There goes Senator Gordon Smith of Oregon. I had high hopes when I woke up this morning and saw that he was still ahead by a few thousand votes. Oregon is a weird state, though. All their voting is done by mail, don'tcha know. And it seems like the letters from Portland were running a little late.
Oh, well. That pretty much solidifies the Democratic stranglehold on the West Coast. And just think! Twenty years ago, California had a Republican governor and senator; Oregon had two Republican senators; and Washington had a Republican senator.
If the GOP ever wants to return to viability, I think it needs to start out west. Look at what the Democrats did in Colorado. If the Republicans could pull of something similar in Oregon or Washington, we'd be well on our way back to being a national party.
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