Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Socialists second-largest party in Oklahoma?

This Oklahoma Gazette article on ballot access quotes a Common Cause official saying that, "the Socialists were the second-biggest party in Oklahoma for a while".

Richard Winger of Ballot Access News says this is an exaggeration, but he adds: "The Socialist Party got 20.8% of the gubernatorial vote in 1914", and "after the 1914 election, the Socialist Party had 6 state legislators in Oklahoma", compared to 22 Republicans.

Even if we weren't the second-largest party in the past, you can help make us the largest in the future!