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The Red-State Revolt Spreads to Oklahoma; Shades of things to come?
Topic Started: Dec 2 2017, 07:15 PM (73 Views)
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Republicans have a vise grip on power in Oklahoma, and they are in no imminent danger of losing it.

In a state that gave 65 percent of its vote to Donald Trump a year ago, the GOP controls pretty much everything: the governorship and every statewide office, both U.S. Senate seats, all five House seats. The state Legislature is almost laughably one-sided; Republicans have super-majorities of more than 70 percent of the seats in each chamber.

But in the last four months, voters have repudiated those Republicans running Oklahoma at the polls. Democrats have captured four state legislative seats held by the GOP, two in special elections for the House and two for the Senate. The most recent—and perhaps the most surprising—win occurred last week, when a 26-year-old lesbian Democrat named Allison Ikley-Freeman edged out the Republican candidate by 31 votes in a conservative state House district near Tulsa that went heavily for Trump in 2016. Democrats may have a chance to make an even bigger statement in a few months, when a vacancy caused by the likely Senate confirmation of Representative Jim Bridenstine to be NASA administrator could trigger a special congressional election in the district that includes Tulsa.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-red-state-revolt-spreads-to-oklahoma/ar-BBFMoIu?li=BBnb7Kz
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