Posted on 11/05/2008 3:15:23 PM PST by Chet 99
Oregon Constitution Party Probably Tips U.S. Senate Race
November 5th, 2008
Only three candidates were on the ballot for the Oregon U.S. Senate race, nominees of the Democratic, Republican, and Constitution Party. It appears likely that the Constitution Party tipped the outcome in this race. Although the votes counted (as of 2:30 pm Pacific time) show Gordon Smith (Republican) leading, the vast bulk of uncounted votes are from Multnomah County, which includes Portland and is very Democratic-leaning. The results now are Smith 663,126; Jeff Merkley (Dem.) 658,409; David Brownlow (Constitution) 75,968. Over 190,000 votes remain to be counted from Multnomah County.
It was 190,000 uncounted this morning, 6 hours ago. I like to think they can count ballots quicker than that.
Wow, who woulda thought that there were 76k conservatives in Oregon?
You people are freaking misguided. Smith will jump at any request by Lord OBAMA and cross over anyway. We have no stake in this race.
I think the green and libertarian candidates cost us a good conservative representative here in michigan’s 7th district. He lost by 2% and the greens and libertarians took 3% between them.
Give 'em a break! They're manufacturing votes as fast as they can!!!
“times like this” seem to occur every two years. When elected members of the GOP abandon Republican principles I feel free to abandon them. They can make the electoral calculation from there.
Ok, from the Oregon Sec State website, Smith is up 4,952 votes with 1,394,948 votes counted. Now there was only 1,441,100 votes cast for President in Oregon. That means there’s maybe 46,152 ballots left to count. Not 190,000 from left leaning Multnomah county.
You’d rather a guy with a 70 rating from the American Conservative Union be dumped for someone will net a 0.
Unbelievable.
You are not understanding the principle. We will have more than 40 one way or another. It is more important to have a strong mass of TRUE CONSERVATIVES than ever! Screw these half baked pussies!
Why do you assume that Greens and Libertarians would/should have voted for Walberg? Though I hate to lose anyone who voted against the bailout.
Gordon Smith is your typical milquetoast RINO. If I lived in OR, I'd have voted 3rd party too, and washed my vote down with a famous Portland microbrew.
Cost you? You have it exactly backwards. Republicans need to EARN the votes of the citizens. You want libertarian votes? Great go get them with policies that libertarians like. For instance, actually making the US government smaller, and I don’t mean just giving it lip service. The Republicans had the Presidency and both houses of Congress. What did they accomplish? Yeah, we went to war in the Middle East, and we lowered taxes (temporarily iirc). Did we reduce federal regulations? No. Did we balance the budget? No. Did we repeal unconstitutional legislation (e.g. GCA 68)? No. Did we close the border? No. Not a great record is it? So why would any self-respecting green or libertarian want to vote for our guys?
I don’t know that they would have voted for him. Unfortunately he was one of the congressmen that the GOP considered a lost cause. finishing only 2% down doesn’t sound like a lost cause to me. They should have given them their support.
The Democrat who won, promises lots of pork and taxes which would have driven lots of libertarians to Walberg.
I think that the same thing may have happened at the presidential level in North Carolina: I think that Barr + McCain might top Obama.
You don’t appear to know anything about Tim Walberg. I suggest you study up before bashing him.
You apparently can’t read english.
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