Oregon Governor Megathread

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This race feels like a rare example of three very serious, credible, and well-funded candidates all running really bad campaigns. I don't think I've ever seen a non-Presidential or New York City mayoral campaign in which all of the credible candidates were so uniquely unappealing in their own independent ways, had such easily exploitable vulnerabilities, and consistently failed over the course of the campaign to play up any of their strengths. It's one of those situations where it feels almost like a shame that one of them has to win.

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This race has been over and done with for some time now but I wanted to pop in here just to say that the Nike guy bankrolling Betsy Johnson but then flipping to Drazan at the last minute when polling showed she was competitive only to cause Johnson to hemorrhage support putting Kotek back in the lead is probably one of the funniest political own-goals in recent years and one of the only examples I can point to of a major, well-connected donor actively minimizing their interests.