BTW, the "strip" is nearly 120 miles long (between eugene and pdx) but inbetween, in the heart of the valley, are some very conservative outposts that would make excelent "forts" from shich to attack the hostiles....My fiance and I are on a five year plan to land ourselves in the Forest Grove area. But, to be truely effective at turning the state, we would want to plant about 10000 conservatives in the basement of Powell's bookstore.
I don't worry about the dirt eating hippies out in Elmira, Blachely, Poodle Creek areas. They don't vote. It's the Verna Katz/Karl Marx NAMBLA crowd around 11th and Everett(?) that need to be neutralized.
I say we take the Bridgeport Brewery over as a staging area.
It might take a few more than 10K to turn that cesspool around.
Hell, there are close to 10K out in the streets every other day chanting peace songs and praising Gaia (sp?) and the other earth gods.
I think the propper approach is to surround and set a seige upon porlandistan, or push them up into Washington.
EBUCK