Why was Oregon so close?

[morgankingsley]

I know this sounds silly and probably stupid, but I think that maybe part of it was the Reagan and Bush nostalgia that had not fully gone away from some younger-middle age voters, there not being a giant surge of young voters, the rise of Obama liberalism not coming in yet, now that Perot wasn't running, many of those people had to make a pick and a overwhelming majority picked Bush, and the fact that Gore was honestly kind of a boring campaigner in most peoples eyes that all contribute to the less than one percent victory, then you have to remember it was one of Naders best states, and Nader definitely took more from Gore than Bush.