Romney could win your state.
I not so sure! He came in 3rd behind McCain and Huckabee in our primary. He wouldn’t win here in the primary and can guarantee you that not all the counties would go for Romney.
Would be willing to bet that most of the 2nd District would not vote for Romney. I was in the heart of the 2nd District during the primaries several times and they were anyone but Romney.
Romney stiffed the GOP Convention in 2007 at the last minute — like the night before. A lot of the Party rank and file don’t want anything to do with him for a host of reasons and his surrogates made people even madder in the State.
Wouldn’t say it was a given with Romney. You have to remember that Istook at the request of Romney and the Mormon Church took light rail and road and bridge money that was to come to Oklahoma and sent it to Salt Lake for the Winter Olympics. Lot of bad feelings still in the state about that and probably why Istook didn’t run for reelection when it came out and a reason he was soundly defeated.
ANY Republican would win OK in a general election for President, but some Republicans would cause a depressed turnout. If Slick Willard had been on the ticket, it would’ve been a far greater loss and my state would’ve kept the rodents in power in the House (albeit via gerrymandering, which is terrible here). I’m trying to counsel the incoming majority to put redistricting on the schedule to keep them from grabbing back control in 2010 and shutting us out as they have for decades on end. Understand we won 1.1+ million to their 900k votes for the legislature and STILL only won by 1 seat. That’s got to be corrected... (Sorry for going off on a diff tangent there).