Democrats drawn by Oregon's tech jobs and nature have made the state solidly blue. It's part of a transformation that remade the West and recast the fight for the White House.
Intel, Nike and Columbia Sportswear have drawn a certain kind of migrant to Oregon: well-educated, environmentally conscious and Democratic-leaning.Bend, once a played-out timber town, is now a burgeoning mecca of outdoor sports. It has become one of the country’s fastest-growing cities and a magnet for active retirees — and Democrats — like Bryan Eicchorn, 61, an ardent skier and mountain biker.
Democrat Al Gore, making a vice presidential appearance in Hillsboro in 1998, barely edged Republican George W. Bush in Oregon’s 2000 presidential election. and Bob Packwood embodied that Yankee Republican sensibility. They were fiscally prudent, environmentally sensitive and not terribly focused on social issues.— Bill Lunch, emeritus political science professor at Oregon State University
“He was running as a different kind of Republican,” said Dan Lavey, a political strategist who worked that year on Bush’s Oregon campaign. After Sept. 11, Lavey noted, Bush’s emphasis shifted: “WinningThen-Texas Gov. George W. Bush, campaigning at an elementary school in Beaverton, made education a focus of his 2000 presidential campaign. But 9/11 would make the war on terrorism his priority in office, alienating some who had voted for him.
In 2004, Democrat John F. Kerry beat Bush in Oregon, 51% to 47%, carrying Washington County by a slightly bigger margin.Like elsewhere, the political split in Oregon is largely an urban-rural divide. Bend, once a reliable Republican outpost, shows how economic change has eroded GOP support even in the state’s rural reaches.
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