Election 2010

Ah, yes, a dispatch from the alternate reality of Roseburg, where a small town paper struggled with an election night print deadline. Thanks to Roseburg native Cody for sending this in!

Bob Stacey: Probably not President. Okay, political nerds, there’s one local race left undecided so it’s time to whip out the calculators. The Metro President helps set the region’s land use policy and has a large hand in figuring out how the region can grow in a smart way. Bob Stacey and Tom Hughes are […]

John Kitzhaber gave a blink-and-you-missed-it victory speech this morning from Tanner Springs Park in the Pearl, thanking his supporters and uttering some bipartisan remarks in a speech that clocked in at under four minutes. I counted 10 small, adorable dogs (see one at right) wandering through the crowd during the talk, as Pearl-dwellers out for […]

Portland Citysearch At El Ranchito: Concession speeches and salsa. Faced with the mathematical certainty of a slender defeat—but likely not slender enough to trigger a recount—Republican Chris Dudley has pulled the plug on his oh-so-close bid to serve as Oregon’s next governor. The Oregonian‘s Harry Esteve caught up with Duds in his hometown of Lake […]

You know, I’m actually more excited that Chris Dudley isn’t the governor than that John Kitzhaber is. To psyche myself up for the next four years, I put together this little treasury of John Kitzhaber looking badass. The proper soundtrack for these photos is a patriotic song by National Whistling Champion Chris Ullman: John Kitzhaber, […]

That John Kitzhaber is going to win this race. From FOX 12‘s Twitter feed: And the Oregonian homepage is blaring: Kitz is trailing by only 5,454 votes with 14 percent of Multnomah County ballots and 22 percent of Lane County ballots still waiting to be counted. Anyone want to burst our optimistic bubble? UPDATE: I […]

And they call her a “teen activist.” Just listen to her: “I did not send in my absentee ballots to Alaska. I’m going to be in trouble. Sorry, mom!” Ooooooooo, her mom is going to ground her for sure! And somehow home-girl keeps making the cut on Dancing With the Stars, which is kind of […]

This is the best news I’ve heard all day, guys: Denver voters have rejected an initiative that would have established a commission to track alien movements. Colorado’s Initiative 300 asked voters to “adopt an initiated ordinance to require the creation of an extraterrestrial affairs commission to help ensure the health, safety and cultural awareness of […]

Back to business as usual! Trailing by a steady 5,000 votes, the city of Portland voter owned elections campaign has conceded. This means we’re back to where we were in 2005, before then-City Commissioner Eric Sten pushed through campaign finance reform that allows candidates for city council and mayor to gather 1,000-1,500 $5 contributions to […]

This wait for election results is excruciating. The news changes by the hour and, so far, the news is mostly bad. As of 11:42:30 am, 92 percent of votes have been counted and Dudley leads Kitz by 15,411 votes. BUT because voters in Multnomah County are slackers who turn in their ballots at the deadline, […]