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Progressive Values (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Republican Senator Gordon Smith from Oregon is involved in a tough battle for re-election in 2008. And after looking at the big win by Obama in the Oregon primary by nearly 20 points over Hillary Clinton, as well as polls that put Obama well ahead of McCain to carry the state in November, Smith has decided to run TV ads that link him to a bipartisan relationship with Barack Obama on energy policy in...
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Preemptive Karma (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Now that the Oregon Primary is over I'm curious as to how many of the record surge of new Dem registrants plan to remain Democrats? Hotly contested Dem presidential and Senate contests provided lots... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Interesting Times (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
As an addendum to this I'd like to add my personal reflection on the recent Oregon primary.I voted for Obama. So did my wife. But it wasn't until we received our ballots (Oregon is vote by mail) and sat down to fill them out that the magnitude of what was happening struck me. For the first time in both of our lives , we were voting for a presidential candidate that was NOT a white male. For the
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anonymous (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
The AP reports ... PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gail Rasmussen has become Oregon's third Democratic superdelegate in two days to come out in support of Barack Obama. Obama beat Hillary Rodham Clinton by 18 percentage points in last week's Oregon primary, and the Democratic National Committee member cited that win in explaining why she will vote for the Illinois senator at the party's national convention...
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BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
In today's Oregonian, Oregon's Democratic Party Chair Meredith Wood Smith announced she would be backing Barack Obama for President. Why Obama? Because he received the majority of the votes in the Oregon primary, and he demonstrates the leadership needed to get us out of Iraq, restore our economy, begin the tough job of providing health care for all Americans and, most of all, heal the divisions in...
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BloggerRadio.com (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
I spent a few weeks leading up to the Oregon primary staffing a call center for 3 and 4 hours per evening, calling on registered voters. Out of literally thousands of calls, a few were truly memorable conversations. I characterize those memorable ones as running about 2-out-of-3...
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BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
On ABC's This Week, commentators George Will and George Stephanopoulous took note of the big vote margin for former Congressman and Libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul in Oregon's GOP primary. WILL: ...the Ron Paul vote, which I'll point out was 15% of the Oregon primary. STEPHANOPOULOUS: Does that mean - well that would be the Bob Barr vote, probably, in the general election. On Sunday, former...
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BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Forty years ago this week — May 21, a week before the 1968 Oregon primary — Bobby Kennedy addressed a group of journalists in San Francisco. The following excerpts from that address should sound familiar. Also familiar is this from the editors of this collection of speeches: "Kennedy was, in David Halberstam's phrase, a transitional figure in a transitional year." It is clear by now that 1968 will...
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Preemptive Karma (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
The "Write Idea" blog has a very provocative post up suggesting among other things that the Dem establishment won in the recent Oregon Primary. The Democratic establishment: Democrat establishment... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) on Tuesday won the Oregon primary with 58% of the vote, compared with 42% for opponent Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), with 88% of precincts reporting, CNN.com reports. In the Kentucky primary, Clinton won with 65% of the vote, compared with 30% for Obama (CNN.com, 5/21).
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
May 21 - One day after winning the Oregon primary, Democrat Barack Obama was in Tampa, Florida Wednesday, a move that suggests the Senator's campaign is now shifting toward the general election.
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
On Wednesday's CBS "Early Show" co-host Julie Chen took the relatively obscure milestone of Obama winning Tuesday's Oregon primary, thereby getting the majority of pledged delegates, and declared that it was: "An enormous day in American politics as Barack Obama inches closer to his dream." In a later report, correspondent Dean Reynolds also spoke of Obama closing in on the nomination: "...it was...
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VH1 (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Death Cab for Cutie guitarist and Obama supporter Chris Walla analyzes the results of the Oregon primary, and laments the fact that some voters ignored the state and local races on the ballot.
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Progressive Values (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
A Progressive Values reader Emailed me a link to this funny commentary on the ongoing problems of GOP 5th Congressional District winner, Mike Erickson, and I'm sharing this illustration here with other readers under the broadly accepted terms of fair use of an illustration since it is what is under discussion here. I don't know where this illustration originated, but it does make a serious commentary...
