What most Oregon mainstream media political pundits get stupidly wrong is their refusal to accept the phenomenon of Donald Trump.
If we have courageous, non-equivocating Trump-supporting candidates, those candidates will pick up nearly 100% of the Republican base, a majority of Independents and unaffiliated, and a good chunk of Democrats, perhaps 15% or more THAT is a winning formula in Oregon or anywhere else.
Don’t tell me about “Blue Oregon.” Not this time around.
And ask yourself this question: can you imagine a Republican voting for a Democrat? No way!
Now think the opposite: can you image a Democrat voting for a Republican? Of course you can, evidenced by Donald Trump’s 2016 victory.
Mainstream media political commentators assume Oregon voters hate Donald Trump! Our voters are no different from the rest of the country, and they are not stupid. It’s so many of our Republican candidates who are intimidated, offering the same old lean-left protocol. (Either that, or we have no candidates at all. As I write this, 30% of our House and 30% of our Senate districts have no Republican candidates filed at all.)
Elsewhere in the country, in November, watch the Trump landslide happen. Let’s see how many of our Oregon candidates have stood up tall to take part in it. And let’s see how many of our mainstream media political pundits notice.
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-sam carpenter