[UPDATE 2: Well, the finally tally is in and while it wasn't the 58% we were hearing, it was still a very solid victory for MAPS 3. With 54.3% of the vote, MAPS 3 the people of OKC chose to keep their city moving forward. Congratulations to the Yes for MAPS campaign and their ability to put up with some extremely disappointing negative campaigning from the opposition.]
[UPDATE: We have another source telling us another exit poll has the "Yes" vote at 59%. It appears the 58% figure we reported earlier is looking more likely. Victory, we hope, is imminent.]
From what we are hearing, it’s looking like MAPS 3 will win this election running away (with ~58%). We believe it will win, but for now we’ll remain skeptical about the predictions of a blow out. Nothing is less helpful in election analysis than saying it all depends on turnout, but we’ll go ahead and say it all depends on turnout. If turnout is heavy in south OKC, then it should be a close one. We hear the unions are turning their members out, but that could just be talk, especially given the fact that many union members and their families don’t live in OKC and can’t vote there.
We’ll let you know any additional information we receive, but right now we’re confident in victory. It’s just a matter of margin right now.
This would be amazing news if true. I never had much faith the union vote was as strong as they claimed to be.