What's the story on the Oregon Senate race?

[blueclown]

Does Merkley stand a chance?

Has Portland came in fully for him?

[sandnsea]

1. Still counting

77% in.
http://www.oregonlive.com/

Although I think Eugene is done.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

2. High hopes in Portland

Although it seems that a lot of folks continued to be flim-flammed by Smith's moderate, reasonable-sounding voice. Had I not had a good talk (backed up by references) with my gal about Smith's moderate voice but lockstep GOP voting record, she might have made the same mistake.

[onenote]

3. I think there is reason for optimism based on what votes are still to be reported

the difference at the moment is less than 10,000 votes and there are still a lot of unreported votes from Multnomah and Lane counties, both of which are going Merkley's direction. Extrapolating from what has been reported, its conceivable that he could get a net advantage of an additional 70,000 votes when those counties are done reporting and while there are a few red leaning counties that still have votes to be reported, they are much smaller -- probably too small to save Smith.

[Iwasthere]

4. a local news video on this here in Portland

http://www.kptv.com/video/17897721/index.html