While his fellow Democrats lost their Senate majority Tuesday night, Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley cruised to a strong re-election victory over Republican challenger Monica Wehby.
Merkley's victory was clear minutes after the polls closed as he held a commanding lead of a more than 2-to-1 ratio over Wehby in partial results.
Winning his first re-election victory helps the 58-year-old Merkley cement his political standing in Oregon, and he will now have a more senior position on the Senate Appropriations Committee. But he'll have to operate from the minority in the Senate, making it harder to get things done.
This win for the democrats is one of the few as the Republicans gained 7 spots on the Democrats. It just goese to show that some states will never change even if the rest of the country does. Oregon is highly democratic and has been for years. I'm not sure of the effect this will have on the Senate, I just thought it was an interesting view to look at the "losing side" of the Senate elections.
Since all of these blogs are mostly on the same thing, my comments will be similar. Though the Democrats won in Oregon, the only thing that really matters is that the GOP now controls Congress. I feel that Oregon, however, should focus on not legalizing Marijuana.
ReplyDeleteYeah i think it seemed to me that most of the seats that are always democrat or always republican just stayed with the party. It just happened that all the seats that can go back and forth each election ended up going to the republicans this year. My brother went to school in oregon and from what i heard from him its uber liberal.
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