Posted on 11/08/2008 1:59:10 AM PST by goldstategop
Mapping the election results county-by-county across America, most states reveal a quilted pattern of red and blue, with a few solid blue patches in the Northeast.
Only one state turns solid red.
"Inside the room, the noise was all positive" at the Republican watch party on election night in Oklahoma City, state GOP chairman Gary Jones said Wednesday.
"Outside of Oklahoma, things were different."
Oklahoma was the only place in the whole country where every single county voted for John McCain, making it the reddest of the red states.
McCain took 65.6 percent of the total vote in Oklahoma nearly two out of three voters. He even topped 80 percent in several western counties and approached 90 percent across the Panhandle.
Barack Obama performed best in Muskogee and the surrounding counties but never came within 5 points of a majority.
"Why are we the most single conservative red state out of 50?" asked Ivan Holmes, the state Democratic Party chairman. "I don't know. I really don't know, but we are."
Voting patterns prove it, he said, because 30 percent of Oklahoma Democrats vote Republican in almost every election.
The Democratic Party simply hasn't done a good job of recruiting candidates that reflect the conservative nature of Oklahoma, Holmes said.
Tuesday's election gave the GOP control of the state Senate for the first time in history and added four seats to the party's majority in the state House.
Of course, it's not that Democrats never win in Oklahoma, as evidenced by Democratic Gov. Brad Henry's presence Tuesday night at Obama's victory celebration in Chicago.
But in Oklahoma, Democrats sometimes distance themselves from the national party.
U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, for example, made headlines in June when he refused to endorse his own party's presidential nominee because of Obama's record, which Boren described as "the most liberal in the United States Senate."
The only non-Republican in the state's congressional delegation, Boren later made it clear that he would vote for Obama.
But in August, he broke party ranks again to criticize a plank in the Democratic platform that called for "standing up to oil companies."
Oklahoma's deep red complexion comes mostly from the state's religious demographics, said Keith Gaddie, a pollster and professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma.
Socially conservative evangelicals have a majority.
"It's just who we are," Gaddie said.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Wow! That’s amazing!
Too bad they’re surrounded! :-\
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Sounds like a nice place to live.
I’m proud to be of Sooner ancestry... I only got to spend a year there, but it was the best year of my life... now I’m stuck in California hell.
My son is in school in Oklahoma, where I am from. I am very proud of him, his vote, and the state.
And right next door Nebraska keeps that son of a bitch Hagel.
Did you read the reader’s comments on that story? It will be a miracle if we survive to the next generation.
There is cause for hope.
Are there any Catholics in Oklahoma? If so, I’m movin’. The weather would be heck, as I’m used to living in a beach house on the west coast. But even the nice weather here is not worth being surrounded by leftists, loonies, lesbians, druggies and deadbeats.
if you like tornados
It will take them at least 90 years before they follow their elitist intellectual betters in CA and NY and embrace socialsim, gay rights, baby killing and smoker bans. </sarcasm>
The tornado of American Liberalism, which has already morphed into far-Left socialism and will soon be perceived by everyone around the world and at home as Fascist Collectivism, will be far more destructive than any and all tornados which have occurred since since the beginning of history, combined. If Oklahoma is a refuge from that, then windy funnels are not to be feared.
bump! ping! bump!
Diocese of Tulsa and Diocese of Oklahoma City.
It is a nice place to live.
Two comments on this article, Oklahoma isn’t Republican, its Conserative. Media never can see that those are not the same thing.
Whenever there is an election in this state you can always tell which candidate is the Democrat. They’re the one who never lists their party on their signs, ads, etc.
Conservative and Republican these days are two entirely different things; I’ll take conservative. Oklahoma sounds very nice, indeed.
Thanks Meek. You won’t move me out of Texas but even our ‘red’ is fading a bit. [dang the dems for taking over blue, red should be their color!!]
You’re welcomed.
Yep! I was slightly amazed when I saw the map and found
that DALLAS COUNTY went for Obozo !!
Really disappointing alrighty ...
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