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In reply to the discussion: Ignore the 3rd Way shills with extreme prejudice [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)And we were far more successful at the state level in:
1) Voting in progressive senator Jeff Merkley by a substantial margin!
2) Reelecting Democratic governor Kitzhaber despite problems his fiance was having in the press the last few weeks.
3) Passing marijuana legalization.
4) Completely shutting down 1% funded "Top two" primary measure to the point it was the worst performing measure on the ballot.
5) increasing our seats in both the state senate and legislature. One state senate race is really close now and Dem is slightly ahead, and if he retains that lead, we'll have picked up two seats to make Democratic majority margin 18-12 instead of 16-14.
6) Coming closer than any state has with votes still being close in passing GMO labeling bill, that had the most spent by opposition to it of any state ballot measure in history.
When voters are motivated and come out to support progressive issues and candidates, and they are not impeded by voter suppression built in to one's election system, we get the progressive Democratic Party vote out.