Oregon: Oregon Primary

Jeff Merkley is moving quickly. Minutes after winning the Democratic primary against Steve Novick, the campaign started honing in on Sen. Gordon Smith.

Matt Canter, Merkley's spokesman, cited the support of all of "all of Jeff's friends in labor organizations" as one of the factors that propelled the Speaker to victory.

"Smith is in big trouble," he said.

When asked where the campaign is going to go from here, Canter responded "I'm going to the bar."

After a long and close primary, Speaker Jeff Merkley ultimately won the Democratic nod to take on Sen. Gordon Smith in November.

Merkley won with 45 percent to Novick’s 41 percent, and Candy Neville garnered seven percent of the total vote.

Kate Brown walked away with the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State tonight, scoring 51 percent of the vote, while opponents Rick Metsger and Vicki Walker had 28 percent and 18 percent, respectively.

With a 500 vote lead in the 45th District Democratic State Representative primary, the Michael Dembrow camp is confident and excited at their election night party in Hollywood.

An hour and a half after the ballots were due, Dembrow carried his small lead over Cyreena Boston and Jon Coney in the northeast Portland district.

Dembrow just spoke to his supporters and listed off a long agenda of progressive issues like providing universal health care, making college affordable, ending corporate welfare and stopping global warming and thanked his supporters for their work.