Here's to there being many more headlines like this one in the months to come.

Hey Eric - You missed this one:

SUSA polls Oregon

SurveyUSA. 4/28-5/1. Likely voters. MoE 3.9% (4/4-6 results)

Obama 50 (52)
Clinton 44 (44)

Among whites:

Obama 50
Clinton 44

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=cd35ffc2-5d9f-4e83-9023-44d488d92aa3

Here's Markos' take:

Yeah, Oregon is mostly white. And Obama is winning it.

Funny that, I've just spent weeks hearing about how Obama can't win white people. So I'm a bit confused.

Also, Oregon is ranked 23rd in the nation in per-capita income. That ranks below Ohio. In fact, none of Oregon's counties rank in the list of the nation's 100 richest counties. And while Portland's Multnomah County is one of the state's wealthiest counties, Obama actually does far better outside of Portland, were people are poorer and whiter.

Funny that, I've just spent weeks hearing about how Obama can't win lower-income voters. So I'm a bit confused.

You know what's going on? White people west of the Mississippi like Obama fine, those east of the Mississippi have a problem with him. That's why (generally speaking) Obama runs far stronger in the western part of the country, despite having smaller to non-existent black populations.

The Religious Right's power is in decline.

You know what's going on? White people west of the Mississippi like Obama fine, those east of the Mississippi have a problem with him. That's why (generally speaking) Obama runs far stronger in the western part of the country, despite having smaller to non-existent black populations.

Omyfuckinggod - someone finally gets it!!!! This is what I'm seeing.

Hillary Clinton panders to voters by proposing gas tax holiday.

Senator Obama and Congress reply:

Well Woo-De-Doo!!!

As a resident of Colorado, this trend doesn't surprise me at all. The American West is a very special place. People here tend to have a live-and-let-live attitude. While most of us are white or Hispanic, people are generally accepting of other races and cultures. And we don't take kindly to fast talking and pandering--we just want someone honest who will get the job done and do it right the first time. Obama is that person.

mordecai - what part of Colorado? If you don't mind sayin -

You're going to hate me for this - I'm one of those Texans. Or was. I spent every summer of my life either on the headwaters of the Rio Grande out of Creede or after my parents bought two houses in Lake City for $12,000 - if you can imagine - on the western slope. Then after they died, I had a place in Lake City. I just sold it and moved down to Taos in the summers.

Anyplace but Dallas.

Well of course your neighborhood is predominantly white, sugar, and that makes your acceptance of people of other colors all the more endearing. I believe of all the cities I have visited, Dallas must be the most racially-accepting and free of discord(well, you know, Highland Park and Plano and Frisco and so forth, where I spent my time there). Thank goodness you are able to get out of Dallas and summer in Taos, where you can experience that strong Native American culture as well. You are just too precious! How could anyone possibly hate you? Thank you in advance for helping us win Texas in November!

I love! the two part premise of the add:

We are FOR God, and AGAINST illegals.

Hilarious.

Morrigan in Oregon - you say that "hippie radicals, Grateful Dead followers and environmental types" like it was a BAD thing.

And then to characterize us as being unobservant, do you know how observant and ever-vigilant we must be to survive in straight stupid society?

My fellow hippie radicals, Grateful Dead followers and environmental types are mostly over 50, homeowners and successful lawyers, govt and business experts, health professionals, etc., IRAs and investment funds are not unknown to us. Most of us travel regularly all over to maintain family ties and the issue of supporting one's ailing, aging parents is becoming bigger and bigger.

I suppose you're one of wonderful citizens who drives a big SUV to the Wal-Mart on SE 82nd with such incompetence, and attends the big mega-church over here that promoted the anti-gay initiatives and where my son's private school is renting their hall for his graduation?

PS Update your stereotypes. Yeah we listen to the Dead on KBOO on Saturdays, but we also listen to the bluegrass, folk, jazz and light hiphop all the rest of Saturday, and we really go nuts late night Monday and Tuesday for the exotic sounds of Joe Woods' "Tiki Chacha Hour" and "Lounge World" shows, and the African and Reggae offerings of DJ Ital Vibes, DJ Charlie and others.

I don't think Oregonians should be congratulating themselves on being less racist than the rest of the country. Mulegeta Seraw would dispute that if he were alive to do so.

Gary Delgado, founder of Center for Third World Organizing, has said that Portland is the most racist city in America. We have long been recognized as "the most openly racist city outside the south" I don't know if that's true, but we all AryanFest to happen here without a murmur.

How many times has Portland utterly decimated a black neighborhood for white benefit. If we don't include the shameful disapparance of Vanport, then let's look at how a vibrant black neighborhood was condemned and handed over to Emanuel hospital to build their facility - 30 blocks of homes knocked down for white convenience. Let's look at the Gentrification that has driven blacks out of N and NE Portland?

Did you read those Letters to the Editor on the Chavez Blvd issue? how about when that immigrant from Africa complained about police stopping him again and again? What about the DEMOCRATIC Party and the Oregon Bus Project being gutless wonders and either not talking about immigration or going along with the nativist haters.

Please, Oregon is the center of the Aryan Rock movement and home to all sorts of white supremacist groups. And let's not forget the so-called liberal alt-weekly spilling gallons of ink defending Aryan Rock...and their continuing promotion of the racist and sexist Callahan, a relentlessly unfunny hatemongering racist. Yes, Portland is very liberal, but liberal does not mean anti-racist.

25% of Oregonians voted to RETAIN racist language in our constitution including the prohibition aganst blacks owning property. yes, the law is overturned, but they want to preserve the racist sentiment in perpetuity. How shameful is that?

Try watching the documentary The Color of Portland.

yeah, I don't get to Portland much, but when Jesse Jackson came to Southern Oregon State College, (now called Southern Oregon University)he talked to us about The State constitution that was approved in 1857 two years before Oregon became a state. In the original Constitution Article II, Sec. 6 provided that "No Negro, Chinaman or Mulatto shall have the right of suffrage." This changed after the Civil War, but until 1935 it was still illegal to 'bring a negro, mulatto or Chinaman'into the state by that same constitution.

So no one said the old Pioneers were singing Kumbaya around those campfires. But I do say there is a lot of wilderness out here, still, that you can carve out a place to live with out getting too close to your neighbors.

This wouldn't apply to Oregon, but would explain places like Idaho, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah:

It was the Clintons who first devised the strategy of writing off large swaths of the country -- you never heard of blue states and red states before then. Democrats in those states rightly resented being thrown overboard like so much ballast. That's why they like Dean and his 50-state strategy, and that's why they like Obama.

The prospect of Hillary bringing out every last dittohead and apocalypse-awaiter to vote against their local candidates in November doesn't exactly thrill them either.

To be fair, the attack ads run in that primary were trying to tie the Dem to Obama, as if that would bring him down.

It didn't.

Markos quote provided by 'thejoshuablog':
"You know what's going on? White people west of the Mississippi like Obama fine, those east of the Mississippi have a problem with him. That's why (generally speaking) Obama runs far stronger in the western part of the country, despite having smaller to non-existent black populations."

Yeah...except in California, and New Mexico, and Arizona, and Oklahoma, and Texas*. Don't get me wrong, I'm for Obama, but let's not pretend the west is somehow behaving in a more enlightened fashion during this election. I've lived on the west coast and now live in the midwest. My state went for Obama in a big way.