You can read the local results here, but basically, quite are few groups aren’t getting any money from bond measures. La Pine supported their own with the Park and Rec and RFPD bonds, but Bend, Redmond and County voters all turned down any bill that would even remotely cost them money. The Bend Area Transit and COCC bonds failed, the transient room tax failed, Mike Daly got the axe, many of the Sizemore measures failed (can’t remember exactly which ones were his), Smith/Merkely is still too close to call (Jack thinks Merkely’s going to pull it out), and we don’t have a white guy for President for the first time ever. I don’t pay attention to politics a ton, so feel free to share opinions/reactions below.
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Weird… Alan Unger’s name is misspelled on their list (Alen). I checked our side and everything looks OK. (shrug)
Also the County Clerk just posted the final preliminary results (meaning, they are done counting but haven’t certified yet). KTVZ hasn’t updated to reflect this yet. If you are interested check out http://www.deschutes.org/electionresults
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Thanks for the typo catch, Jen – now fixed, thanks to LogMeIn;-) And all our numbers are up to date, have been since mid-afternoon. The state/federal ones keep updating automagically, too;-)
FYI: Oregon voters have overwhelmingly overturned the double-majority rule that helped protect them from property tax increases.
Prepare for the tyranny of few.
I find it intriguing that McCain held the most votes in Deschutes county. By a very small margin of course; not that it had any overall impact on the outcome.
MSNBC widget here.