Reply #12: Local races?

[RoyGBiv]

Okay. Oklahoma, as an example mentioned in the OP, is then a traditionally solid Democratic state. Our legislature wavered in the last four years, but not by much, and it's going back in the other direction. Truly local positions are often held by Democrats that never even face opposition due to their popularity.

Of course what you meant to say was "local" in the sense of "national," i.e. not local ... or something. IOW, national House and Senate seats. Yeah, Oklahoma is Republican there. It shouldn't need to be that way, but it is, in large part because the national party structure abandoned this and many other Southern states. Dean has started turning that particular worm, but since Oklahoma specifically is so low on the totem poll, I don't see much changing here soon.

And why Republicans? One word: oil.