Lankford Up Big According to Internal Poll
Lankford up big in Oklahoma GOP Senate primary, internal poll shows
By Aaron Blake, Washington Post
Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.) leads by 30 points in the open Oklahoma GOP Senate primary, according to a poll for his campaign.
The poll, conducted by the Tarrance Group a month ago, shows Lankford at 47 percent, state House speaker T.W. Shannon at 17 percent and professor Kevin Crow at 3 percent.
Former state senator Randy Brogdon, a tea party-aligned candidate who took 39 percent against now-Gov. Mary Fallin (R) in the 2010 primary, was not included in the poll because he wasn’t a Senate candidate yet.
As always, polls conducted for campaigns should be viewed with a degree of skepticism. But Lankford has been viewed as the favorite in the race since he got in — in large part because no other members of the state’s congressional delegation opted to run and because tea party groups have yet to rally around an alternative.