by Spider » Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:56 pm
Interesting result in Oregon's 2nd district...a lesbian Democratic liberal managed to pull 40% of the vote against a well-loved incumbent Republican...in a district entirely populated by cattle ranchers and alfalfa farmers and various Bubbas and Cletuses who used to literally burn Obama in effigy. (I went to high school there. I know how it is.) I thought McKleod-Skinner would have been completely flattened....but she pulled a respectable turnout. Would have been unthinkable in the past that she would do this well in that district.
And every ballot measure broke my way. Even the Governor race turned out not as close as predicted. And our governor is a complete moron who only got into office in the first place because her predecessor, also a Dem, resigned in shame and scandal while she happened to be SecState. If not for trump, I am convinced she would have lost.
A decent midterm election. Not the blowout people were fantasizing about, but solid progress.