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Candidates for 2nd District see path to victory in Obama, Ryan
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jun 13, 2011 03:21pm |
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| News Date | Monday, June 13, 2011 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The 2012 election is a year and a half away, but early indications are that Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional District race could be between Barack Obama and Paul Ryan.
Neither the president nor the Republican congressman from Wisconsin will actually be on the ballot to replace Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, of course, but through them, Republicans and Democrats each see a path to victory in what is already shaping up as perhaps the most expensive and widely watched congressional races in state history.
Republicans have made it plain they intend to hang Obama around the neck of any Democrat venturing into the race. Obama is enormously unpopular in the district - and the state, for that matter - with approval ratings of 30 percent or less in most polls.
Democrats, though, think Ryan has given them their own ounce of kryptonite. His proposal to phase out Medicare in its current form seems to have been the single biggest factor in Democrats winning a congressional special election in New York a few weeks ago and may not play well in the 2nd District, which has a high percentage of poor and older voters.
"I think (Republicans) are whistling past the graveyard," state Democratic Party Chairman Wallace Collins said late last week. "They want to destroy Medicare and Medicaid and privatize Social Security. I haven't met anyone who wants to do that." |
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