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Oregon: Debate

Tue, 10/14/2008 - 08:42

Smith regrets NRSC hot dog ad

By Britten Chase, PolitickerOR.com Reporter

MEDFORD -- During Monday's night debate, both Oregon Senate candidates were asked what they regretted most during the campaign, and U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Pendleton) acknowledged that one of the outside groups helping him went too far with one of its attack ad.

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Tue, 10/14/2008 - 08:32

Merkley, Smith clash over rural issues, public safety, Wyden's support

By Britten Chase, PolitickerOR.com Reporter

MEDFORD - Oregon's U.S. Senate candidates battled for rural policy superiority in a debate Monday night in Medford.

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Fri, 10/10/2008 - 09:36

Sarah Palin: Governor of California?

By Britten Chase, PolitickerOR.com Reporter

The Oregon Senate debate was for the most part a display of two seasoned, well polished politicians. However, U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Pendleton) came up with the one noticeable gaff of the night.

"I met Sarah Palin once," Smith said. "She's a lovely person, she's a great governor of California."

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Fri, 10/10/2008 - 09:26

Merkley-Smith debate covers financial crisis, Iraq, negative ads

By Britten Chase, PolitickerOR.com Reporter

PORTLAND - Oregon's Senate candidates focused on the economic crisis and argued over tax policies in their first general election debate Thursday night.

U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Pendleton) argued for his re-election, defending his support of the Bush administration's tax cuts, saying they were the kind of policies that were needed to get the economy going again.

With an economic downturn facing the country, Smith said that he was the kind of senator Oregon would need to send back to Washington, D.C.

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Wed, 10/08/2008 - 08:04

Analysts: Here are the keys to success in the Senate debate

By Britten Chase, PolitickerOR.com Reporter

For months Oregon's U.S Senate candidates have been battling each other with television advertising and press releases, but Thursday Gordon Smith and Jeff Merkley will engage each other in their first face-to-face debate of the race.

The race between the incumbent Republican and the challenging Democrat is a dead heat, according to the poll and political observers around the country are calling it one of the most competitive - and most negative - Senate contests of the year.

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Fri, 10/03/2008 - 08:37

Secretary of state candidates talk fair elections in first debate

By Britten Chase, PolitickerOR.com Reporter

SALEM -- Secretary of state candidates focused on creating a fair election process during their first debate hosted by the Salem City Club at Chemteka Community College Thursday night.

Candidates Rick Dancer (R-Springfield) and Kate Brown (D-Portland), as well as Pacific Green Party candidate Seth Woolley, stressed that the main job of Oregon's secretary of state was to ensure that the voices of every Oregonian were heard in a fair election process. Each candidate also stressed why they would be the best one to uphold that process.

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