Sarah Shay Mirk

Alison’s hangover might be disappearing but Jesus Christ, every part of my body still hurts. My eyes are scratchy from days of scrolling through political blogs followed by a night of tears. My legs are stiff thanks to a massive midnight street dance party on SE Morrison. My head… ohhh whiskey and Obama. Mostly, I’ve […]

Multnomah County still has 152,000 votes to count and we’re all on edge to see how that last lode of ballots will tip the razor thin margin in the Merkley-Smith race (as of noon today, Smith is 10,000 votes ahead). In the meantime, most of the local levies are all polling so far ahead that […]

Early results on the mandatory minimums measure that would blow a $2 billion hole in the state budget: Yes Votes 86,359 43.11 percent No Votes 113,957 56.89 percent WTF Oregon? In a sane society, this would have gone down in flames.

The best reason to bike to work ever – Oregon’s new attorney general (the stellar and highly intelligent John Kroger) just promised me, “Tomorrow morning I’m going to stand on the Hawthorne Bridge and thank voters.” Literally.

Jeff Merkley is KICKING ASS in the state senate race, with 60 FUCKING PERCENT of the vote with 200,000 votes counted. Democrat Secretary of State candidate Kate Brown CREAMED Rick Dancer in Multnomah County with 66% of the vote in her favor so far. The final results might be different but what’s that? A marching […]

I’ve voted in Iowa for the last four years and I knew knew KNEW it would come through despite Republican attempts to disenfranchise students. The state was much more politically savvy than you coast bound kids think it would be – I’ll tell you, small farmers know their policy. Voting in Iowa is a wonderful […]

The dimly lit Doug Fir is full of boozing voters and red white and blue balloons – it’s hard to hear CNN over the anxious election gossip of the crowd. Matt Davis is starting out the night of his first presidential election with a patriotic bang:(yes, that’s Sarah Palin and yes, that’s Matt’s sheepish hand […]

No way will Indiana go for Obama. NO WAY! Indiana is full of historic and current strongholds of the KKK – if it went for Obama… wow! That would actually mean something in the world. Check out the current map of the state everyone’s obsessing over:

For those of you worried that long waits at the ballot box will keep people from voting, Portland, at least, seems free and clear. I stopped by the Multnomah County Elections office at 10am and wasn’t surprised to see a line 20 people long wrapping around the inside of the building. But people who stopped […]

Sunrise was just peaking over the top of the industrial district warehouses this morning as Garrett Downen cracked open his first Red Bull. He and 25 other campaigners were standing in the Bus Project parking lot on SE 2nd Ave, dressed in costumes and inking in the last “VOTE” signs with Sharpies. Then someone turned […]

I filled out my ballot as soon as I got it and it was kind of an anti-climax, sitting alone in my kitchen penciling in bubbles I’d decided on long ago. After months of poll watching and blog reading, it felt like, “Finally, I can get this done.” I went through intense election turmoil a […]