Another Interesting and Tight Race, Jeff Merkley in Oregon

My good friend from Oregon, has a post up on Kos about a critical race in Oregon. Jeff Merkley is another true progressive candidate. His current accomplishments are well laid out in the post including these hightlights

Among Merkely’s accomplishments are:
• Creating a ‘Rainy Day’ fund to shield schools and other state services from getting hit in the next recession.
• Increasing educational funding
• Increasing funding for Oregon Universities, Colleges & Community Colleges
• Standing up for consumers by taking on payday and car title lenders who have since dramatically reduced their presence in Oregon.
• Implementing a ban on junk food in Oregon schools (takes affect in ’09)
• Led historic bipartisan ethics reform to ban gifts from lobbyists, close the revolving door for legislators, and restore the independent Ethics Commission.
• Led the charge on passing Oregon’s domestic partnership law & championed a non-discrimination lawensuring that no one in Oregon can lose their home or be fired from their job just because of their sexual orientation.

In summary, he kicked ass as Speaker of the Oregon State House. Imagine how much Oregonians & Americans could accomplish with an actual legislator in the Senate instead of an animated cardboard cutout like Gordon Smith who just wastes oxygen and plays dress-up maverick!

Read the whole thing. Weigh in on this race. We really do have to fight up and down the ticket for every seat we can get. Donna Edwards called on the netroots to send her more progressives in the house and senate. She said it is pretty lonely there right now. We need to get busy.

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Whitey

48%

Of whites 60 and older in Oregon voted for Barack Obama. 51% voted for Clinton, a 3 point spread.

53%

Of whites 45-59 in Oregon voted for Barack Obama.

63%

Of whites 30-44 in Oregon voted for Barack Obama.

71%

Of whites 18-29 in Oregon voted for Barack Obama.
Presumably these are not hard working honkeys.

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Obama-gone 80% reporting

Obama   308,837 58%
Clinton 221,376 42%

In the "under" vote, McCain has collected more votes than Clinton. This has to be one of the first times since the Republican nominee was selected that he has not lost to the Democratic 2nd place finisher. On another note, racist Ron Paul is pulling only 15%.

With this win Senator Obama has won a majority of pledged delegates and is within 64 delegates of securing the democratic nomination.

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Oregon, Hog Butcher to the World, and Gateway to the West

With 62% reporting, it's another shellacking, this time in Hypno-bama's favor.

Obama    265,987 58%
Clinton  192,655 42%

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Rock Star

I guess there was nothing going on in Portland this Sunday.


It reminds me of that story about Howard Dean in Seattle (I think), he starts talking to the gathered crowd of 5,000 or so, until they make it clear that they are the overflow crowd and he was expected on the main stage. The was more than a year before the election in 2004.

People. Want. Change. Now.

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