Oregon: Republican National Convention

MINNEAPOLIS -- Former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) told Oregon’s Republican delegation that when Republicans stick to who they are, what they stand for and what they believe in, they win their races every single time.

“When we’re like us, we win,” Armey told the Oregon delegation when he addressed them at their Thursday morning breakfast at the Republican National Convention. “When we’re not like us, we lose.”

[img_assist|nid=2647|title=Former U.S. Rep. Dick Armey at the Republican National Convention|desc=Getty Images Photo|link=none|align=none|width=420|height=280]BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- Former U.S. Rep. Dick Armey (R-Texas) said Thursday that he had no interest in returning to Congress, even under a McCain administration.

MINNEAPOLIS -- U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith’s job approval rating has hit an all-time low, a poll conducted by SurveyUSA shows.

The poll, released Wednesday, shows that Smith has a 56-percent job disapproval rating. The number of people disapproving of Smith’s work in Washington D.C. is the highest that poll has recorded since May 2005. The number of people disapproving of Smith also rose 9 percent since the company last polled Smith’s approval numbers on May 19.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- As he addressed the Oregon delegation, Guam Gov. Felix Camacho told a story of a man on his island that sounded eerily familiar.

He told them of a man on his island. Camacho said the man heard from some people that his daughter had some bad news to tell him. When he went to his daughter, he asked what was wrong, and asked her to be honest. She told him that she was pregnant. He asked her what she intended to do, and she said she would have the baby, she would go off to school, and they would figure something out.