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It's going to be painful. Very PAINFUL when the beloved Obamassiah LOSES this November. Look at the picture above of Barack Obama in Oregon. The DUmmies are having a major Obamasm over that photo as you can see in this THREAD joyously titled, "75,000 attend Obama rally in Portland!" So many people in the liberal Northwest show up to see Obama so there is NO WAY Obama can lose. Right? (Wright?) Wrong! Obama will LOSE in November despite the fact the Democrats in general will probably gain House and Senate seats. That latter fact will in no way alleviate...

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. "That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

Note to Obama: Your mask is slipping. Barack Obama has tried his best to conceal the fact that underneath all the soothing rhetoric about "change" and being a new kind of politican, he is nothing but a 1960's style liberal with some incredibly naive views about American foreign policy. Yesterday in front of 75,000 adoring fans, Obama really let his inner liberal take over and made one of the most outrageously stupid comment of the campaign to date. If the GOP were smart, they would take this comment and run it from now until November. Jennifer Rubin at Commentary: This...

Sen. Barack Obama is dwarfed by the crowd on the banks of the Willamette River in Portland, Ore., Sunday. It was Barack Obama's wow moment. The Democratic presidential hopeful spoke to the biggest crowd of his campaign - an estimated 65,000 people packed into a riverside park for an afternoon rally at a sun-splashed scene on the banks of the Willamette River in Portland, Ore. Another 15,000 were left outside, fire officials estimated. "Wow, wow, wow," Obama said as he surveyed the audience. "We have had a lot of rallies. This is the most spectacular setting, the most spectacular...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Sen. Barack Obama has seen his share of large crowds over the last 15 months, but his campaign said they have not approached the numbers gathered along the waterfront here right now. The campaign, citing figures from Duane Bray, battalion chief of Portland Fire & Rescue, estimated that 75,000 people are watching him speak. The scene suggests this is not an exaggeration.

Record Obama Crowd, the Size of a City By Matthew Mosk PORTLAND, Ore. -- Sen. Barack Obama has seen his share of large crowds over the last 15 months, but his campaign said they have not approached the numbers gathered along the waterfront here right now. The campaign, citing figures from Duane Bray, battalion chief of Portland Fire & Rescue, estimated that 75,000 people are watching him speak. The scene suggests this is not an exaggeration. The sea of heads stretches for half a mile along the grassy embankment, while others watch from kayaks and power boats bobbing on the...

Democrat Barack Obama told seniors Sunday that Republican John McCain would threaten the Social Security that they and millions like them depend on because he supports privatizing the program.Obama turned to a bedrock, pocketbook issue as he spoke to about 130 people at an assisted living facility and sought to tie the GOP's presidential nominee-in-waiting to an unpopular President Bush on an issue that motivates seniors."Let me be clear, privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it, it's a bad idea today," Obama said. "That's why I stood up against this plan in the Senate...

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. From this story: WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama set his sights on November's general election Saturday as he campaigned in Oregon, where he hopes to declare victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.Obama has said Tuesday's primaries in Oregon and Kentucky could mark the end of his drawn-out battle with rival Hillary Clinton, and his campaign pressed home that message by...

Barack Obama's campaign hopes it will. They're putting out the word that they hope to announce on the night of May 20, after the results come in from the Kentucky and Oregon primaries, that their candidate has the 2,025 votes needed for the Democratic nomination. That would mean that the nomination would be settled before the May 31 rules committee meeting on the status of the disqualified Michigan and Florida delegations; this would deprive Clinton of a grievance but would not deprive Obama of the nomination. The June 1 primary in Puerto Rico, in which it seems possible Clinton could...

With mail ballots due Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama returns to Oregon this weekend with campaign stops in Roseburg, Portland and Pendleton. The Democrat will appear for a town-hall meeting in Roseburg High School at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. On Sunday, he will hold a 12:30 p.m. rally in Portland's Waterfront Park and a 6:30 p.m. town-hall meeting at the Pendleton Convention Center. Obama's rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, will visit Friday. Full details of her schedule still had not been released Thursday afternoon.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone poll in Oregon shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 52% to 38%. That’s a significant improvement for Obama compared to a month ago when he led the presumptive Republican nominee by six percentage points. In three consecutive Oregon polls, McCain has never received more than 40% support when matched against Obama. In the current poll, McCain attracts just 68% support from Republican voters in the state. Obama leads McCain among voters under 50. With older voters in Oregon, the two candidates are essentially even. Nationally, McCain and Obama remain fairly evenly matched among all voters...

ROSEBURG - Former President Bill Clinton comes to Roseburg Tuesday morning in one of the rare visits of a president in this area. Roseburg High School is gearing up for a visit from the former president, and a rally Tuesday morning at 9:00 o'clock. The former president is trying to rally democrats to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Oregon primary. Roseburg High Vice-Principal Larry Rich said it's a historical event for Roseburg to have a president visit. "We found out this morning that he is coming to R.H.S. so he will be speaking in our gym. Every since we...

....... In Beaverton, outside Portland, where Obama visited a small software firm, employee Jack Randall, a chemist, said he was an independent who had voted for Republicans in the past -- including Bush in 2000 -- but that he would vote for Obama this fall. "He's very personable, intelligent and thoughtful. There was a lot of intensity of data about what he's going to do, it wasn't just the fluff that we've been hearing about," said Randall, 56, whose Republican wife is also backing Obama. For him and his colleagues at the firm, he said, a key issue setting Obama...

DEMOCRATIC White House hopeful Barack Obama said today he could declare victory over Hillary Clinton on May 20, when Kentucky and Oregon may put him over the top in terms of elected delegates. "If at that point we have the majority of pledged delegates, which is possible, then I think we can make a pretty strong claim that we have got the most runs and it's the ninth inning and we have won," he told NBC television, referring to the final inning of a baseball game. "But, you know, I think it is also important for us to, if we...

Now it's Oregon's turn. With the Indiana and North Carolina primaries concluding Tuesday, presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will turn much their attention toward Oregon, allowing the state's more than 870,000 Democrats their moment in the primary spotlight.Oregon is one of only a handful of contests remaining, and is perhaps the most competitive of the states that have yet to vote. Clinton is predicted to prevail in Kentucky, which also votes on May 20, while Obama is expected to win upcoming caucuses in South Dakota and Montana. Most political analysts think Obama has the edge in Oregon, but...

"Here's Chelsea Clinton listening intently last night to her mother debating Barak. And here's Chelsea Clinton hanging out with some 2,000 cross-dressers over the weekend. These shots of the former First Daughter at the 'Red Dress' Party in Portland are burning up the Internet from www.JustOut.com. No word on whether or not Hillary's camp considers this to be a truly 'hairy situation.'" Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9102992554670833423&pr=goog-sl Background and photos: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002759/posts

I was supposed to ask her questions like "where are you most likely to disagree with your mom or your dad?" or "did you ever call your mom at 3 am and how did she react?" But all I could think of was that: "I am...standing in front of Hill and Bill's kid...in a red Mary Kay Cosmetics Collection dress...I'd just bought that day at the Goodwill...how weird is that?" Yes, Chelsea Clinton made it to the infamous "Red Dress" Party. Not to be confused with that other annual "Red Dress" fundraiser, this is the "Red Dress Party," a mondo-alcohol-fueled...

In Eugene, Oregon, Saturday. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, attempted to change the measure by which anyone might assess who criticized the Iraq war first, her or Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, by saying those keeping records should start in January 2005, when Obama joined the Senate. (A measure that conveniently avoids her October 2002 vote to authorize use of force against Iraq at a time that Obama was speaking out against the war.) She claimed that using that measure she criticized the war in Iraq before Obama did. But Clinton's claim was false. Clinton on Saturday told Oregonians, "when Senator Obama...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Matthew Buckingham, a stay-at-home father in Portland's suburbs and lifelong Republican, is fired up about voting for Sen. John McCain in November. But on May 20, the date of Oregon's unexpectedly consequential presidential primary, Buckingham's choice for the primary is still up in the air: Should it be Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, or Sen. Barack Obama? Like nearly 10,000 Oregonians — and thousands more voters in other late-primary states — Buckingham has temporarily switched his party affiliation in order to be able to vote in the red-hot Democratic primary. "The bottom line is, this is the...

MEDFORD, Ore. -- Former President Bill Clinton warmed up Oregon for a future visit from his wife, starting a two-day sweep through the state whose May primary has taken on new significance with the tightness of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. "I think she's the best change-maker I ever knew," Clinton told the crowd of about 2,500 people at North Medford High School. He was to make further appearances Monday in Portland, Salem and Bend. Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign said she is likely to be in Oregon the week of April 6. Clinton noted his wife's work as...

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone poll in Oregon shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 48% to 42%. However, McCain leads Hillary Clinton 46% to 40%. Those results are broadly similar to last month’s poll in Oregon. Last August, McCain also led Clinton by three percentage points. Obama was not included in that round of polling.

It's all but certain that John Kroger or Greg Macpherson will be Oregon's next attorney general. Oregon Democrats will choose between Macpherson, a state legislator and corporate lawyer, and Kroger, a law professor and former prosecutor in the May primary. With no Republican candidate, the winner likely will appear on the November ballot with token opposition, if any.

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., takes a bite of pizza at American Dream Pizza in Corvallis, Ore. (Alex Brandon, Associated Press / March 21, 2008)

Maybe, just maybe, it’s now worth at least asking whether Hillary Clinton might wind up as the Democratic candidate for vice president. When the chatter about a Democratic “dream ticket” began last year, it was easy to dismiss. Either Clinton or Obama would win a clear victory in the primaries and, after what inevitably would be a contentious campaign, each would want as little to do with the other as possible. Clinton, if she emerged victorious, would instead choose some kind of national security graybeard to her political right, a retired general perhaps, or maybe even a Republican. Likewise, Obama...

SALEM — At Barack Obama’s second stop in his Oregon campaign journey, the senator from Illinois opened the town hall-style meeting with his “fierce urgency of now” message.

Earlier this afternoon, Oregon AFSCME voted to endorse Barack Obama for President. Previously, the national AFSCME organization had endorsed Hillary Clinton. Oregon AFSCME becomes the only state organization in the country - other than Illinois AFSCME, in Obama's home state - to break ranks with the national.

Former GOP state chairman Kevin Mannix made it official Thursday, entering the race for the Oregon congressional seat being vacated by Democrat Darlene Hooley. Mannix will have to fight for his party's nomination against Mike Erickson, a wealthy businessman from Lake Oswego who ran against Hooley in 2006. On the Democratic side, a primary contest is set between state Sen. Kurt Schrader and political consultant Steve Marks. Some unions have also been quietly floating the idea of a run by Jim Hill, the former state treasurer who ran for governor in 2006. Mannix represented the city of Salem in the...

These are bleak times for Oregon Republicans. The party that once dominated state politics has fallen into disarray -- its state organization deeply in debt, its membership fractured, its influence at an all-time low. On the eve of the Dorchester Conference, the yearly gathering of Republicans that opens tonight in Seaside, the party that eked out just a single statewide victory since 2000 finds itself in an anxious period of retrenching and soul-searching. "It's a wake-up call," says former state labor commissioner Jack Roberts. "We've been spending so much of our time arguing about who is more Republican, and the...

Turns out, rumors of Kevin Mannix's political demise may have been greatly exaggerated. Less than two years ago, a downcast Mannix said he had no plans to seek public office again after Republican voters rejected his bid for the GOP gubernatorial nomination and chose rival Ron Saxton for the 2006 governor's race. But now he's back in a big way and basking in the spotlight, weighing a possible run for Oregon attorney general or for a congressional seat, while bargaining with state lawmakers over legislation on criminal sentences for drug dealing and property crime. Mannix found himself back in the...

Versus Hillary: 49% McCain 45% Clinton 39% Giuliani 52% Clinton 40% Huckabee 54% Clinton 38% Romney 54% Clinton Versus Obama: 47% McCain 47% Obama 38% Huckabee 55% Obama 35% Giuliani 56% Obama 34% Romney 57% Obama Geography Surveyed: Oregon Data Collected: 01/11/2008 - 01/13/2008 Release Date: 01/14/2008 10:00 AM ET Sponsor: KATU-TV Portland Sample: 544 RVs MoE: ± 4.3%

Versus Hillary: 46% McCain 46% Clinton 42% Giuliani 50% Clinton 42% Huckabee 50% Clinton 40% Romney 51% Clinton Versus Obama: 44% McCain 46% Obama 40% Giuliani 50% Obama 40% Huckabee 51% Obama 38% Romney 50% Obama Geography Surveyed: Oregon Data Collected: 12/13/2007 - 12/15/2007 Release Date: 12/19/2007 11:30 AM ET Sponsor: KATU-TV Portland Sample: 537 RVs MoE: ± 4.3%

As Barack Obama gains on Hillary Rodham Clinton from the left in Iowa, the GOP gains on her from the right nationwide. Hillary’s triangulation scheme looks far less dominating than it did two months ago. She may be on the apex of an isosceles triangle, but the base may be too narrow for her perch to offer much comfort. Survey USA recently polled Oregon, and the results are not what “She Who Demands Media Obedience” would have dialed up. To be challenged in the primaries by a candidate appealing feverishly to the hard core base of her party is no...