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voicesofoklahoma.com. please welcome our candidates to the states. -- to the stage. [applause] by way of introduction, congress grant mary fallin is the candidate for governor of oklahoma with of 19 years in office. she was first elected as a state representative in 1990. if she was legislator of the year for her work in the oklahoma state legislature. she became the first woman lieutenant governor in 1995, a position she held for 12 years. in 2006 she was elected to the united states congress. please welcome congresswoman mary fallin. [applause] jari askins has been a public servant...

state. that means getting money to the classroom where it belongs. it means working at any kind of duplicative administrative costs that might take away from getting money to the teachers and the classrooms. it means having high performance standards. we also need to work on making sure that each child as they move from grade to grade is proficient at great appropriate levels. there is a great saying that says from the first to the third grade a child learns how to read, but from the fourth grade on they love to read. that is where our focus needs to be. how can we raise the bar on o...

Decision 2010 time. if it is wednesday, that means we have results. and the results are coming in from oklahoma. the next governor, i can tell you this, it is going to be a woman. we can call it here on nbc news. oklahoma will elect a woman for governor. she joins new mexico as one of two states featuring an all female general election match-up for governor in the republican primary. congresswoman mary fouler won with 55% of the vote against randy brogden who picked up 39%. on the democratic side, jerry askins won a close primary. she had just over 50% of the vote over drew ed mondayson who ha...

all right. time now to talk about what we learned today very quickly. >> we have so many people here, there's no time for me. we'll go to carl. >> i learned that there is no appetite for celebrity news according to mika. >> tom? >> i actually learned we won world war ii. >> yes. >> barnacle. hurry. >> i'll go to chris. >> hurry. >> i live in a town with a documentary on hunger coming out. >> i learned we have a vice presidential candidate on "morning joe" today, governor chris christie, governor of new jersey. >> chuck todd, i know why we are late, and it is not because joe is here, ...

Runoff early on, a lot thought baker and barnes might avoid the runoff. we will see. wrapping up, on the 30th, term limited brad henry in oklahoma. democratic attorney general drew ed monson and lieutenant governor jerry askins are running but this is a state that may be primed for a takeover. congresswoman mary fallin has a tea party challenger in state senator randy brogdon but gave older the republican side and end up in the governor's mansion. as i promised you, savannah, i know your going to be labor day. would you like nobody charlotte, north carolina, labor day, 2012, perhaps st. louis,...