Word: oklahomas
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...OKLAHOMA...
Democrats - Hillary Clinton cruised past Barack Obama in the Democratic race. She had been heavily favored in Oklahoma over Obama, who did not campaign in the state in the weeks leading up to the election. She received 55% of the vote to 30 percent for Obama with 86% of precincts reporting...
...metaphor right there - no one knew what was going to happen. Like a football play, Republican politics in these final days before Tuesday's vote has been a chaos of flying bodies and last-minute audibles. Romney woke up in Nashville Monday, had lunch in Atlanta, refueled in Oklahoma, and then spoke at dusk in Long Beach, California. He slept on the redeye back to West Virginia, where his schedule called for about three hours in a hotel Tuesday morning before he had to speak again to another cheering crowd. His chief rival and confirmed nemesis, John McCain, toured Romney...
...that's the trouble. "The big problem remains that you've got a central government that is dysfunctional and disorganized, and that's being kind," says Representative Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, who has been to Iraq seven times. Cole believes that the only thing that will compel Iraq's various factions to work together is the threat of U.S. withdrawal?something the Iraq Study Group proposed more than a year...
...stunned when he garnered just 4% of the vote in the Nevada caucuses. After losing South Carolina, the only state he won while in the race in 2004, he initially vowed to fight on all the way to the convention, focusing on southern states like Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma on Super Tuesday; many speculated that Edwards could play a key role in what is shaping up to be a drawn-out delegate fight between Clinton and Obama...