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The OkiePundit award for Best Campaign Commercial. Winner: Todd Lamb’s “Meet My Dad.” The OkiePundit award for Worst Campaign Commerical. “Winner”: RJ Harris for “Champion of the Republic/Monster Truck Rally”

The unofficial results are in, the numbers have been crunched and OkiePundit demonstrated surprising accuracy in our primary election predictions. Governor – Mary Fallin We were optimistic in our prediction of Fallin’s margin of victory. She would have achieved a larger margin had she chosen to define Brogdon rather than ignore him. His negative ads [...]

We’re going to have a post mortem of the election results.  What we have to say may surprise you. Congratulations to all the winners and to all who ran a good, honest campaign.

It’s official; polls have closed and results will soon start coming in from primary elections around the state. We’ll see who was right and who was wrong in all of the analysis and prognostication of the last few months. You can click the “Predictions” tab in the Categories section along the right side of the [...]

Monday was our biggest traffic day yet, with nearly 3000 people visiting the site.  This weekend also saw huge traffic inflows, with an average of about 2300 visitors. A big thank you to all our readers.  Please come back early and often.

For weeks we’ve been hinting at bad news for the RJ Harris campaign. We’ve finally completed our investigation into Persistence Consulting, a firm of suspicious origin that was discussed on OkiePundit last year. Harris has frequently referenced Persistence Consulting polls while seeking donations. As mentioned last year, the only information available was a Persistence Consulting [...]

Send us your nominations for best and worst political mail piece you’ve received or seen. If you can, please scan it and email it to us. We already have one good candidate for worst mail piece. It’s truly terrible.

Brogdon supporters are up in arms over our post from Monday, including Ethan Sisson who tweeted “@OkiePundit is a major spin-zone. Their ability to warp the truth is astonishing and kind of sickening. Please RT.” We disagree that OkiePundit is a spin-zone but it should be clear what our purpose is. Our motto, which we [...]

The doomed gubernatorial campaign of State Senator Randy Brogdon has turned desperate, releasing a negative ad and a hard-hitting press release with outrageous misogynistic language. The argument seems to be centered on two things: First, the press release from the Brogdon campaign claims, “Rep. Fallin has accepted well over $100,000 from the investment, banking and [...]

1) We’re going to have some fun with other prominent Oklahoma bloggers.  We will have a contest. 2) Kevin Calvey and the Military.   If you have a copy of Kevin Calvey’s pushcard, please send an image copy to us at our email address in the Contact Us tab.   We’d be grateful. 3) Does Charlie [...]

Tomorrow we’ll explore the policy aspects of childhood obesity and check in on the races in Moore and Norman.

We don’t really pay attention to web statistics, but even we were surprised when we checked our site stats and saw that we will most likely hit our 18,000 unique visitor for 2010 by Friday. 18,000 may not be impressive to more established sites, but it’s impressive to us.  Thank you to all our loyal [...]

NewsOK is reporting that Matthew Hecox is withdrawing from the House District 44 Democrat primary just a day before he was set to appear in court on a charge stemming from his DUI arrest on New Year’s Eve. Hecox cited “personal reasons” as the reason for his withdraw.  The revelation that he was arrested for [...]

Via McCarville, we learn that the Tulsa World picked up our story on Dan Sullivan and Cliff Aldridge receiving questionable donations from an insurance company that will benefit from legislation Sullivan is carrying this year. Unfortunately, they didn’t credit us. We’re not credit hogs, but we did do some substantial work to find the connections [...]

Yesterday represented the largest increase in web traffic to Okie Pundit we’ve seen since we took over in December. We received dozens of emails from people wanting more information and from some wanting to provide their own information.  Several other Oklahoma political blogs picked up the Dan Sullivan and Cliff Aldridge campaign contribution story and [...]

We joined Twitter today.  We are @okiepundit. Woo! Oh, and there’s a neat little follow icon at the top right of the homepage.

Actually, we have no idea what Mike McCarville thinks of the Federalist Papers. But if he were around when they were written – and yes, we are skipping the easy age joke – we wonder if he would have described them the same way he described OkiePundit Sunday: “two anonymous writers (hard to take opinions [...]

Friends, we’ve added a page above with our contact information.  Really it’s just our email, which is okiepundit [at] gmail [dot] com.  Please feel free to send any comments, suggestions, or hate mail there.  We should have our Twitter account up and running soon, so stay tuned.

By this time on Friday, we should have our 10,000th visitor since we took over Okie Pundit just about a month ago.  This is a small number to many (I’m sure a few Oklahoma blogs get that many in a single day), but it’s not small to us.  We appreciate all our readers, especially those [...]

Hello, readers.  Over the next few weeks you will see some changes at Okie Pundit.  The most important change you will notice will be a change in authors.  As you now know, Thad can no longer run this site due to time constraints and professional obligations.  He has been generous enough to let us take [...]