SPR Tracks Oklahoma Governor's Race

By Hastings Wyman/Southern Political Report ~ While at least two earlier surveys have shown US Rep. Mary Fallin (R-OK) ahead of unannounced-but-probable contender J. C. Watts (R), a former congressman, the latest poll for next year’s GOP gubernatorial primary, taken by Wilson Research Strategies, gives Watts 39% to Fallin’s 36%, with 5% for state Sen. Randy Brogdon (R), a social conservative. Watts is expected to announce any day now. In media interviews, analysts of the Wilson poll suggest Watts gained as it began to sink in that he was likely to run. Once the only African-American Republican in Congress, Watts had high approval ratings in all the recent surveys. Meanwhile, The McCarville Report says that the records show Watts did not vote in the 2006 gubernatorial election. Watts says he sent in an absentee ballot with his wife’s ballot and doesn’t know why hers was recorded but his was not.

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