Oregon Senate Race Update

By Ron Beasley

Oregon's Senate race between incumbent Republican Gordon Smith and Democrat Jeff Merkley is still too close to call.  Smith leads by just under 2000 votes  at 3:00PM PST with 74% of the vote counted.  Most of the remaining ballots are from heavily Democratic Multnomah County(Portland) so Merkley is still expected to win.

Update - 3:30 PM PST

Merkley has just taken the lead.  Looking good!

Update - 4:50 PM PST

Merkley now up buy 2500 votes with 76% of the votes counted.

Update - 6:40 PM PST

Jeff Merkley declared winner over Smith;

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Oregonian and KGW projected Wednesday night that Democratic challenger Jeff Merkley would overtake Republican Sen. Gordon Smith to win the Senate seat in the toughest, most expensive race the state has ever seen.

Multnomah and Lane County were still counting ballots Wednesday night, after numbers started to show a lead for Merkley in Multnomah, Oreogn's most populous and liberal county.

I will update as I learn more.

Comments

[Earl]

Lucky...

Funny, though, because even with 100% reporting on the MN SoS site, the numbers keep changing...

Argh...