In Oregon the Republican party is so inept and marginalized it's almost painful. The Dems here would benefit from a capable opposition that kept them honest.

The governor's office was theirs for the taking and they put forth one of the least likeable candidates imaginable who was way to the right of the median voter. He was also a terrible campaigner. At one point they touted their new bill board campaign as the thing that would clinch the victory (I shit you not, a fucking bill board campaign). Check this hot mess of a bill board out.

I won't bother you with what this cryptic steaming mess of wasted campaign money means, I pay attention and had no idea that it was even related to politics when I first saw it. Poly sci teachers couldn't even parse the damn thing out.

The lady the ran against the semi vaunerable first term senator had recently been hit with a restraining order for creepily stalking her ex boyfriend and scaring his kids. She was a doctor who's big appeal was supposed to be all the health care wisdom she was going to bring to bear in an effort to appeal Obama care. Most of the health care stuff she put out turned out to have been plagerized. She had more bizarre problems that were fairly reminiscent of that other lady running for Senate that had campaign that she wasn't a witch.

It's almost too bad. The Dems generally get to do whatever stupid shit suits their fancy without being held to the bounds of reality but I feel assured that no creepy womb control fetishist is going to impose their values on my daughter when she grows up.

It's worth looking at the Congressional districts here, I'm on my phone or I'd find a decent pic. There is one massive Republican district that holds the eastern half of the state, than there are 4? Democratic districts along the coast. We were something like 30k shy of getting anothet district this census, probably would have been dem as well with the way redistricting works here.