Fallin, Edmondson have leads in poll

Fallin led her chief Republican rival, state Sen. Randy Brogdon, by 38 percentage points; Edmondson pulled to a 49 percent to 33 percent lead on Lt. Gov. Jari Askins.

"In all the polling that's been done, Askins has not been able to get more than about a third," said Bill Shapard, president of SoonerPoll.com, which conducted the survey for the Tulsa World.

Edmondson and Askins were about 10 points apart in a January Oklahoma Poll, and other polling since then indicated an even closer race, especially after Edmondson, the current attorney general, advised the governor and Legislature against joining a lawsuit against federal health-care reform.

Fallin was the choice of 56 percent of the 340 Republicans surveyed, down 12 points from January

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