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A little blue island that withstood the red electoral wave
The Oregonian ^ | Nov 08, 2014 | David Sarasohn

Posted on 11/09/2014 5:41:43 PM PST by nwrep

The red tide that swept across the entire country Tuesday broke at the borders of Oregon. On the island, no Democratic incumbents were defeated, Sen. Jeff Merkley and Gov. John Kitzhaber and four Democratic congressmen were handily re-elected, and the party picked up one seat in the state House and at least one in the state Senate. It wasn't a huge legislative increase – except that virtually everyplace else, Democratic legislators (and majorities) were being hauled out to the recycling bin.

More important, Oregon's Democratic electorate is not the same as in many states; it's one of the few places where Obama has twice won among white voters. What's changed Oregon from the Republican dominance of two and three decades ago to its current oceanic blueness is different from the coalition the Democrats are trying to put together in North Carolina.

(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...


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To: nwrep
Not coincidentally, Oregon has voting by mail.

Vote fraud needs to be at the top of the GOP "to do" list, along with reversing illegal immigration.

21 posted on 11/09/2014 6:07:45 PM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: nwrep; goodnesswins; PROCON; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; ...

If you would like more information about what's happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me.

I lost my Oregon list when my computer crashed recently, so please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.

22 posted on 11/09/2014 6:08:17 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: nwrep
Oregonians are 98 percent stoned leftists.

Welcome to Oregon!!

23 posted on 11/09/2014 6:15:55 PM PST by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: Salvation

The Oregon GOP is an absolute mess. A bunch of old boys who will never change their way of thinking. I left the GOP after this election.

Pray America wakes up


24 posted on 11/09/2014 6:18:35 PM PST by bray (Palin/Perry)
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To: nwrep

Stayed “blue” because it is full of Pinkos.


25 posted on 11/09/2014 6:18:36 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: nwrep
So, Oregon spent over $300 million on their Obamacare website that they eventually shut down as a total failure this year, and yet the people still sent the Democrats back?

Okaaaaaay...

-PJ

26 posted on 11/09/2014 6:21:29 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: 2banana
Because Engineers are not conservative and can't do math...?

Sadly, yes. Thousands of Asian and Indian immigrant engineers to Washington County (seat of Intel HQ) are registered Democrats...

27 posted on 11/09/2014 6:21:37 PM PST by nwrep
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To: nwrep

Oregon is a beautiful state from coast to the east side of the state. They are very environmentally conscious and as a visitor....have to say I enjoy their hospitality and wide open spaces.

When I retire I will probably retire in southern Oregon along the coast. As far south as I can get w/o being in California.

BUT...that assumes that Oregon doesn’t tank and begin over taxing every freaking thing like they do in California. Right now the cost of living in Oregon is less or comparable to Western Washington state (where I currently live).

I can’t imagine that Oregon is any more hippy dippy than WA state. I would stay in WA...but I’ve got to get to a place that has less gray days. It’s not even about the rain...it’s about the grayness in the sky for weeks on end that just wears a soul down.


28 posted on 11/09/2014 6:26:14 PM PST by conservaKate ( I grow weary of the goobers in the Republican party. (thanks Chris))
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To: nwrep

There’s a glaring big blue ‘island’ here in Minnesota. I’d gladly ship all of the idiots here in MN to Oregon. We’d have an 0bola quarantine of sorts.


29 posted on 11/09/2014 6:27:51 PM PST by mplsconservative
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To: conservaKate
Oregon has a high state income tax. Washington has none.

Some of us like that gray sky. It matches our gray personalities.

30 posted on 11/09/2014 6:28:58 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: nwrep

are they citizens?


31 posted on 11/09/2014 6:30:11 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: lonevoice
That's easy: proximity to California.

Bingo!

Remember the "Don't Californicate Oregon" bumper stickers of the early seventies?

32 posted on 11/09/2014 6:39:34 PM PST by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: USNBandit

The federal government needs to get its boot off the forestry industry some. That should help the state out.


33 posted on 11/09/2014 6:44:21 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: Publius

Yes Oregon does have state income tax...but WA has high sales taxes on almost everything but food. I think it would be close to a push in terms of taxes when the current sales taxes are close to 10%.

But then...I haven’t checked Oregon’s tax structure.

And I do get where some folks ‘like’ the gray. I’m just done w/ gray skies that go on forever and ever. I kind of like that unrelenting sunshine you get in say Colorado. I’m just not willing to move that far from the coastline. (I also found the drivers in Colorado to be freaking nuts on the freeways).

Different strokes....


34 posted on 11/09/2014 6:45:38 PM PST by conservaKate ( I grow weary of the goobers in the Republican party. (thanks Chris))
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To: nwrep

Oregon is the new USSR with Portland as Moscow.


35 posted on 11/09/2014 6:47:52 PM PST by ohioman
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To: garjog
"stoned leftists"

So Portlandia is more a documentary than a satire?

36 posted on 11/09/2014 6:52:18 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: mplsconservative

I went to the National Journal website and blew up that map. It’s interesting that although most of Minnesota and the Twin Cities was solid blue, most of the Twin Cities suburbs were red. I thought even the burbs around Minny-St.Paul were blue.


37 posted on 11/09/2014 6:55:29 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: re_nortex

Oregon is so far less than Texas, but then what state isn’t.


38 posted on 11/09/2014 6:56:10 PM PST by ansel12 (The churlish behavior of Obama over the next two years is going to be spellbinding.)
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To: nwrep
Maybe they should consider secession.
39 posted on 11/09/2014 6:58:19 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: nwrep

Oregon,
Where EVERYBODY votes by mail.
I wonder if that has anything to do with it?


40 posted on 11/09/2014 7:04:13 PM PST by XHogPilot
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