Just sayin'

Easiest districts to flip based on last election’s turnout. OR currently sends two Republicans to the House of Representatives.

The 2nd district (R+ 15): Rep: Cliff Bentz. 1,000 new people would change .3% of the vote, he won with 2.1%, 7,299 new voters could change the outcome. The district covers roughly two-thirds of the state, east of the Willamette Valley. It includes all of Baker, Crook, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco, Wheeler counties, all but a small sliver of Jefferson County and the southeastern portions of Deschutes (excluding Bend and areas to its northwest) and Douglas Counties.

The 5th district (D+2): Rep Lori Chavez-DeRener 1,000 new people would change .2% of the vote, she won with 35% more of the vote which means 108,487 new voters could flip it. It stretches from the Southeast suburbs of Portland through the eastern half of the Willamette Valley and then reaches across the Cascades to take in Sisters and Bend. It includes a sliver of Multnomah County, the majority of Clackamas County, the rural eastern portion of Marion County, all of Linn County, a very small section of southwest Jefferson County, and the populated northwest portion of Deschutes County.

dandelion, (edited )
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It would be best to convince people to move to swing states, in most rural areas they’ll just become a wasted vote in a conservative super-majority (like where I live now).

I guess I can feel bad about considering moving to a place like Oregon, as I know most progressive cities are inundated with newcomers, but at this point I need to move to protect myself. My healthcare has already been denied in the state I live in for political reasons, and I’m concerned for my safety as a trans woman. Many of the trans women I know lost their jobs when they transitioned and too many of them have been physically assaulted in public. I see myself a kind of refugee, and progressive cities can offer a kind of asylum for people like me. Most people probably don’t have those reasons for moving, so I try to offer myself a bit of grace when considering moving. Still, I’m sorry.

pdxfed,

Let’s just take a moment to appreciate that the Dems had the opportunity to add a new house rep for the first time in forever with Oregon gaining population relative to other stafes and managed to draw a district that they lost. So fucking incompetent.

Bondrewd,

The only thing I ever heard about Oregon is

  1. How people moved there.
  2. Every drug is decriminalized.

Why the fuck would one care about US politics over the clearly well working state level one is beyond me.

Anticorp,

It works for some issues, and not for others. Portland has massively out of control homelessness. There are dozens of homeless encampments under every freeway overpass. The RHCP song Under the Bridge seems to be about Portland these days.

Scubus,

You want to move to oregon for reasons

I want to move to Oregon because I heard it’s always rainy

We might be the same

Anticorp,

If you want always raining, then you want to move near Puget Sound. That b*tch always be creating rain. Sometimes it starts raining in the fall and it doesn’t stop for two years.

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