[No Dems 2004]

"Barone said the Republicans would probably lose Oklahoma."

Why would he have said that? I don't understand why they would make a prediction like that about one of the South's most Republican states (at the federal level, at least). Brad Carson isn't a god. Personally, I think the GOP will hold this one ... does anybody have a good reason why they won't?

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

I don't understand why they would make a prediction like that about one of the South's most Republican states (at the federal level, at least). Brad Carson isn't a god. Personally, I think the GOP will hold this one ... does anybody have a good reason why they won't?

The only reason I've heard is that Carson could turn it into a rural vs. city contest with Carson uniting all the rural folk behind him. However, Carson loses if the "liberal" label is stuck to him, which Kirk Humphreys is already getting started on doing. The OK GOP saw what happened with Largent and seem determined not to make the same mistakes twice.