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Main Page | Thursday, November 27, 2008 Why we went dark By David Arnett, Publisher    Thursday, 27 November 2008 Monday morning Tulsa Today posted an analysis by veteran New York journalist and the recipient of seven Long Island Press Awards, Joan Swirsky, titled, “The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of ‘08” questioning the missing Barack Obama birth certificate and his eligibility to serve as President of the United States.  Two hours and 10,000 page views later, our local Internet Service Provider and domain hosting service, Tulsa Connect locked us off the Internet. This action was taken without warning or...

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 —...

Among Oklahomans, Mr. Cook and Mr. White are hardly alone. Though the state’s Democrats still outnumber its Republicans, you would never know it by looking at the election results. Oklahoma voters went for Senator John McCain by almost two to one, bucking the tide that swept Mr. Obama to the presidency. Not a single one of the state’s 77 counties backed Mr. Obama, despite his endorsement by the popular Democratic governor, Brad Henry. ... Indeed, the state has a political landscape closely resembling that of the old solidly Democratic South, especially in its southeastern corner, known as Little Dixie, where...

Republican Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma's blunt-speaking conservative senator, won a third full term Tuesday as he cruised past Democrat Andrew Rice, a state senator and former missionary. Inhofe was elected in 1994 to replace Democrat David Boren, who resigned to become a university president. Rice, 35, campaigned aggressively for the post, but it was an uphill fight from the start against Inhofe, a fixture in Oklahoma politics for five decades. The 73-year-old Inhofe spent $6 million in his re-election bid, more than twice as much as Rice, a freshman state senator from Oklahoma City. Inhofe, a former mayor of Tulsa and...

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain picked up a trio of red states early in the night Tuesday, with multiple media outlets projecting a GOP victory in South Carolina, Tennessee, and Oklahoma. All three were polling fairly strongly for McCain, although there was some indication that the race had been tightening in South Carolina. The states are mid-weights in the Electoral College, with Oklahoma adding 7, Tennessee 11, and South Carolina 8, adding 26 votes to McCain's total. McCain's victory in South Carolina eliminates the possibility that rival Democrat Barack Obama could sweep the Atlantic seaboard. Obama was down by 10...

OK, SC called for McCain by FoxNews.com

During October, the Tulsa World Opinion section was dedicated to an interesting project. The best and the brightest from Oklahoma Democratic and Republican parties were invited to write op-ed pieces on why they thought John McCain or Barack Obama was the best candidate for president of the United States. We asked U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and former U.S. Rep. James R. Jones to discuss foreign affairs in the election. Former Gov. Frank Keating and former U.S. Rep. Brad Carson debated the two candidates on economic issues. U.S. Rep. Tom Cole and Gov. Brad Henry discussed why they thought their candidate...

Facing several angry constituents at a town hall meeting, U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn defended his vote for the economic rescue plan by saying Monday it was critical to restart the country’s flow of credit. Advertisement Failure to pass the $700 billion bailout could have had dire consequences, Coburn said, predicting unemployment rates would have skyrocketed without the move. "I would vote that way again and again because the innocent in our society shouldn’t be paying for all these mistakes,” said Coburn, R-Muskogee. Those who disagreed with Coburn’s vote said they are concerned the Wall Street bailout is an unacceptable federal...

TvPoll: McCain-Palin By 41, Inhofe By 25 A new TvPoll for KWTV-Channel 9 indicates a Republican sweep of the state this year. The new poll reinforces earlier polls showing the McCain-Palin Republican ticket trouncing the Obama-Biden Democrat ticket and incumbent Senator Jim Inhofe running far ahead of Democrat Andrew Rice. In the new poll, McCain-Palin are at 68.8 percent, Obama-Biden at just 27.4 percent. In the Senate race, Inhofe is at 55.7 percent, Rice at just 30.6 percent.

Not only does the GOP presidential nominee have the backing of 95% of Republicans, but 41% of Oklahoma Democrats support him, too. Fifty-five percent (55%) of Democrats favor Obama. Unaffiliated voters are nearly evenly divided over the two candidates.

By Tony Thornton Staff Writer MUSKOGEE — The John McCain biographies are replete with information about his paternal grandfather, a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy. His maternal grandfather, Archibald Wright? Not so much. Nancy Calhoun thinks she knows why. "This is one skeleton that the McCains probably wish would stay in the closet,” said Calhoun, who is director of genealogy and local history at the Muskogee Public Library. Wright spent more than two decades in Muskogee. His twin daughters, including McCain's mother, Roberta Wright McCain, grew up in a three-story home that still stands at 1027 W Martin Luther...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Even Democratic officials concede Republican John McCain will beat Democrat Barack Obama in the presidential race in Oklahoma.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A new poll found little support among Oklahoma voters for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. The Oklahoma Poll found that Republican John McCain has broad support in the state to lead Obama by 32%age points, 56% to 24%.

Oklahoma City (AP) - Democratic Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma said Tuesday Barack Obama is "the most liberal senator" in Congress and he has no intention of endorsing him for the White House. ... Boren, the lone Democrat in Oklahoma's congressional delegate, said that while Obama has talked about working with Republicans, "unfortunately, his record does not reflect working in a bipartisan fashion."

Rep. Dan Boren, the lone Democrat in Oklahoma's congressional delegation, has declined to endorse Barack Obama, describing the Illinois senator as "the most liberal senator in the U.S. Senate." "Our nominee is not my first choice," Mr. Boren said in an Associated Press interview. Mr. Boren, who is seeking a third term in a conservative district, argued problems such as a stalling economy and high gas prices require a bipartisan spirit and "unfortunately, [Mr. Obama's] record does not reflect working in a bipartisan fashion." Also at source: Obama Establishes Internet War Room Plagued by e-mail rumors that he is a...

Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama’s campaign, in an internal memo, is disputing one Democratic congressman’s characterization of the Illinois senator’s record after the member went on the record Tuesday saying he would not endorse his party’s nominee. Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) told The Associated Press that Obama is too liberal for his district, and he does not work well with Republicans despite his rhetoric. In the internal memo, which was obtained by The Hill, the campaign lays out surrogate talking points and says that “unfortunately, Congressman Boren has his facts wrong.” The document outlines a way for surrogates to refute...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, D-Okla., said Tuesday he will not endorse Barack Obama for president. "I still remain very concerned about the (Obama) voting record being the most liberal of the United States Senate," said Boren, a superdelegate to this summer’s national Democratic convention in Denver. He expressed support for what he described as a "centrist" agenda, adding his party’s presumptive nominee’s record does not reflect that approach.

Senator James M. Inhofe Floor Statement Climate Debate June 2, 2008  Selected Excerpts of Senator Inhofe’s floor statement: We believe that any climate legislation must offer Clean Energy Solutions. Substantial investment must be made in new, clean energy technologies which generate more energy efficiently by producing less carbon, without the government picking winners and losers.  It makes good business sense to produce energy more efficiently and American companies are at the forefront of developing new technologies.  We support investments in solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and other innovative technologies.  But we must be careful not to interfere in the free market system or...

Shortly after filing paperwork for reelection, Senator Inhofe announced a brand new TV ad, highlighting his record of accomplishment and positive leadership for Oklahoma in the Senate! The ad begins tomorrow, and will help to officially kick off the Senator’s 2008 campaign!

A presidential nominee picks a running mate to win a state, send a message or, ideally, do both. John F. Kennedy went with Lyndon Johnson in 1960 because he wanted to win Texas. Ronald Reagan picked George H.W. Bush of Texas in 1980 to assure the moderate Republican Party establishment that he could and would work with them. And now somebody should plant a bug in John McCain’s ear about the man who could help him nail down a few must-win states and, more importantly, send a much-needed message to voters. That man is Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, the cussed...