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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 ...
Vote fraud needs to be at the top of the GOP "to do" list, along with reversing illegal immigration.
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Welcome to Oregon!!
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
Stayed “blue” because it is full of Pinkos.
Okaaaaaay...
-PJ
Sadly, yes. Thousands of Asian and Indian immigrant engineers to Washington County (seat of Intel HQ) are registered Democrats...
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.
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.
Some of us like that gray sky. It matches our gray personalities.
are they citizens?
Bingo!
Remember the "Don't Californicate Oregon" bumper stickers of the early seventies?
The federal government needs to get its boot off the forestry industry some. That should help the state out.
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....
Oregon is the new USSR with Portland as Moscow.
So Portlandia is more a documentary than a satire?
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.
Oregon is so far less than Texas, but then what state isn’t.
Oregon,
Where EVERYBODY votes by mail.
I wonder if that has anything to do with it?
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