How Did Everyone Else Fare?

[Conan71]

If the elections were like a sports picker poll, how did everyone else fare?

Here's mine:

Winners:

Adelson-D
McDaniel-D
Keith-D
Cloud-R
Inhofe-R
Sullivan-R

Street questions
Yes
Yes

State questions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

Judges- eh, don't remember, I voted to retain about half.

Losers:

McCain
Roth

12 out of 14 not counting the judges.  86% Not bad.

I should probably be ashamed of my judicial voting logic.  There was one I didn't like their name and I voted "out".  I voted Wiseman "out", both appeals judges out, and every other judge on the Ok supreme court got an "out" vote from me.

Of interesting note, Wiseman was the only judge I recall Michael Bates writing should be outed.  At one point last night, she had one of the higher retainage percentages of the judges on the ballot.

I honestly did not have a feel for the Bell/Keith race until I saw the results last night.  I'm curious if KFAQ and Bates being in the tank for Sally hurt her some.  I honestly don't see fund-raising disparities being the only issue in Bell's loss.

[rwarn17588]

I'm 4-5 in my fantasy football league and have lost two in a row. [xx(]

Oh ... you mean politics. I thought you were talking about something that matters. []

[waterboy]

I score badly in local elections. No one has ever accused me of being clearly identified with the general consensus in Tulsa!

I voted pretty much all Democratic and to retain all judges. Even Wiseman.

I voted against the street proposals. No one has ever asked why except my wife. She was unimpressed with my arguments and promptly cancelled out my votes.

Against the sham Wine proposal but in favor of the other issues.

I couldn't bring myself to vote for Inhofe or Sullivan. However, I scored big with Karen Keith and in the presidential race. I predicted over 300 ev and 6% popular vote margin. Final was what, 349 and 6%? Nostradamus my butt.[]

Would like to have seen OK purple up a bit but we're always a little behind the curve as Bruno says. Progress has been made.

[sgrizzle]

11 for 13. (I didn't have county kommisar)

[Neptune]

I had Karen Keith winning quite a while ago.  Name recognition is so important, and Karen Keith is known by so many people in Eastern Oklahoma that Bell would have a hard time beating that.  Karen had a nearly monolithic edge in that category.  And even if people recognized the name "Bell", it would end up being associated with Bell's Amusement Park, which people have mixed feelings about.  Then there's the "does Bell really want it" question.  Bell ran on a grudge, some people are aware of that.

Plus, Oklahoma is NOT a purely Republican state.  Oklahoma still does not have a Republican majority in registered voters.   Yeah, Obama was never going to win here and incumbents rarely lose here; but a lot of Democratic Conservatives bounce back to the Party in down-ballot races without an incumbent.  And a lot of Oklahomans understand the VAST difference between National Politics and State/Local Politics.

[Conan71]

Nep- did you notice even with the whole economic debacle and bailout that no incumbent (according to the TW this morning) from the Oklahoma HOR delegation got less than 66% of the vote in their re-election bid?

[Neptune]

That's pretty wild.  I didn't pay attention to the state much I guess.  Not even Dem incumbents lost?  Were the GOP pickups in the state all open seats?

[Hometown]

Did okay on President.  

I remember growing up here I always inherently knew that just about anything that Oklahoma did was going to be full of hell fire and hatefulness.  I felt a sense of physical danger from about 14 years of age onwards.  But that was okay because I knew that ultimately I would be protected by the U.S. Supreme Court.  

Then times changed and we experienced the ascendancy of the Republican Party and then Republicans stacked the Supreme Court with Right Wingers and now I'm afraid if I was growing up here now I wouldn't feel the same sort of protection from the Supreme Court that I did in the 50s, 60s and 70s.

This election reminded me of what I hadn't really forgotten about Oklahoma.  Our only real hope comes from outside of the state.  Maybe we can change that some day.

[cynical]

I'm pretty much a straight-party yellow-dog Democrat, though I've strayed from time to time when the local candidate just smelled too bad.

I didn't stray this time, so as usual my presidential vote was a protest against the prevailing mood here.  I wasn't surprised that my choice for State Senate, Nancy Riley lost, but I was as surprised about the margin as I was when Sally Bell took out Randi Miller 80-20.  As you can see from TulsaNow and the TW forums, Tulsans complain a lot but they usually don't get all that riled up on election day.  Miller and Riley can tell you what happens when they do.

I wonder if "Uncle Ted" Stevens would have been re-elected if he had run in Oklahoma.  Inhofe isn't even that good at bringing home the bacon, though he did get funding for the low-water dam project after the defeat of the river project.