Your Vote: GOP Senate Takeover Top Story
The top political story of 2008 was the Republican takeover of control of the State Senate, voters in our poll decided. That result coincides with our own evaluation.
Asked to pick the top story of the past year, those who cast votes in our poll produced these results:
GOP control of the Senate, 40%; House Speaker Lance Cargill's resignation, 17%; Auditor & Inspector Jeff McMahan's conviction and resignation, 16%; Corporation Commissioner Jim Roth's defeat by Dana Murphy, 10%; John McCain's 77-county sweep of Oklahoma, 7%; Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart's defeat, 4%; Senator Jim Inhofe's victory over Andrew Rice, 3%; and Other, 4%.
Asked to pick the top story of the past year, those who cast votes in our poll produced these results:
GOP control of the Senate, 40%; House Speaker Lance Cargill's resignation, 17%; Auditor & Inspector Jeff McMahan's conviction and resignation, 16%; Corporation Commissioner Jim Roth's defeat by Dana Murphy, 10%; John McCain's 77-county sweep of Oklahoma, 7%; Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart's defeat, 4%; Senator Jim Inhofe's victory over Andrew Rice, 3%; and Other, 4%.


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