Author: Nate Davis
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Proud of Oregon
Election Day 8:11 p.m. Owen Atlansky, 22, a lifelong Oregonian, was glad to see the state’s electoral votes go to Kamala Harris. “I voted for her. I’m glad to see the majority of Oregon agrees with me, because I’m always right.” Though he votes in Multnomah County, he also has a connection to the congressional…
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Other states
Election Day 7:05 p.m. Jayne Cronin, 22, is an educator from Illinois. They are glad that Illinois went to Harris tonight. They have friends in the battleground state of Wisconsin, also educators, who have been “really gunning for Wisconsin to go blue, because of certain comments Trump has made in recent interviews where he’s been…
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Nervously hoping
Election Day 9:13 a.m. Alyssa Quiog, a Harris supporter, said she is feeling nervous heading into Election Day. “My first election was Trump and Hillary,” she said. “I was very strongly of the opinion that she would win, and that didn’t end up happening.” This time, Quiog says she’s trying to temper her expectations to…
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Equal parts coffee and voting
Election Day 9:01 a.m. Coffee in hand, Kai Warner dropped off his first vote for president outside the Erb Memorial Union at the University of Oregon. “I feel like I’m an official adult,” Warner said. “It’s equal parts nervous and exciting.”
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Green Party Congressional Candidate Fights Odds
Long-shot candidate Justin Filip campaigns aggressively to represent Oregon’s 4th Congressional District. Watching a third-party congressional campaign is not unlike reading about Don Quixote lunging and tilting at windmills. Like the gentleman from La Mancha, Justin Filip has said farewell to a typical life, and has spent the past few months traversing the countryside, extolling…