Oklahoma has almost, but never quite elected a Republican Governor. But in national politics the Sooner State has twice strayed from the Democratic reservation (Harding and Hoover).
The fear that the next big Republican wind might be a tornado has long disturbed Democratic officeholders in Oklahoma. Since 1928 they have been busily digging a storm cellar.
Last week lanky Irving Dilliard reported in the New Republic on a trip through Oklahoma, checked the Democrats' work. When Herbert Hoover's 1928 victory swept Republicans into State jobs, the Democratic legislative majority promptly put through a law separating the Presidential ticket from State office ballots, so...
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