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• OR-Sen: Top Oregon Dem to enter race

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:31 pm

  Tags: Or Sen, Oregon, Senate, 2008 Elections, Gordon Smith, Jeff Merkley

  to take on Bush enabler Gordon Smith. According to an anonymous source, former FuturePAC guru Jon Isaacs appears to be heading at least the development of Merkley's initial team, if not the entire campaign. While the prospective candidate mulls the final decision over with his family this week, Isaacs was reportedly lining up folks to

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• OR-Sen: August no recess for Smith

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:11 pm

  Tags: Sen, Oregon, Gordon Smith, Dick Cheney, Iraq, Natural Resources, Salmon, Water, Senate, 2008 Elections

  trying to keep his seat) Gordon Smith might have "broken" with Bush on Iraq, but he's having a hard time keeping his story straight on this one. Via Carla at Loaded Orygun, Smith has a hard time with a Roseburg audience explaining exactly where he is on the war: "When the president stood on the aircraft carrier (and said) ‘Mission

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• KY-Sen, OR-Sen, NM-Sen, MN-Sen: Latest numbers

  Published: August 22, 2007, 12:13 pm

  Tags: Ky Sen, Sen, Nm Sen, New Mexico, Oregon, Kentucky, Senate, 2008, Mitch Mcconnell, Gordon Smith, Pete Domenici, Mn Sen, Minnesota, Norm Coleman

  or disapprove of the job Gordon Smith is doing as United States Senator? Approve 46 (48) Disapprove 44 (43) You are in serious trouble if your job approval ratings are under 50 percent.

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• OR-Sen: Yup, Smith (R) is in trouble

  Published: August 22, 2007, 6:35 pm

  Tags: Sen, Oregon, Senate, 2008, Gordon Smith, Jeff Merkley

  MoE 4.86 (No trend lines) Smith (R) 38 Merkley (D) 19 Frohnmayer (I) 7 Only 63 percent of Republicans are locked in support. Merkley, who just announced, has 34 percent of Democratic support, with 34 undecided and 21 percent choosing Smith. Over the coming year, the Democratic nominee will have to peel away Smith's Democratic support much

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• OR-Sen: Be Careful What You Wish For

  Published: September 8, 2007, 10:28 pm

  Tags: Sen, Oregon, 2008, Senate, Gordon Smith, Larry Craig, Salmon, Environment

  Craig's swift downfall, Sen. Gordon Smith says he is ready to be the new go-to guy in the U.S. Senate for timber and other Northwest natural-resource industries. Smith, R-Ore., said he feels "very keenly the responsibility" to help not only loggers, but ranchers, farmers and miners. "My plate just got bigger," Smith said in a telephone interview

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• OR-Sen: Smith's (R) incredibly shrinking approval numbers

  Published: November 5, 2007, 3:26 pm

  Tags: Or Sen, Oregon, Senate, Gordon Smith, Jeff Merkley

  you will vote to reelect Gordon Smith, will you consider voting for someone else, or do you think you will vote to replace Gordon Smith? Re-elect 30 Consider someone else 25 Replace 16 But that's just a partisan poll, right? Didn't that just-released SUSA poll just show Smith hovering in the upper 40s? Well, that latest SUSA poll of all

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• NM-Sen, CO-Sen, ME-Sen, MN-Sen, NH-Sen, OR-Sen, VA-Sen: Polltopia!

  Published: November 5, 2007, 1:52 pm

  Tags: Nm Sen, Co Sen, Me Sen, Mn Se, Nh Sen, Or Sen, Va Sen, New Mexico, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Virginia, Senate, 2008, Mark Warner, Jim Gillmore, Jeff Merkley, Gordon Smith, Heather Willson, Steve Pearce, Diane Denish, Tom Udall, Mark Udall, Marty Chavez, John Sununu, Jean

  47 Wiviott (D): 38 Oregon Smith (R): 48 Merkley (D): 39 Smith (R): 45 Novick (D): 39 Virginia (open) Allen (R): 42 Warner (D): 52 Gilmore (R): 35 Warner (D): 57 Kind of ironic that SUSA didn't poll Udall, since it's looking increasingly likely that he'll be joining that race. But from the looks of it, even our worst performing

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• Farm Bill At Standstill After Vote

  Published: November 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Farm, Bill, Standstill, After, Vote, U S Senate, Collin Peterson, The White House, Mitch Mcconnell, Norm Coleman, Gordon Smith, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, The Washington Post Company, Charles F Conner, Chuck Grassley, John Thune, Ken Salazar, Tom Harkin, German Marsha

  Senate Democrats failed yesterday to break an impasse that has stalled action on a five-year, $286 billion farm bill, increasing the possibility that the legislation could be delayed until next year.

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• Farm Bill At Standstill After Vote

  Published: November 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Farm, Bill, Standstill, After, Vote, U S Senate, Collin Peterson, The White House, Mitch Mcconnell, Norm Coleman, Gordon Smith, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, The Washington Post Company, Charles F Conner, Chuck Grassley, John Thune, Ken Salazar, Tom Harkin, German Marsha

  Senate Democrats failed yesterday to break an impasse that has stalled action on a five-year, $286 billion farm bill, increasing the possibility that the legislation could be delayed until next year.

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• OR-Sen: Cranky Oregonians diss Smith

  Published: December 8, 2007, 2:31 pm

  Tags: Or Sen, Oregon, 2008, Senate, Gordon Smith, Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, Steve Novick

  particularly bad if you're Gordon Smith, who is running in '08. According to a new poll commissioned by the Oregonian and KGW TV, Smith's approval rating in the state is a dismal 40 percent. The poll shows that public frustration with political leaders remains as intense as ever, said Adam Davis, of Davis, Hibbitts & Midghall, the

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• OR-Sen: Gordon Smith hearts Segregationist Lott

  Published: December 18, 2007, 1:59 pm

  Tags: Or Sen, Oregon, 2008, Gordon Smith

  Consider Oregon's Gordon Smith. Here's what he had to say this morning, regardling Lott's little racist slip-up that cost him his caucus's leadership position. "I was half way around the world when an event befell Trent Lott that shook me deeply," Smith said, referencing Lott's 2002 remarks in praise of Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's

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• Today in Right-Wing Trolling

  Published: December 19, 2007, 12:09 pm

  Tags: Apologist For White Supremacism Gordon Smith, Wingnuttery, Conservative Illogic

  white supremacy and Gordon Smith's defense of Lott: the analogy would only hold if someone not only attended a birthday party for Robert Byrd but specifically cited his membership in the Klan and his filibusterting the Civil Rights Act as things to be proud of. In response, some trollbot dutifully intones: "And yet you ignore former

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• Showdown Nears on Stimulus Bill

  Published: January 31, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Showdown, Nears, Stimulus, Bill, Max Baucus, Chuck Grassley, George W Bush, Mitch Mcconnell, U S Senate Committee On Finance, Iowa, Maine, Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, Gordon Smith, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Jon Kyl, Olympia Snowe, The White House, Aarp

  With bipartisan support, the Senate Finance Committee yesterday approved a $157 billion economic stimulus plan that rivals the measure fashioned by President Bush and House leaders, setting up a Senate showdown today that could determine who will receive rebates from the federal government and how...

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• Why I am voting for the high school drop out

  Published: May 17, 2008, 1:44 pm

  Tags: 08 Elections, Politics, Gordon Smith Lies, Oregon Elections, Oregon Primary, Oregon S Senator S Race, Steve Novick

  This post is a bit about Oregon Politics. Our primary will be counted on Tuesday May 20th, although we have had ballots in our hot little hands for 3 weeks now. We vote by mail or elections drop boxes only. No exit polls here, unless they get the last minute voter physically dropping off [...]

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• So, Candidates, Who's It Going to Be?

  Published: May 11, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Candidates, Who S, Going, Barack Obama, John Mccain, Hillary Clinton, John Thune, Mitt Romney, Charlie Crist, Kathleen Sebelius, Sam Nunn, Tim Kaine, Rob Portman, Ted Strickland, Tim Albrecht, Tim Pawlenty, Florida, Kansas, Ohio, Gordon Smith, Indianapolis, Jeff M

  Sen. Barack Obama's victory in North Carolina and near-miss in Indiana last week remove much of the doubt about whether he will win the Democratic nomination for president. With Obama the likely Democratic nominee and Sen. John McCain long his party's presumptive nominee, the search for their vice...

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