Posted on 10/25/2004 10:55:13 AM PDT by Gdzine
Latest Poll Has Carson Leading Coburn In Senate Race
Coburn Camp Calls Survey 'Ridiculous'
POSTED: 11:53 am CDT October 24, 2004 UPDATED: 1:22 pm CDT October 24, 2004 TULSA, Okla. -- Democratic Rep. Brad Carson is apparently ahead of Republican former Rep. Tom Coburn in the race for the U.S. Senate, according to recent poll, but there is still room for change before the Nov. 2 general election, a poll consultant said.
The Oklahoma Poll of 753 registered voters statewide found 47 percent favored Carson while Coburn was the choice of 40 percent and 13 percent were undecided.
The poll was taken Oct. 14-19 by Tulsa-based Consumer Logic and sponsored by the Tulsa World and Tulsa television station KOTV and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Coburn's campaign disputed the results.
"This is not remotely accurate," Coburn spokesman John Hart said. "The fact is that the only polls that have Carson in the lead are from the Tulsa World and the national Democrats. Everyone knows the Tulsa World wants to elect Brad Carson, but this is ridiculous."
The Carson campaign said the poll results showed that Oklahomans are "resoundingly rejecting the politics of attacking candidates' values."
"As they begin to make up their minds, voters are focusing on the candidate who they trust to fight for Oklahoma," Carson spokesman Brad Luna said.
"This poll reflects that the voters are increasingly trusting Congressman Carson when it comes to fighting for our state, bringing good-paying jobs to Oklahoma and always putting the interest of Oklahomans first."
The large number of undecided voters and the breakdown of undecided conservatives and moderates in the Oklahoma Poll leaves room for a lot of movement in the race, said Al Soltow, a poll consultant and executive director of research at the University of Tulsa.
"Even though we are only 10 days out from the Nov. 2 election, 13 percent is a significant number of undecided voters."
A breakdown of the undecided bloc in the survey, Soltow said, showed that 3 percent are liberals, 14 percent are moderates and 12 percent are conservatives.
The poll showed that Carson and Coburn are tied in Oklahoma City, each with 43 percent support from those surveyed.
In Tulsa, 48 percent said they would vote for Carson while 39 percent favored Coburn, the poll found.
In the areas outside Oklahoma City and Tulsa, 51 percent supported Carson and 38 percent said they would vote for Coburn, the polling firm said.
Registered voters. Someone ought to bring back the Tulsa Tribune and put the liberal nitwits at the World out of business.
stopped reading right there.
How the hell is this happening?
I guess we'll find out a week from tomorrow just how ridiculous they are.
The World is cooking the polls...
I guess we will Non Sequitur....but at least im happy we are going to get to do a little compare and contrast from this poll and reality.
No detail of methodology;
It ain't....
OK is no libby land.......
I swear.... in this race.... I'd like to write "none of the above". But we have to vote for Coburn to keep the Senate. If this idiot would just run a serious campaign of serious commercials about just this topic, he'd win hands down. But no... Carson yanks his chain by throwing mud, and Coburn keeps going off the deep end.
I knew the editor of the Tribune in high school - even took his daughter to the prom, so maybe I'm biased...
Unlike any election we have seen,information is being manipulated, forged and published.
I'm just hoping that the manipulators, forgers, and publishers who are doing this (i.e. The Tulsa World, NYT, WP, Newsweek, CBS, ABC, PBS...) will wake up next Wednesday morning, and endure severe anguish and humiliation.
God help us if they are successful.
Unlike any election we have seen,information is being manipulated, forged and published.
I'm just hoping that the manipulators, forgers, and publishers who are doing this (i.e. The Tulsa World, NYT, WP, Newsweek, CBS, ABC, PBS...) will wake up next Wednesday morning, and endure severe anguish and humiliation.
God help us if they are successful.
I think Coburn is running a pretty good campaign overall, most of his commercial exposes Carson's liberal voting record, and he hasnt gotten personal, Carson has now gotten way too personal with something that is not even true. ....but i have a hunch that someone "special" is coming to endorse Coburn...I could be wrong but I have a hunch.
No real Oklahomans will vote for that effeminate snob!
The only reality is a week from Tuesday. My God, people have been going on and on with every rise and fall of the polls for the last few weeks. Doesn't anyone remember what the polls showed in 2000? Almost without exception Bush went into election day as much as 8 points up in the polls. And look how it wound up.
Liars poll, and pollsters lie.
This is just the latest example.
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