“Something is going on in Oregon,” Rove said.
Crunchy, Northwest, 57-percent-voted-for-Obama-in-2008 Oregon?
Yup, it “mystifies” Rove, too, but Oregon was the name he gave for a state that could be a future battleground.
This is how he sees it: The state was competitive in 2000, going for Democrat Al Gore by a razor-thin 46.9 percent to 46.5 percent margin. Rove said he’s seeing “a little bit of evidence that Obama has some difficulty there” this election cycle, although not enough to be threatening.
Rove hypothesizes that the state’s “libertarian, Western, iconoclastic” character could be an interesting mix for Republicans, even though it remains one of the most “unchurched” states in the Union.
