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Originally Posted by Bladewire
Oregon & Washintion have hotbeds of hardcore racists so this could be why a Republican might have a chance there. Trump activated the racists big time. I grew up in Vancouver Washington.
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Oregon is a strange place. Portland is at the north end of the Willamette Valley which runs nearly the length of the state. That area has Portland, Eugene, and Ashland in it, three of the most liberal cities in the nation and the valley itself is very liberal. However, you leave those urban areas and we have a lot of rural areas that are dark red. I grew up in one of them. So we always have one Republican congressional district and some Republican state reps but rarely any senators (we haven't had a Republican Senator since the mid 1990's) or Governors.
This particular election, the Republicans are bolstered by a couple of things. One is Trump scaring them and firing them up, especially with his pardon of the Hammonds. The other is that our current Governor has done some bad things that have hurt the education system and resulted in us having, likely, the worst homeless problem in the nation. Add in that the Republican is running as pro-choice, pro-education, and pro-healthcare and he is almost like a moderate Democrat so he is getting some support from moderates as well.