I'll be off to vote later after my wife comes home.
Every person I vote for in my state is going to lose, most by a gigantic margin. Some races that affect me feature incumbents running unopposed.
Oklahoma is a deeply backward state in too many ways, and when the day is done here it will have taken a decisively regressive step by finally simultaneously handing the governorship and both houses of the legislature to the Republican party.
Big deal, right?
The Oklahoma Republican party is far to the right of the nearly insane national GOP. Every crackpot right wing idea you've heard of being floated in other states or by so-called "Tea Party" folks or conspiracy nuts will be front and center on the legislative agenda in this state once Mary Fallin is elected governor, and the takeover is complete.
Think Birthers, Tenthers, nullifiers and interpositionists, anti-abortion zealots, immigration extremists, theocratic assholes and the like, and you've just got a notion of what politics will look like for 2011 Oklahoma. Pay attention to what happens here the next year or so, for it will be a preview of what will occur nationally if the inmates take over the Federal asylum, as they so rabidly hope to do.
I'll be voting today, because it is the right thing to do, and my vote on some of the state questions (which include one of those lunatic right wing things about Sharia Law) may make a difference.
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