pbrower2a
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« on: April 26, 2009, 06:32:33 AM » |
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How could Obama lose Oregon? Only with a catastrophic Presidency. Some people expect such on ideological grounds -- which reminds me of liberals in 1981 expecting Ronald Reagan to have a one-term Presidency.
Oregon has gone from a liberal Republican state to a liberal Democratic state, and it is best now understood as the sort of Democratic state that would now vote for the Republican nominee for President only in a Reagan-scale landslide.
Its population is heavily concentrated in urban and suburban areas which voted for Obama in almost all regions of the United States. It has relatively liberal attitudes on 'social' values and is not a haven for the Religious Right.
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