By Chris Casteel — Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — For many, it appeared that James Lankford had come out of nowhere when he laid waste to a field of Republican primary candidates in 2010 and claimed Oklahoma City’s congressional seat.
He looked like Opie — but spoke with a mismatched deep bass voice — and had no political experience or money to pay consultants.
But the truth was that a lot of people knew exactly where Lankford had come from, and it wasn’t nowhere.
