Sunday, July 16, 2006
Is Oregon changing?
Hmmm! Is something happening here...
From Nigel Jaquiss at Willamette Week Online:
"Over the past three decades, the number of registered Democrats in the state has not only failed to keep pace with population growth, it has actually declined in absolute terms. According to the secretary of state's election statistics, there were 794,218 Oregon Democrats in 1976; as of this past May, there were 760,066.
Thirty years ago, 56 percent of registered Oregon voters were Democrats; today, that number is less than 39 percent."
And this quote:
'Republicans vote more because they are typically better educated and more affluent,' says Bill Lunch, chairman of the political science department at Oregon State University."
