Author Archives: Bob Hunter

With more than a half million votes counted in the governor’s race, Democrat John Kitzhaber is leading Republican Chris Dudley 53 percent to 44 percent, according to state elections reports.

Report from the GOP party is that Republican challenger Dave Dotterrer is leading incumbent state Sen. Alan Bates. Sketchy details at best for now. County website still down, results being phoned in from elections office.

Oregon Elections Division says with 19 percent of the vote counted, Sen. Ron Wyden is leading his challenger, Jim Huffman by 55 percent to 42 percent.

From the Associated Press: Preliminary results from a telephone poll of Oregon voters show that men favored the Republican candidate for governor, Chris Dudley, while women tended to support his Democrat rival, John Kitzhaber. The survey shows Kitzhaber fared well with voters in households reporting more than $100,000 in income, while Dudley drew some support [...]

The county election website appears to be down, so a lot of frustrated candidates and supporters are constantly refreshing their computers and smartphones, to no avail.

A smallish (30-40) and quiet crowd of Democrats has gathered at Redrock pizza in Medford, awating results, while a larger (100 or so) and more cheerful crowd of Republicans has assembled at the Red Lion about five blocks away. Jackson County Central Committee Chairman Allen Hallmark told a reporter it could be a long night for [...]

Reports from Ashland have a couple of dozen supporters of Jeff Golden and the Ashland schools activity levy gathered at Louie’s Bar &Grill, iPhones and other smartphones at the ready to gather the data as it rolls in. Will the beer be flowing in celebration or accompanied by tears? Stay connected. (7:37 p.m.)

State Rep. Sal Esquivel, R-Medford, was put on his heels a bit by the attack ads launched at him by his challenger, Lynn Howe. But he’s out front in the latest phase of running a clean campaign. His wife and assistant, Jan, has already put out a request for help in collecting lawn signs after the election. It’s not [...]

Second District Congressman Greg Walden had no race to speak of (with all due respect to Joyce Segers), so he’s watching the results with the Republican leadership in Washington D.C. Walden is chairman of the House Republican Conference and deputy chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, so that puts him at the head table with [...]

MSNBC, Fox predict GOP will take the House. Democrats have won a few key Senate seats and look at this point to be holding on to their majority. No big surprise in either of those results.