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Dr. Ervin Yen For Governor US Inactive

Dr. Ervin Yen For Governor 2022 Campaign

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If you are under the impression that voter fraud doesn't exist in Oklahoma, please take the time to read this. FIRST THEY ASKED ME TO QUIT THE RACE. A political advisor to Hofmeister's campaign (and former head of the Oklahoma Dems) asked me to remove my name from the ballot because (in his words) they were worried that my presence in the race would take the Moderate Republican and Independent votes away from Joy. Hofmeister’s campaign message was created to appeal primarily to Independent and Republican voters (which would explain her commercials). Days after the request, I started receiving strange (and quasi threatening) messages from people in leadership with the OK Dems giving me a “countdown” for how much time I had to remove my name from the November 8th ballot. “You have 4 days left to remove your name from the ballot” “You have 2 days left to remove your name from the ballot” “You have 3 more hours to remove your name from the ballot” When I refused to do so, they responded by paying for a "push" poll result -to manipulate the voters into believing I did not have a viable chance of winning. How do I know it was fake? Because they accidentally sent one to me. If the person taking the poll said they were voting for me, they would receive an instant message that said “I’m sorry, you no longer qualify to take this poll”. Soon after that, Hofmeister’s campaign released the poll results stating that I had less than a 4% chance of winning. Once their poll was released to the public, they used it to convince the media to not cover any aspect of my campaign! And yes, the media has wholly capitulated (I suspect because of the millions of ad buys spent by the Dems). Not one political show invited me to speak (radio or tv)-despite my campaign reaching out to every single one of them. In fact, 3 news crews came to our campaign office and interviewed me and not 1 of them made the air. Soon after that, ANOTHER fake poll was released stating that Hofmeister was tied with Stitt. This "push" poll only asked certain Republicans and Democrats "who they were most likely to vote for between Hofmeister and Stitt" (only 2 candidates on the poll). However, they released the poll results with all FOUR gubernatorial candidates listed And said “According to our poll Yen and Bruno have 0% chance of winning”. THIS poll was used as the excuse to have me un-invited to the gubernatorial debate. After this incident we ended up having our own independent poll done with 500 random voters all over the state. That poll result showed Stitt was at 36% and Hofmeister and I were basically tied (with 7% undecided). We contacted a handful of reporters to see if they would show these new poll results. Of course, no one would! However, interestingly, one of the reporters responded to us and said “we know all of the polls released have been fabricated and we are no longer discussing any of them”. It truly has been just an unbelievable experience Watching the Democrats getting away with this And the frustration for us seeing everyone in the media capitulate to these voter schemes. VOTERS OF OKLAHOMA: What you put up with you’ll end up with! If we continue to allow the Democrats (and the media) to get away with these voter fraud schemes -what do you think is going to happen the next time an Independent wants to run (for any office?) 115 years of Democrats and Republicans controlling state government, and the 2 party system is failing and more corrupt than ever! After 115 years of their control, we remain in the bottom of every category that matters to us all. IT IS TIME FOR NEW LEADERSHIP IN OKLAHOMA. Folks, after all of this-I'm still here and my campaign is still going strong! What I need from each and everyone of you is to please share with all of your friends and family this one undeniable fact! THIS IS THE VERY FIRST ELECTION IN OKLAHOMA WHERE WE HAVE A CHANCE OF ELECTING AN INDEPENDENT GOVERNOR. THEY ARE DOING EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO ENSURE THAT THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN- But the only thing that matters on November 8th is YOU- and your vote! Please help me put an end to this political chaos in this state! PLEASE vote for me for Governor on November 8th! I only need 420,000 votes to win this election! And we can easily to that together!! #VoteIndependent #VoteForChange www.Yen4Gov.com

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Performance proxies

Overall score47.7/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.47.8 · 80.0 · 3.6 · 59.2
Spend rangeUSD 4,000–4,499
Impressions125,000 – 149,999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 30.91
Est. audience size
Days live14 (2022-10-24 → 2022-11-07)
Created2022-10-24
Creative variants1 body · 0 headline
Platformsfacebook
Languagesen
CandidateOK — Ervin Yen
Surfaced by“senate:Ervin Yen”

🧠 AI analysis

Issuedemocracy elections
Framingattack opponent
Message typepersuasion
Emotional appealanger
Production tierdiy amateur
Who picturednone
Symbolsnone
Call to actionnone
Standout elementFacebook content-removed placeholder replacing the actual ad image, exposing the ad's controversial nature
TacticThe ad leverages a voter fraud and political intimidation narrative to attack opponent Hofmeister by alleging her campaign pressured Yen to drop out, using first-person grievance storytelling to build credibility and urgency among skeptical Republican primary voters.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

Oklahoma98.9%
Texas1.1%
Kansas0.0%
Arkansas0.0%
Missouri0.0%
California0.0%
Unknown0.0%

Who saw it (delivery)

18-24 · unknown 0.0%
25-34 · male 3.4%
55-64 · unknown 0.1%
35-44 · female 3.1%
25-34 · female 2.5%
65+ · female 32.3%
55-64 · male 10.7%
65+ · male 19.6%
35-44 · male 4.1%
35-44 · unknown 0.1%
55-64 · female 11.9%
45-54 · female 4.8%
45-54 · male 5.1%
18-24 · male 1.0%
25-34 · unknown 0.1%
18-24 · female 0.8%
45-54 · unknown 0.1%
65+ · unknown 0.3%

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