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Former U.S. Rep. Tom Coburn and former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys are about even in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, according to a statewide poll. The poll, sponsored by the Tulsa World and KOTV-Channel 6, showed Coburn with 37 percent support, Humphreys with 34 percent and state Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony with 7 percent. Jay Richard Hunt had 1 percent and 21 percent said they were undecided. The difference between Coburn and Humphreys is well within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 5.9 percentage points. If no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the...

The race for the open United States Senate seat left by Sen. Don Nickles is heating up. Those running include Tom Coburn, Bob Anthony, Kirk Humphries, as the Republicans. The Democrat is Brad Carson. Bob Anthony came and spoke to the OSU College Republicans. Bob is a first class kind of guy. He spoke about different things he's done as Corporation Commissioner. Including wearing an FBI wire, and getting people put away who were trying to bribe him. He spoke of a race in the 80's for Corporation Commissioner. A Democrat had held the seat for 40 years. Everyone told...

Muskogee - Former Oklahoma Congressman Tom Coburn will seek election to the U.S. Senate, it was announced Monday. Coburn, who served from 1994-2000 as a Congressman, says he has "resolved to follow my convictions and seek to become Oklahoma's next U.S. Senator." Coburn says he believes the country has a "deficit of moral courage in the United States Congress," and that the Congress "lacks effective leadership to control spending and point out the process by which self serving politicians sell our children down the river with deficit spending." Coburn, a Republican from Muskogee, served in the Congress for six years...