With Oregon's demographics, why can't Hillary win there?

[DesEtoiles]

She also lost Washington and Idaho.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Not enough bigots.

[graycem]

2. It should be a blow out for her

isn't it full of hard working whites? I guess she'll win by 15%. :shrug:


http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/41000.html

[Blondiegrrl]

3. Obviously they're all elitsts. Duh!

:P

[JI7]

4. she lost Iowa

[FightingIrish]

5. We Oregonians have a low tolerance for bullshit

[ORDem]

33. ... and yet, Kevin Mannix still manages to disgrace our ballots year after year. :^)

:eyes:

[DAGDA56]

6. Someone needs to ask Lanny Davis precisely that question.

[ShortnFiery]

7. Paul Begala would LABEL citizens of Oregon as: Granola Munching Eggheads.

:grr:

[ericgtr]

8. Last month he packed out one of our stadiums with over 13,000 people

and I can guarantee that less than 10% of them were African American, if that.

[virtualobserver]

10. .you can afford stadiums.....I'll bet you sit in your fancy stadiums...sipping your lattes..

[DesEtoiles]

17. Yes, it's called Latte-Trust-Fund-Elitist Arena Coliseum Center

[Speck Tater]

28. Oh yah. Them lumberjacks wouldn't be caught out in the woods without their lattes.

Of course I live in rural Oregon, so I don't really see much in the way of latte out here. (I heard tell it's some kind of fancy coffee, but you couldn't prove it by me.)

Oh, and for the record, this retired, rural, white, male, jeans and flannel-shirt Oregonian is supporting Obama.

[melody]

9. The northern part is more liberal than San Francisco

Which is why I love it.

[BlooInBloo]

13. Only because SF is so much bigger. PDX is no more liberal than, say, SOMA.

[melody]

18. That isn't my experience at all -- some of the Portland city planning is stunningly pro-people

I just love that city.

[BlooInBloo]

21. I love em both - and Seattle. Of course the food in SF is beyond comparison.

(Yes, that's the most important thing to me.)


EDIT: And yah - from the bus system to the renovation of what's-the-name-of-that-part-of-town, it does seem astonishingly competently thought out.

[ORDem]

35. Unless you're homeless. They just fully implemented the "sit-lie" law without

making good on their promises to make safe spaces for the homeless folks. Still plenty of bigots in OR, which once had a strong KKK. Read up on the Vanport flood sometime. :eyes:

[TexasObserver]

11. not enough old, racist white people

is the reason she can't win the west or northwest

[cliffordu]

12. Starbucks invented lattes here...Kool-aid lattes.

[JVS]

14. Because a lot of white people think she sucks

[Cha]

16. I know some Polka Dotted

People who don't admire her lies, either.

[PBS Poll-435]

15. The Washington Primary was within 3 or 4

[chascarrillo]

20. Which means absolutely nothing, since we're a caucus state.

[BlooInBloo]

27. Yup. Seattle vs Rest Of State Hicks. We won.

[Diane R]

31. Come on. That was obnoxious. You know, Obama took EVERY county in Wn. State, including the east.

[davidpdx]

19. Oregon has a pretty good grassroots Obama movement

I've lived in the state for most of my life, but spent the last 4+ years outside the US. The area that I grew up in, Southern Oregon, has a very strong group of people. Up in Portland (where I spent the last 11 years before I moved abroad) there is also huge number of strong Obama supporters committed to get people out to vote for him. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he won Oregon by 12%.

[CreekDog]

22. Cuz it's weird but not backward

:hide:

[virtualobserver]

24. so lucky...., where I'm from, we can't even afford to cling to guns or religion when we get bitter

we are forced to cling to our ignorance.

I need to move to Oregon.

[sudopod]

23. Too much coffee. nt

[scheming daemons]

25. Because the white people in Oregon aren't hard-working enough?

:shrug:

[DesEtoiles]

26. they must be the elitist trust-fund babies

[sakura]

29. It's the lattes.

You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting a Starbuck's. Not that I swing dead cats. Much.

[Diane R]

30. Well educated voters.

[book_worm]

32. First, they are still very anti-war and second, lots of independents

who are socially liberal but moderate on economic issues and who look at Hillary pandering on the gas tax as old politics and like Obama's stand. And finally, yes--not as many bigots.

[Warren DeMontague]

34. Lattes. nt

[RichardRay]

36. Because my brother lives there...

along with my SIL, my first time voting age nephew, my 86 year old mother and the spirit of my father (who died in December pissed that he wouldn't get to vote this year).

They all promised me they'd carry Oregon for Senator Obama in th primary and again in the general. I'm holding them to their words. (except Dad, he gets a pass if it goes badly).

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

37. Because we Pacific Northwesters can tell the difference between ice-cream and bullshit.

[slinkerwink]

38. there are many whites there in Oregon who are hard-working and truly American

[kevinmc]

39. Not enough racist dumbass's . n/t