The Multnomah County Library is claiming a victory for Measure 26-114, the ballot initiative that would make it easier for the county commission to create a special tax district to pay for the library. After early results, the measure was up by a comfortable 43 points. Several other county measures appeared to be sailing to […]
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At Bob Stacey’s Party: Bikes, Beer, Mild Depression
I’m sitting here in the dark at Rontoms on East Burnside, watching the election returns on the big screen with Metro President candidate Bob Stacey and a solid roomful of progressive folk, including several Bicycle Transportation Alliance staffers and a man wearing head to toe red, white and blue stripes (photos below the cut, obvs). […]
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No Collymore For Portland
Kathy Couch (left), campaign manager, and Karol Collymore. Things have taken a turn for the worse at Karol Collymore’s Bar Bar celebration on N. Mississippi… Campaign coordinators just announced that tonight, unfortunately, is not Collymore’s election night, despite her enthusiastic base. “No sad faces!” were the first words out of Collymore’s mouth after the announcement. […]
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How the State Ballot Measures are Faring
The state results continue to tell a different story than the results in Multnomah County. According to Oregon’s site, as of about 8:15, voters are saying yes to Kevin Mannix’s Measure 73, the mandatory minimum sentence initiative, but rejecting forcefully Measure 74, the medicinal marijuana dispensary initiative. The opposite is true in Multnomah County, with […]
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EARLY RETURNS: Kitzhaber Jumps to Big Lead in Multnomah County
The ballroom at the Portland Hilton erupted into cheers just after 8 pm, after early results displayed on several TV screens showed Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber out to a big lead over his Republican challenger Chris Dudley. But the official state election results tell a different story. Dudley was out to a slight lead […]
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Christine O’Donnell’s Concession Spell… I Mean SPEECH! SPEECH!
Christine O’Donnell—Delaware Senate Wannabe/Tea Party Candidate/Teenage Witch/Masturbation Opponent—went down in flames tonight. Here is her concession speech (which will probably be auto-tuned by the a.m.). She once famously said, “I am you.” Tonight I agree, because so far, I kinda feel like a loser. Rest in uncomfortable peace, Christine.
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Angry, Angry Voters: Who Do You Blame?
From NYT’s The Caucus: In interviews as they walked out of the polls, 37 percent of voters said that one reason for their vote was to express opposition to Mr. Obama. That is 13 percent higher than the number who said their vote was an expression of support for the president. And as noted by […]
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The Big Map of Electoral Anger
From NYT’s Media Decoder: John King on CNN showed a map based on Twitter feeds that he said depressed him, as someone who has covered politics for years. All but two states were filled in orange — indicating the 48 states where a majority of people said they had voted against a candidate, not for […]
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NBC Calls House for Republicans; Senate for the Dems
From SF Gate: NBC just called the House for Republicans, by a wide margin. With Joe Manchin’s win in West Virginia, the network is calling the Senate for Democrats. Fox News has joined in the call, predicting a bigger GOP pickup than the 54-seat landslide in 1994. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be replaced by […]
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More National Results: GOP Gains Ground
Here’s the latest from the national scene: • The AP projects that Andrew Cuomo will be the next governor of New York, kicking the homophobic ass of that dickhead Rep. Carl Paladino. Sorry! • Georgia chimes in with a big win for Republicans in the Senate: Johnny Isakson beats Dem Michael Thurmond by a whopping […]
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In the Trenches: How Last-Minute Portlanders Are Voting
This is Jill Schwenke. Over at Multnomah County Elections headquarters in SE, I spoke to a few lovely Oregonians who were standing in line waiting to cast their ballot. In thirty minutes, despite speaking to 14 voters, I could not find a single person voting for Chris Dudley. What the hell, Portland? Don’t you know […]
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Early National Results: Tea Party Coming on Strong!
Early election results are coming in from the East Coast, with a not-so-shocking win for the Tea Party in Kentucky. Here’s what we got so far: • In the Senate race, Tea Partier Rand Paul beats Democrat Jack Conway 53% to 47% in Kentucky. • In Florida, Tea Party candidate Marco Rubio slams the competition, […]