Status Quo Or Change?

Is it too much to suggest that the elections this year, and this one's a vital part of the, you know, we had our primary in June, we have the runoff now, the general election in November, really has the potential to set the the tone for Oklahoma for the next decade? Are we going to continue toward and maybe off the precipice, or are we going to see a swing back? We think every election's consequential, and they are, but this one seems more so.

Have I just been Trumpified in all this?

Yeah, I absolutely don't think so.

You know, these state questions alone, you know, have some extreme importance for the future of the state.

Bankrupt, you know, possibly bankrupting our schools and our local communities, you know, for starts, who, you know, then have to find ways to raise revenue other ways because our legislature is too weak-kneed to do it.

But then our AG race is, I would say, the most important race on the ticket this year.

So... you know, we've got, it's not just that August race, but just everything this year to come is extraordinarily important for the future of the state.

You know, we're already a playing ground for people that self-deal and work only for their own interests.

And that could get so much worse.

And I'm sorry, I'm just going to like, keep rambling for a second, but this idea of the state question that Again, the reference to that question that can possibly bankrupt our schools and our local communities, that just opens things even further for private interests to intercede around the state in already impoverished, vulnerable communities.

I don't think you're exaggerating at all.

If anything, maybe understating the perils in front of us.

Well, um, On that perhaps gloom and doom view, let me play the other side of the ledger, and that would be what I've been yakking about for more than a year.

If I'm right and there's a nationwide blue tsunami that is saying whatever's been going on under this guy, meaning Trump, over the last 15, 18 months, We just can't stand any more of it.

And it may even, it may even, that tsunami may be a wave, a ripple, a stream or whatever in Oklahoma.

And there's some evidence of that.

Let me explain.

A month ago, among Republicans in Oklahoma, Trump's approval rating was... compared to other states, pretty high.

It was still 62%.

It had been in the 80s.

This month, as a couple days ago, it's now at 52%.

So my view is, and I think we can count on him to do this, if over the next 80 days, 78 days, Trump continues to do everything wrong from the point of view of a family who's trying to put food on the table, I think a blue tsunami is a real possibility.

And how would that translate in Oklahoma can be the next question.

Well, it does make me wonder when you say that, because one of the two Republican survivors into the gubernatorial runoff, Mike Macy, this is his campaign in a nutshell.

No matter what you ask him, he responds with three sentences.

Is it too much to suggest that the elections this year, and this one's a vital part of the, you know, we had our primary in June, we have the runoff now, the general election in November, really has the potential to set the the tone for Oklahoma for the next decade? Are we going to continue toward and maybe off the precipice, or are we going to see a swing back? We think every election's consequential, and they are, but this one seems more so.

Have I just been Trumpified in all this?

Yeah, I absolutely don't think so.

You know, these state questions alone, you know, have some extreme importance for the future of the state.

Bankrupt, you know, possibly bankrupting our schools and our local communities, you know, for starts, who, you know, then have to find ways to raise revenue other ways because our legislature is too weak-kneed to do it.

But then our AG race is, I would say, the most important race on the ticket this year.

So... you know, we've got, it's not just that August race, but just everything this year to come is extraordinarily important for the future of the state.

You know, we're already a playing ground for people that self-deal and work only for their own interests.

And that could get so much worse.

And I'm sorry, I'm just going to like, keep rambling for a second, but this idea of the state question that Again, the reference to that question that can possibly bankrupt our schools and our local communities, that just opens things even further for private interests to intercede around the state in already impoverished, vulnerable communities.

I don't think you're exaggerating at all.

If anything, maybe understating the perils in front of us.

Well, um, On that perhaps gloom and doom view, let me play the other side of the ledger, and that would be what I've been yakking about for more than a year.

If I'm right and there's a nationwide blue tsunami that is saying whatever's been going on under this guy, meaning Trump, over the last 15, 18 months, We just can't stand any more of it.

And it may even, it may even, that tsunami may be a wave, a ripple, a stream or whatever in Oklahoma.

And there's some evidence of that.

Let me explain.

A month ago, among Republicans in Oklahoma, Trump's approval rating was... compared to other states, pretty high.

It was still 62%.

It had been in the 80s.

This month, as a couple days ago, it's now at 52%.

So my view is, and I think we can count on him to do this, if over the next 80 days, 78 days, Trump continues to do everything wrong from the point of view of a family who's trying to put food on the table, I think a blue tsunami is a real possibility.

And how would that translate in Oklahoma can be the next question.

Well, it does make me wonder when you say that, because one of the two Republican survivors into the gubernatorial runoff, Mike Macy, this is his campaign in a nutshell.

No matter what you ask him, he responds with three sentences.