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US House Redistricting: Oklahoma
Would it have been possible to draw a congressional district in Oklahoma that Barack Obama would have won in 2008? Two different possibilities are presented, both of them long and narrow -- one stretching from north Tulsa to Lawton, the other a four-tentacled beast centered on Okmulgee, reaching into Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Logan County, the Lake Eufaula area, and Muskogee, Wagoner, and Tahlequah. But even in these districts, the best Obama could do was 51.9%.
Oklahoma State Election Board on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
A great deal of useful info from earlier elections was lost in a revamp of the Oklahoma State Election Board website. This link takes you to all available versions of the old site, going back to its launch in 1996.
26 O.S. 4-120.2: Inactive Voters
The Oklahoma law governing the designation and purging from the voter rolls of inactive voters.
Thad Beyle: Gubernatorial Power
Oklahoma has one of the constitutionally weakest chief executives -- tied for third weakest with Alabama, behind Vermont and Rhode Island. (Via Greg Ransom.)
WebGuy's Blog: Why won't Jim Inhofe stop spamming me?
"Inhofe's campaign is spamming one email address that was only used to order pizza from Papa John's Pizza. When I ordered the pizza I do not remember seeing an optional checkbox to receive Inhofe spam next to the checkboxes for pepperoni, Italian sausage, onions and anchovies. There was no fine print that stated my email address would be signed up 'as a volunteer' for the Inhofe campaign. Nevertheless, I am getting spam after spam thanking me for 'being a volunteer' for the Inhofe campaign. Why? While I am a registered Republican, that status is soon to change. I cannot and will not be a member of a party that thinks spamming people is OK." Via Politics and Technology, which says, "Don't email-append voterfile lists. You're just sending email to people who don't want it."
He ventured forth to bring light to the world | Gerard Baker - Times Online
An article of Biblical proportions -- a hilarious sendup of Obama's 1st Missionary Journey visit to Europe
Daily Kos: OK-Sen: Baseline poll
Inhofe 53, Rice 31: Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (who insists on spelling Inhofe with an extra "f") commissioned a poll for the Oklahoma Senate race between likely nominees Republican U. S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and Democrat State Sen. Andrew Rice. Zúniga is hopeful that Rice will be able to outperform Obama in the state. (McCain leads Obama 52-38.) He notes that the DSCC may send 10 workers to help Rice.
The McCarville Report Online: Are Cargill, Adkins Next To Quit?
Republican State Reps. Ron Peterson (Broken Arrow) and Susan Winchester (Chickasha) have announced they won't run for re-election. Tulsa State Rep. Dennis Adkins and disgraced former Speaker Lance Cargill may follow them out the door. Filing period is next week, June 2-4.
In Defense of RINO Hunting - WSJ.com
Pat Toomey defends against Okla. Rep. Tom Cole's claim that the Club for Growth is "stupid" to target liberal Republicans for defeat: "Winning for the sake of winning is an excellent short-term tactic, but a lousy long-term strategy.... A Republican majority is only as useful as the policies that majority produces. When those policies look a lot like Democratic ones, the base rightly questions why it should keep Republicans in power." Tom Coburn's 2004 defeat of Kirk Humphreys is mentioned. (Hat tip: John Eagleton.)
The Daily WTF: Oklahoma Leaks Tens of Thousands of Social Security Numbers, Other Sensitive Data
Don't put your SQL query in the URL, never trust your input: "Up until yesterday, April 13 2008, anyone with a web browser and the knowledge from Chapter One of SQL For Dummies could have easily accessed - and possibly, changed - any data within the [Oklahoma Department of Corrections'] databases." (Hat tip to Jim Reisert.)
