Thank God Its Over!

What a crazy election season!

Marcus and I spent election night at the Oregon Convention Center, where there were at least 30 different parties going on, all but a few of which were celebrating victory.

We spent last weekend on a bus travelling the state getting out the vote for state legislative candidates in tight races. Two of the three candidates we helped out won their elections. We did this with the Oregon Bus Project, a nonpartisan organization that fills giant bus with young volutneers and travels the state helping candidates. Check it out at www.oregonbusproject.org.

The campaign that I worked the most on, Measure 65, failed. It was an attempt to open state primary elections to include independent voters. In fact, it went one step further by creating a "top-two" primary, where all candidates for each race, regardless of party compete in the primary and the top-two go to the general. Its very similar to how most local elections are conducted, although under Measure 65 voters would still be presented with information about the party of each candidate.

In Oregon, we have all mail-in ballots. I tried to host a ballot-filling-out party at Moishe House a couple of weeks ago but no one came :( . I think folks were just electioned-out.

Thats all for now.....

Jeremy