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Who do you want to be the Next Governor?

  • Tina Kotek

    Votes: 14 48.3%

  • Betsy Johnson

    Votes: 7 24.1%

  • Christine Drazan

    Votes: 1 3.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 3.4%

  • None of the Above

    Votes: 4 13.8%

  • I don't live in Oregon

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Total voters
    29
ABM said:
K, I was in 5th grade.
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She must have been at least a senior in high school by the time you were in the fifth grade. Ah, I see now. Infatuation with the older woman, you dog you.
As a side note, did you know that her father, Karl Halverson, developed Mountain Park? I remember when it was mostly farm land and my cousin and I would go there to target shoot our .22s. One of the farmers there had a target range that he let anyone use. Never saw anyone else there but sure saw a lot of targets riddled with holes. My cousin and I were early or maybe preteens when we saw a bull chase a cow around finally catching and mounting it. The farmer came out and beat the bull off with a rake (no, Sly, get that grin off your face, it wasn't that kind of beating off). Guess he was worried about the bull breaking the legs of the cow. At our age you can guess what our reaction was, yep, we laughed our asses off.
 
Lanny said:
She must have been at least a senior in high school by the time you were in the fifth grade. Ah, I see now. Infatuation with the older woman, you dog you.
As a side note, did you know that her father, Karl Halverson, developed Mountain Park? I remember when it was mostly farm land and my cousin and I would go there to target shoot our .22s. One of the farmers there had a target range that he let anyone use. Never saw anyone else there but sure saw a lot of targets riddled with holes. My cousin and I were early or maybe preteens when we saw a bull chase a cow around finally catching and mounting it. The farmer came out and beat the bull off with a rake (no, Sly, get that grin off your face, it wasn't that kind of beating off). Guess he was worried about the bull breaking the legs of the cow. At our age you can guess what our reaction was, yep, we laughed our asses off.
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Karen (Miss) Halverson was my 5th Grade teacher at Palisades Elementary. Would've been around 1967. We may be talking about two different Karen Halversons. Not sure.
 
ABM said:
Karen (Miss) Halverson was my 5th Grade teacher at Palisades Elementary. Would've been around 1967. We may be talking about two different Karen Halversons. Not sure.
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At that time the Karen I'm thinking of would have been out of high school but too young to have graduated from college.
 
Looks like it will be Tina Kotek vs Christine Drazan in the fall.
 
I don't even like Tina, but lets be real. She wins and wins without much of a fight.
 
Drazan recieved the least amount of votes of any Republican nominee for governor in Oregon for the past 80 years.

Betsy Johnson running as an independent will draw many votes from Republicans hoping to finally get a voice in the governor seat as well as votes from more moderate Democrats who feel Kotek is too far left.

It could be a close race between Kotek and Johnson.
 
Chris Craig said:
Not really 2 to 1. Drazan has no chance to win.
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I wouldn't be so quick to say that. She will get a solid 40% of the state vote. Betsy will get more dem votes than rep votes. If any more than 1 in 5 dem voters votes for Betsy, Drazan wins.
 
Chris Craig said:
Drazan recieved the least amount of votes of any Republican nominee for governor in Oregon for the past 80 years.

Betsy Johnson running as an independent will draw many votes from Republicans hoping to finally get a voice in the governor seat as well as votes from more moderate Democrats who feel Kotek is too far left.

It could be a close race between Kotek and Johnson.
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Okay, jack & coke bet with you too?
 
SlyPokerDog said:
I wouldn't be so quick to say that. She will get a solid 40% of the state vote. Betsy will get more dem votes than rep votes. If any more than 1 in 5 dem voters votes for Betsy, Drazan wins.
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That's possible. Betsy may get more Republican votes than you think. She is an ex Democrat, but while in office she voted mostly with the Republicans.
 
I think this is going to be a neck and neck three way race. And Drazan may just slide in because Kotex is waaaayyyy too liberal for many Oregonians (and is too closely tied....unfair or not....to an unpopular Kate Brown), and Johnson's pro gun leanings became an even bigger liability this past week or two. I personally can't bring myself to vote for either one and will likely not cast a vote for any gubernatorial candidate. But I won't be shocked if Drazan wins pretty much by default, as the other two candidates are more polarizing than her. But then, Trump could give her the kiss of death and endorse her. Whatever happens, this could be the most interesting governors race in my lifetime.......
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
I think this is going to be a neck and neck three way race. And Drazan may just slide in because Kotex is waaaayyyy too liberal for many Oregonians (and is too closely tied....unfair or not....to an unpopular Kate Brown), and Johnson's pro gun leanings became an even bigger liability this past week or two. I personally can't bring myself to vote for either one and will likely not cast a vote for any gubernatorial candidate. But I won't be shocked if Drazan wins pretty much by default, as the other two candidates are more polarizing than her. But then, Trump could give her the kiss of death and endorse her. Whatever happens, this could be the most interesting governors race in my lifetime.......
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I hope Drazan doesn't win. She will put forth a don't say gay law here. Though it will get struck down. She espouses some pretty far right stuff.
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
I think this is going to be a neck and neck three way race. And Drazan may just slide in because Kotex is waaaayyyy too liberal for many Oregonians (and is too closely tied....unfair or not....to an unpopular Kate Brown), and Johnson's pro gun leanings became an even bigger liability this past week or two. I personally can't bring myself to vote for either one and will likely not cast a vote for any gubernatorial candidate. But I won't be shocked if Drazan wins pretty much by default, as the other two candidates are more polarizing than her. But then, Trump could give her the kiss of death and endorse her. Whatever happens, this could be the most interesting governors race in my lifetime.......
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Kotek beat out the more moderate Tobias Read in the primaries by a lot of votes. She might do better you expect. But, you could be right.
 
At some point, Betsy's going to put out ads going after one or the other. I have a feeling Kotek will be her primary target.
 
Anything's possible, and I certainly don't claim to know what the voters will do - but I'd be surprised if Johnson and Kotek split the D vote such that Drazen wins.

I think the most likely outcome is that Johnson fails to gain altitude and becomes a non-factor.
The second most likely outcome is that Johnson draws at least the same percentage of R voters as she does D, and so Kotek wins.
The third most likely outcome is that Drazen fails to gain altitude and Johnson becomes the de facto choice of R voters. In that instance, she might be able to draw enough D votes to make it close or even win.

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