This post has very little content and really just serves to remind me of home – and all its political and economic glory.

As Much of Nation Went Blue, Okla. Applied Extra Coat of Red

Despite Barack Obama’s dominance nationally, Democrats are reeling in conservative Oklahoma, where John McCain made his strongest showing and the GOP snatched control of both houses of the Legislature for the first time in state history.

McCain got 65.6 percent of the vote in Oklahoma, the highest state percentage for him in the country, even though Democrats hold an edge in voter registration by about 300,000.

The senator from Arizona swept all 77 counties, repeating President Bush’s feat four years ago against Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.). No Democrat has won a presidential race here since Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide in 1964.

Although McCain was considered more moderate than the conservative Bush, he did better than the president did in 2004 in rural areas of Oklahoma, where social conservatism is dominant. …

“Oklahoma voters loved Palin,” and they respected McCain as a former prisoner of war, said Keith Gaddie, University of Oklahoma political science professor.

He said another factor working for McCain was that the state economy is in good shape, compared with that of much of the rest of the country that went for Obama. The oil and gas industry has been strong here in recent years.

Democrats had hoped to pick up a half-dozen seats in the Oklahoma House while at least holding their own in the state Senate, which had 24 Democrats and 24 Republicans.

Instead, Republicans picked up four House seats to raise their majority to 61 to 40 and gained two state Senate posts to take a 26 to 22 edge.

Sometimes I really miss home.

Although I do find it interesting that the Democratic governor felt the need to endorse Obama considering that the only Democrat in federal office specifically did not endorse Obama.

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