in our exclusive News On 6/News 9 statewide poll reveal the race is tightening, but Governor Mary Fallin still leads by double digits.

Of 400 registered voters likely to cast a ballot, Fallin is out front with 50 percent, unchanged from our poll last month. Her Democrat challenger Joe Dorman trails with 36 percent.

While it's a four percent improvement for Dorman since our last survey, the Republican incumbent still has a 14 percent lead.

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With just a month to go, a surprising 44 percent have no opinion. That includes one-in-three Democrats who don't know enough about their party's candidate to form an opinion.

http://www.newson6.com/story/26692692/exclusive-poll-shows-tight-race-for-next-oklahoma-governor

I really wish the party would have put more effort into this race. We have no chance in either Senate election (special election because Coburn is retiring in addition to Inhofe's race), but Fallin is really NOT that popular.

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Couple of weeks old, but still...Oklahoma governor race (Original Post) NaturalHigh Oct 2014 OP
Fallin HAS to go! Behind the Aegis Oct 2014 #1
I think that's the only hope. NaturalHigh Oct 2014 #2

Behind the Aegis

(53,931 posts)
1. Fallin HAS to go!
Sun Oct 19, 2014, 03:12 AM
Oct 2014

She is a miserable POS. The fact that some don't vote in mid-terms may actually work in our favor here because there have been a number of democrats willing to vote. This is a red state, a SAFE red state, so while the overall trend is for democrats to slack off, that isn't necessarily so in this state.

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
2. I think that's the only hope.
Sun Oct 19, 2014, 03:15 AM
Oct 2014

Don't get me wrong; I think Dorman is a long shot at best, but the right combination of turnout on one side and apathy on the other could swing it.

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