and hopefully indicative of a national backlash against the Republican party. This is amazing, especially in the red state of Oklahoma.

But now they're going to have to call her Senator Ikley-Freeman for a while. Too bad, so sad.

Rec'd

Any word on the other two OK elections that I have heard about.

I haven't gotten a email yet from the DLCC asking for money bragging about another big victory.

But one flip in deep red Oklahoma is great

Congrats Allison!

Every GOP candidate should have his/her picture paired with Trump.

these things and posting them here -- I appreciate your energy!

I'm very happy for you

I wish you to flip as much seats as you can from red to blue.

Is Oklahoma traditionally a red state or is it a state where Republicans and Democrats are governing alternatively ?

Democrats won the Senate District 37 special in Oklahoma. A district Trump won with 67% of the vote!

Link to tweet

Huge color shift

Great news

GOTV everywhere

Maybe even especially in Oklahoma. My mother lives in a deep red state and just stopped voting. After Trump I’ve been harping on her.

“If you vote, you’re probably going to lose. If you don’t vote, you’re DEFINITELY going to lose.”

Personally, I think that’s the number one reason Hillary lost the “blue wall” states. Too many people figured “Oh, look at the polls. My vote won’t even matter.”

So, why not ... Senate candidate, a Republican, is married to a woman ... in a covenant relationship.

Equality and all that, no?

“Congratulations to Allison Ikley-Freeman on her victory in her state Senate race, which flipped one more Republican-held seat from red to blue, a district that Trump carried just last year. At 26, Ikley-Freeman becomes the third openly gay person to be elected to the Oklahoma legislature. As we saw earlier this year, Oklahomans are voting for Democrats in these deep-red districts because they know our candidates will work to resolve the budget crisis facing Oklahomans and help build an economy that works for every working family, not just a wealthy few. Tonight’s results have once again added to our growing streak of victories from last week and over the summer. But this is just the beginning. The DNC is proud to have invested in this race and we will continue working with the Oklahoma Democratic Party to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.”

https://www.democrats.org/more/press

they were waving VA aside saying it was blue anyway (though the districts involved were red and flipped)

Shining example as to why we need more young people in leadership roles.

Hopefully, Doug Jones (D-AL) will be able to do the same. The key is staying local it seems.

The national attention is going to boost overal turnout. And for a red state like Alabama, it's not good for us.

It has saddened me that the state where I went to college many years ago has declined so much economically, in education, and sunk into the altright disaster thinking.