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Reviews are rolling in for Ron Wyden's ad in support of Jeff Merkley for U.S. Senate At Talking Points Memo, Eric Kleefeld notes the symbolic importance of the Wyden ad: Wyden's involvement in an ad for Merkley is a big deal for two reasons: One, he is quite popular and could possibly be a Senator-For-Life barring some unforeseen scandal. And second, Wyden and Smith were very friendly in years...
Tonight, Jeff Merkley and Gordon Smith will face off in their only statewide televised debate. Watch the debate at 7 p.m. on KGW - or watch it streaming online at the Oregonian. And once again, we'll be live-blogging here at BlueOregon. As the two candidates finally get a chance to go head-to-head, Senator Ron Wyden has placed his marker down in a new television ad that sweeps aside all the...
Cruising around the net, I came across a bunch of reactions to the debate tonight between Gordon Smith and Jeff Merkley -- in particular to the hot exchange they had over the Bush tax cuts and Smith's support for big corporations. Randy Stapilus at the Ridenbaugh Press introduces us to the moment of high drama in the debate: As the topic morphed into the national debate and the bailout, Merkley...
The Democratic Party of Oregon is demanding that Gordon Smith release the public records of his Oregon travel. It seems that the Smith campaign told the Oregonian's JeffMapes that he's visited "more than 20 counties in each of the last three years" - while the DPO's accounting shows a much smaller number of visits. (By way of comparison, Ron Wyden's listing of town hall meetings is entirely...
... make of one of McCain's most stalwart supporters? It's a story first reported by the Oregonian's JeffMapes (on his blog, back in April), and covered here at BlueOregon. In 1993, John McCain was the keynote speaker at a banquet for the anti-gay hate group, the Oregon Citizens...
