JimRobison's blog

Very interesting results from Gallup about public opinion across the country.

Today's Oregonian "inPortland" insert has an article analyzing the Democratic victories in East Multnomah County.  A couple of quotes are worthy of mention.  Tim Nashif (a Republican consultant) is right when he said "It's been happening slowly but surely for a long time." 

People often have asked me why Oregon voters will seemingly adopt contradictory positions, and why some elections in Oregon are so close. The fact is that for quite some time Oregon has been very evenly divided between conservative and liberal philosophies. Oregon has a large number of voters who are either strongly conservative or strongly liberal, and a smaller number who fall in the middle.