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RedAlertPolitics.com By Rep. Jim Bridenstine | July 30, 2014 President Obama easily motivated young people across the nation to vote in 2012. He captured roughly 67 percent of the youth vote, according to the Center for Research and Information on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. Yet a recent study from Harvard reported that […]...

Fallin Maintains Double-Digit Lead  By: Pat McFerron, President, Cole Hargrave Snodgrass and Associates, Inc. Mary Fallin currently holds a 13-point lead over Democratic challenger Joe Dorman (44% Fallin vs. 31% Dorman), despite having seen her numbers fall slightly in the last four months. The other three candidates who will appear on the ballot garner support from […]...

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Information Scarce on ‘Dark Money’ Group in Superintendent Campaign By: CLIFTON ADCOCK, Oklahoma Watch An independent expenditure group that paid for television advertisements opposing State Superintendent Janet Barresi in last month’s primary has not filed required spending reports with the Oklahoma Ethics Commission. The nonprofit Oklahomans for Public School Excellence, created in May, failed to […]...

Oklahoma Governor: Fallin (R) 45%, Dorman (D) 40% Republican Mary Fallin is in a surprisingly close contest for reelection in Rasmussen Reports’ first look at the 2014 gubernatorial race in Oklahoma. A new statewide telephone survey of Likely Oklahoma Voters finds Fallin with 45% support to Democratic state Representative Joe Dorman’s 40%. Seven percent (7%) […]...

Obama must address surge in young immigrants By Sen. Jim Inhofe & Rep. Tom Cole, The Oklahoman, July 14, 2014 As one of America’s premier military installations, Fort Sill continuously accepts and trains hundreds of new U.S. Army recruits. After graduating from Fort Sill’s 10-week basic training course, these soldiers go on to help keep […]...

Wayne Greene: Three political lessons from the GOP 5th District primary BY WAYNE GREENE World Editorial Pages Editor It doesn’t really count as a prediction. I don’t have the gift of prophesy, I don’t pretend to understand greater Oklahoma City all that well, and I really didn’t say definitively who was going to win. But, […]...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today called on President Obama to include in his trip to Texas a visit to the border in order to witness first-hand the immigration crisis and surge of unaccompanied alien children (UAC): “President Obama’s failed policies and campaign tactics have driven the unprecedented flow of unaccompanied […]...