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Oregon: Matt Canter

Fri, 11/14/2008 - 12:33

Former Merkley spokesman takes on Georgia Senate runoff

By Britten Chase, PolitickerOR.com Reporter

If you thought everyone in Oregon had enough of the intense, bitter Senate campaign now that the race between U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Pendleton) and U.S. Senator-elect Jeff Merkley (D-Portland) was finished, think again.

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Tue, 05/13/2008 - 13:57

Tonight we’re gonna’ campaign like it’s 1949: Novick accuses Merkley camp of ‘red-baiting’

By Lauren Lafaro

Rosenbergs, move over. There's a new commie in town.

Jeff Merkley's spokesman might want to blacklist Steve Novick. According to Matt Canter, Novick's base is from the liberal heart of downtown Portland, or as he described it to The Politico, the "inner circle of the Kremlin."

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Fri, 04/18/2008 - 17:13

Issue of Tibetian independence makes appearance in Senate campaign

By Lauren Lafaro

Tibetian independence-an unusual campaign issue- has been thrown into the spotlight as of late due to the impending Olympics in Beijing.

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Tue, 03/25/2008 - 07:45

Canter memo says campaign dynamics have changed

By Alex Isenstadt, Politicker.com Reporter

Matt Canter, communications director for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley, is hitting reporters’ inboxes Tuesday morning with a campaign memo outlining how “over the past week the dynamics of the Oregon Senate race have changed. Gordon Smith has emerged from the shadows to launch two new false attacks on Jeff Merkley.”

Canter points, for example, to a new NRSC Web site slamming Merkley.

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Thu, 03/13/2008 - 19:32

Heading to the stretch, Novick camp says it sees a path to victory

By Alex Isenstadt, Politicker.com Reporter

When veteran pollster Bob Meadow joined Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Steve Novick’s campaign last year, he had some concerns.

One was that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Meadow felt, was standing behind primary opponent Jeff Merkley, the Oregon House Speaker. The committee’s chair, New York Senator Chuck Schumer, had a way of pushing for what he wanted and Meadow feared that Schumer would find a way to push Novick aside.

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Tue, 03/04/2008 - 16:47

Democratic U.S. Senate primary gets heated

By Alex Isenstadt, Politicker.com Reporter

With the Democratic U.S. Senate primary now less than three months away, the campaigns for Jeff Merkley and Steve Novick are increasingly engaging in a war of words.

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