Oregon - OFFICIAL rumors and results thread

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The Oregon numbers should be right at 8PM PST. They're already counting them.

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Quicker results, pretty maps, more offices: http://www.oregonlive.com/special/index.ssf/2008/05/presidential_results.html

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The alleged Republican cokehead is winning OR-05.

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Oh and hookhand is down by 4 in the Senate primary.

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Shrink with the remaining counties then widen as the late votes come in.

Why would the late vote favor Obama? Doesn't Clinton usually win late deciders?

Also, it's pretty interesting that Obama did better among union members than he among non-union members. I guess union endorsements do work.

Late voters in vote-by-mail = Lazy voters

Lazy voters = Young voters

Young voters = Obama voters

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It's also apparently 246% counted, which is damn thorough

Teehee

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Oddly, there is no Republican nominee for AG in Oregon, so the winner of the Democratic primary automatically wins in November.

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Oh and God bless the Republicans of the Fifth District of Oregon and their cokehead nominee.

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Oh and God bless the Republicans of the Fifth District of Oregon and their cokehead nominee.

That is Darlene Hooley's district? Is the Dem nominee a good candidate?

Yea, solid moderate State Senator.

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Over on the GOP side, in what I think is probably a very weird typo, Hood River is 48% Paul, 36% McCain and 15% write-in.

It is Hood River...

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Over on the GOP side, in what I think is probably a very weird typo, Hood River is 48% Paul, 36% McCain and 15% write-in.

It is Hood River...

Proximity to windsurfing clearly increases love for the gold standard

It's opposite Skamania, isn't it? That county which voted for "Uncommitted" in Washington?

Aye. They must have dumped some Hanford waste in the Columbia back in the 50's around there.

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and (along with neighboring Klickitat) once passed two obviously contradictory initiatives in the same year.

I-330 and I-336?

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and (along with neighboring Klickitat) once passed two obviously contradictory initiatives in the same year.

I-330 and I-336?

Yeah.

I'm not sure if they were legally contradictory (I think that was debated) but in spirit they definitely were, from what I recall.

Yea, one was just the trial lawyers writing the opposite of whatever the doctors wanted. Or visa versa, I can't remember who started it.

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The Senate primary has been called for Merkley

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The Senate primary has been called for Merkley

Sucks.

Merkley's probably the stronger candidate in the general though, so I'm not too upset.

Novick has connections to the State Legislature, he would do great there. Hopefully he stays involved in some sense.

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Something weird happened on the Oregonian's site... they were up to 80% reporting, then went down to 70%, and are now back up to 72%

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And now they have Gilliam reporting... with 116% in!

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The fall in ballots counted is because Washington County is listed as 0% reporting for some reason, btw.

Ah. Odd.

Does anyone have final delegate estimates in Oregon?