Amy J. Ruiz

Standing outside his modest SE Portland ranch home with his wife Mary Sorteberg, Jeff Merkley was all smiles, but declined to claim victory in his Senate race against incumbent Gordon Smith. (Merkley apparently hasn’t seen MY projections, which currently put him at a roughly 50K vote victory when this whole thing is over). UPDATE at […]

Long story short: I’m predicting a win for Jeff Merkley, based on highly scientific number crunching. Bear with me for a minute, while I walk you through my geekdom. County by county, I calculated the number of outstanding ballots (the total number of ballots received, as reported to the state, minus the ones already counted, […]

Hee! From Newsweek‘s reporters embedded with the campaign, who are sworn to secrecy until after the election: NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin’s shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain’s top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide […]

Folks, the dance party is in full swing here at Doug Fir. We’re done blogging for the night. It’s time for us to get drunk (and, um, send the paper to the printer with some election coverage!). We leave you with this, in honor of the impending Obama Baby Boom. From the Doug Fir green […]

“It’s like everybody in America got married to each other all at once.” -via text from Ned Lannamann

“Yaaaaa! progress USA!!!!” -via txt from Catherine

The scene when I got back to Doug Fir, at 8:30:

“Change at last, change at last!” -txt from Amy

“They shut down U street because people have flooded the streets in celebration! It’s crazier than new years on happy crack! Every street is insane!” -via text from my friend Shawn.

“HELLS YEAH. PROGRESSIVE RULE, MOTHERFUCKER.” -txt from Roland