Election 2008

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 […]

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

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.

Ah, so this is what patriotism feels like.

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

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