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OR-Gov: DGA Says Kitzhaber is Next Governor

by: DavidNYC

Wed Nov 03, 2010 at 8:02 PM EDT


Via an emailed press release (no link as yet), the DGA says that Dem John Kitzhaber will be the next governor of Oregon. They also note that they spent a million bucks on the race. More as we get it.

UPDATE: The Oregonian and local TV news both call the race for Kitz as well.
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I know this is a little off-subject, but I found Sharron Angle's concession speech.
I haven't watched it yet, but apparently it's weird.


Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!
Thanks, Angle, for awakening Democrats in Nevada to re-elect Reid.
And defeating you 50.2%-44.6%!!!!!!!

Going back to Oregon, hooray for Kitz!

Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!

[ Parent ]
Why did she brag that 80% of her donations from out-of-state
That just reinforces her image as being supported by carpetbaggers.

And yes, she certainly knows how to lose!  Haha!

Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!

[ Parent ]
After nearly a year of crazy talk from her, that doesn't even make the Top 10 list of her quotables. (nm)
nm

43, male, Indian-American, Democrat, VA-10
[ Parent ]
Because she's CRAZY!!!
And because all the big players in this state, from the casinos to mining to the unions, all shunned her. And because most regular folks in this state were totally disgusted by her.

Yes, Virginia, there ARE progressives in Nevada!
24, gay male, Democrat, NV-03 (or 04?)
[ Parent ]
How could anyone possibly watch more than two minutes of this?
Ugh. I just want my kids two minutes back.
[ Parent ]
COME ON!


NY-14, DC-AL (college) Distraught Mets fan
[ Parent ]
I love listening to ths and knowing it's all BS.


Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo!
So little time, so much to know!
[ Parent ]
About
5 minutes in Sharron Angle says she not only inspired Republicans to turn out, but Democrats and Independents. You're right Sharron, you inspired Democrats and Independents to turn out to make sure you would never become senator.

19, Male, Independent, CA-12
[ Parent ]
Also
Not only did she say that she inspired them, but that she inspired them to do the right thing. (She mentioned something about the constitution, but I'm sure she meant keeping her from being a Senator, right?)
[ Parent ]
Lawrence O'Donnell
 Showed really bad concession speeches on his show yesterday. They included Christine O'Donnell trying to get Chris Coons to vote the way she wanted. Lawrence O'Donnell also mentioned Angle's speech. The point of a concession speech as he said is to make people on the other side want to vote for you. You need to be gracious in your speech.  

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17, CA-06,  

[ Parent ]
She sounds like a televangelist. (nt)
No text.
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And God thanks us Nevadans...
For not disrespecting her by doing something as insane as putting this crazy person into high office.

Yes, Virginia, there ARE progressives in Nevada!
24, gay male, Democrat, NV-03 (or 04?)
[ Parent ]
THANK YOU!
I kinda viewed Kitz as my pet governor's race to watch. Someone who seemed solid and was ready to get in there and crack some skulls for a progressive government. Dudley impressed me as having NO agenda.

This is a BIG win, in my book and was one of the toss up races I wanted the most (FL and OH would have made my night in the GOV category if everything else went the way it did, but I'll take IL).

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26

just this is surely the best new of the day.

after see yesterday's results.

I glad a lot.

[ Parent ]
So Oregon avoided '94 redux?
I know that it looks like they are tied in the state legislature, which sucks, but in '94 didn't one or two really really awful and scandal-plagued Republicans win House seats?  
They're still counting
If the current leaders in the state leg races all win, it would be tied.
[ Parent ]
We're going to hold the state senate by 200 votes

[ Parent ]
That's good to hear
I know Oregon sort of went back and forth for a while so I'm glad it's moving closer to the Democrats.

Were you surprised there weren't more losses around the state or were you surprised there weren't less?

[ Parent ]
We got what we expected
We'll probably take back the state house in two years.  We won only a few close races and they won a bunch.

Kitzhaber also won in 1994, so he's used to bucking a wave and Oregon is significantly more blue as a whole than it was 10 years ago.

[ Parent ]
Dudley expected to speak (probably to concede) at 7:15 PM local
Video probably available here:

http://www.kgw.com/live-stream

And that's that
Dudley just conceded.
[ Parent ]
Hell yes
The wave was real. It crushed Democrats across the country.

Except...not on the West Coast. Not in New England. Not in Maryland or Delaware.

Democrats won tossup races, with just a few exceptions (CA-20 and NH-02), and those by the slimmest of margins. Even in defeat, liberal independent Eliot Cutler dramatically overperformed, losing by just 10,000 votes even with three serious left-wing candidates on the ballot. Gov. O'Malley destroyed Bob Ehrlich in a rematch of 2006, a Democratic wave year, more than doubling his margin in the face of a Republican tsunami.

That's basically why Mark's projection was wrong. He thought the wave would be uniform. It wasn't. Liberals held the line in Burlington and Bridgeport, Provincetown and Pawtucket, Rockville and Rochester. They fought back against big-spending neophytes and conservative demagogues from San Francisco to San Mateo, Los Angeles to Las Vegas, Eureka to Eugene. Youth voters turned out. Latinos turned out. African Americans turned out. The slimy likes of Jeff Perry, Carly Fiorina, and Scott Bruuuuuuuuuun were rejected; nutters like Christine O'Donnell, Sharron Angle, and Art Robinson bounced.

So, Tea Party, as a goddamn proud blue-state American patriot, you can take that mindless rage and really shove it.

20, center-left independent, Auckland Central resident, MD-05 voter, OR-01 native

Well said
but...you realize that San Francisco to San Mateo is a 15 minute drive, right? Kinda kills the drama to use a tiny distance like that. :)

24, CA-14, previously DC-AL
[ Parent ]
Well, yeah...
But they really came in big for Dems. ;)

20, center-left independent, Auckland Central resident, MD-05 voter, OR-01 native
[ Parent ]
"So, Tea Party, as a goddamn proud blue-state American patriot, you can take that mindless rage and really shove it."
Win comment.

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
[ Parent ]
More believable that Connecticut call
I thought it was weird they would just call it for Malloy, the DGA and SoS, when Foley was leading by 8000 votes. At least in Oregon, Kitzhaber is leading by 12000 votes.

Another question. Kitzhaber won almost by this same amount in 1994, but in 1998 he won a landslide because his opponent was Bill Sizemore. Anyone think Kitz is that good a governor to win reelection by the same amount, against at least a credible opponent?

Well, you thought it was weird
because you were probably busy looking at the messed-up national media numbers, which fudged up the results from New Haven. Those people who actually know what the real vote total is think it's perfectly normal.

21, dude, RI-01 (registered) IL-01 (college)
please help Japan. click "donate funds" in upper right and then "Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami." http://www.redcross.org/
[ Parent ]
If then-Gov. Kitzhaber had left office in 2001...
He was extremely well regarded up until the post-9/11 economic downturn, which really hurt blue-chip stocks and forced a major round of layoffs at Intel and other companies that are major employers in Oregon. In addition, his marriage was not-completely-privately disintegrating (he was divorced the same year he left office, 2003) and the state legislature was getting balkier by the day. In an exit interview, the governor famously claimed the state was "ungovernable".

I think he's spent the past seven years figuring out what he would have done differently that past year or two. Now he's got an unprecedented third term in which to do it.

20, center-left independent, Auckland Central resident, MD-05 voter, OR-01 native

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