Oklahoma now plurality-Republican by registration

[IceSpear]

Good. All the fake Democrats who vote straight ticket Republican for everything (even local races) need to GTFO. I'm tired of them giving ammunition to Oldies too.

[IceSpear]

The responses in this thread are a perfect case study for why arrogant liberals can't win the votes of "working class Whites."

I thought you WANTED these people to be Democrats...

And yeah, I'm sure some random people in Oklahoma (besides Bushie) care what posters on uselectionatlas.org say and base their votes around it. It's not like Democratic politicians say the kind of stuff in this thread.

[IceSpear]

The Dixiecrats are dying.

Literally and figuratively.

Gotta love that big tent. Thanks national Democratic party.

No thanks on the tent that includes people who consistently vote for Jim Inhofe.

[IceSpear]

The Dixiecrats are dying.

Literally and figuratively.

Gotta love that big tent. Thanks national Democratic party.

No thanks on the tent that includes people who consistently vote for Jim Inhofe.

By your logic you prefer Fallin to Dorman. You are good Republican!!!!!

P.S. When some idiotic "progressives" will understand that not everyone is so enamored of their "progressive savoirs" candidates and wants to vote for them??? And that in many states such candidates cause nothing, but resentment (sometimes - even hatred) of majority of voters, and insisting on running only them as Democratic candidates is a guarantee of failure.....

Sometimes i get a feeling that "progressives" are absolutely convinced that they bought the whole party with hard cash and now can do with it what they want. That never was, and, as long, as there are only 2 big parties in the country, probably, will never happen.... If there would be 3-4 - then may be... But then party success would be much more modest...

When did I say that? Dorman is fine for his state, better than Fallin would've been. But saying Democrats should make an extra effort to include far right Oklahomans in their coalition is like telling the GOP they should try to bring far left hippies from the Bay Area in their coalition. It's ludicrous.

And stop lying. They don't run progressives in Oklahoma, they ran blue dogs and lose in a landslide anyway.

[IceSpear]

The Dixiecrats are dying.

Literally and figuratively.

Gotta love that big tent. Thanks national Democratic party.

No thanks on the tent that includes people who consistently vote for Jim Inhofe.

You're never going to win over anyone with that attitude...

I love this idea from so many democrats that for whatever reason they will just win over the hearts and minds of voters even while the Republicans are doing incredibly well at almost every level of government. So please write off Oklahoma when they voted for a dem for rep. in 2010 and had a dem governor for most of the 2000's. We should be wanting to at least try to whittle down the Republican advantage that they have usurped from us all over country.

But please keep that faith that there's nothing wrong with our message and that we're going to win eventually while Republicans win Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, and 2/3rd's of statehouses.

You're assuming that these "registered Democrats" have any Democratic values whatsoever. Stats like this beg to differ:

An example of how ridiculous the registration in OK is...

Pushmataha County has a 63% D advantage but went 71-25 Inhofe in 2014.

Don't get me wrong, if these people were sympathetic to any vaguely left position whatsoever it wouldn't be a good thing. But it's pretty clear they aren't. They're simply relics from an earlier time going to the party they already vote straight ticket for every single election. Even local Democrats are dead in these conservadem bastions, so what's the point of them remaining registered in the party?

And if we're going to talk about attitude, how badly did GOP voters (AND their elected officials, which isn't the case with Democratic elected officials) constantly bash Massachusetts in 2004? I'm pretty sure that didn't stop them from electing Scott Brown or Charlie Baker.

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And stop lying. They don't run progressives in Oklahoma, they ran blue dogs and lose in a landslide anyway.

Lying? It's you who is lying. The names of Fred Harris and Mike Synar are not familiar to you as i see? Both even won, and not once. Oklahoma tolerated them for considerable time. But whom Democrats ran for Senate last time in Oklahoma? A couple of liberals (if i remember correctly - one black and one gay). And that in a very conservative Oklahoma!!! Idiocy, to say the least. Both REALLY lost in a landslide (by 38-39%), while moderate conservative Dorman lost only by about 14-15%, getting more then 41% in very conservative state in very Republican year (instead of 32-33% for your beloved Obama even with much bigger turnout). Feel the difference and REALLY stop lying, a "progressive")))))

Uh, the guy who ran against Inhofe has a wife. But regardless, how would the fact that they're black and/or gay automatically make them "progressive liberals"? And you seem to be under the impression that these people still support "the right kind of Democrat". Long time incumbent Democrats who were extremely conservative lost in West Virginia last year. The liberal wing of the Republican Party died a long time ago, and the conservative wing of the Democratic Party is following suit. It's no huge surprise.