OKLAHOMA US SENATE RESULTS

[Skinner]

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CANDIDATES FOR THIS OFFICE:

Brad Carson (D)
Tom Coburn (R)

[Bossy Monkey]

1. AP says Carson (D) loses to Coburn (R)

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/APNEWSALERT?SITE=SCCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Sorry no numbers; it's just the News alert.

[RoyGBiv]

2. I don't understand this ...

It's being called for Coburn with 2% reporting.

Coburn, Tom Rep 14,946 51.66
Carson, Brad Dem 12,629 43.65
Bilyeu, Sheila Ind 1,358 4.69

A tad over ~1,300 votes, and the heavier Dem parts of the state haven't gotten anything in yet.

[Bossy Monkey]

3. Here's the news story, but it's probably based on the same numbers

I don't understand it either; it's all black magic as far as I'm concerned. No numbers in the story at all that I can see:

Nov 2, 9:01 PM EST

Coburn Wins Bruising Okla. Senate Race

By RON JENKINS
Associated Press Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Former three-term Rep. Tom Coburn kept a U.S. Senate seat in GOP hands Tuesday, defeating Rep. Brad Carson despite allegations that the Republican, an obstetrician, once sterilized a woman without her permission.

Coburn replaces GOP Sen. Don Nickles, who is retiring after 24 years in office.

During the bruising campaign, Coburn vehemently denied the allegations by a woman who said he had sterilized her several years ago. Coburn branded Carson a liberal and aligned him with prominent Democrats, running ads that showed the Democrat as a puppet with John Kerry pulling the strings.

Carson, 37, an attorney and a Rhodes scholar, wore cowboy boots on the campaign trail and tooled around in a beat-up pickup truck. He said he would fight for Oklahomans, create jobs and never embarrass the state, drawing a distinction between himself and the outspoken Coburn.
(more)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ELN_OKLAHOMA_SENATE?SITE=SCCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[RoyGBiv]

4. FWIW .. Numbers

The numbers I got were from cspan.org, which I heard is feeding the AP.

A local station, last I checked, has Carson up by a couple percentage points, but I don't know what the raw numbers were.

[Bossy Monkey]

5. Other way around

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/11/01/ap_will_be_sole_source_of_vote_count/
AP will be sole source of vote count

[RoyGBiv]

7. Yeah, sorry ...

I meant to write that, but my fingers got all jumbled up. :-)

It's looking like Sheila Bilyeu is the spoiler candidate some said she'd be. I personally gave her no chance of taking any part of the vote, but I'm guessing there's some sort of backlash against the extreme negativity of this campaign, combined with the way Carson ran his campaign.

Her total number of votes right now are the margin.

[Nicole]

6. Not looking good