2008 United States presidential election in Oregon

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Oregon was won by Democratic nominee Barack Obama with a 16.4% margin of victory, making him the first successful Democrat since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to win over 50% of the state's votes. Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a safe blue state. Situated on the West Coast, which has become a reliably Democratic stronghold, Oregon is a relatively blue state. The last Republican presidential nominee to carry Oregon was Ronald Reagan in his 1984 landslide reelection. Although George W. Bush came close in both 2000 and 2004 (with Al Gore winning by 0.54 percentage points in 2000 and John Kerry by 4.16 percentage points in 2004), Republicans have not seriously contested the state since. This is also the first time that a presidential candidate won more than a million votes in Oregon.

As of the 2024 presidential electionTemplate:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., this is the most recent election in which Jackson County and Wasco County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, and the last time any Southern Oregon county sided with a Democrat. Marion County, which sided with Obama, would not vote Democratic again until 2020.[1]

Primaries

Campaign

Predictions

There were 16 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day:

Source Ranking
D.C. Political Report[2] Template:USRaceRating
Cook Political Report[3] Template:USRaceRating
The Takeaway[4] Template:USRaceRating
Electoral-vote.com[5] Template:USRaceRating
Washington Post[6] Template:USRaceRating
Politico[7] Template:USRaceRating
RealClearPolitics[8] Template:USRaceRating
FiveThirtyEight[6] Template:USRaceRating
CQ Politics[9] Template:USRaceRating
The New York Times[10] Template:USRaceRating
CNN[11] Template:USRaceRating
NPR[6] Template:USRaceRating
MSNBC[6] Template:USRaceRating
Fox News[12] Template:USRaceRating
Associated Press[13] Template:USRaceRating
Rasmussen Reports[14] Template:USRaceRating

Polling

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Obama won every single pre-election poll. Since September 22, Obama won each by a double-digit margin of victory and at least 52% of the vote. The final 3 polls showed Obama leading 55% to 41%.[15]

Fundraising

McCain raised a total of $1,258,426 in the state. Obama raised $6,660,622.[16]

Advertising and visits

Obama and his interest groups spent $1,194,908. McCain and his interest groups spent just $159,222.[17] Neither campaign visited the state.[18]

Analysis

Voters in Oregon have a strong penchant for advancing the protection of civil liberties and individual freedoms, liberal values that have given Democrats a big edge in the state in recent years. The state once leaned Republican, like most of the Pacific Northwest. It only went Democratic once from 1948 to 1984—during Lyndon Johnson's 44-state landslide of 1964. However, the state has gone Democratic in every election since 1988, and along with California and Washington it is reckoned as forming a solid bloc of blue states along the Pacific Coast.

On Election Day, Obama carried the state by 16.35 points. As Oregon was expected to be easily won by Obama, it was called for him as soon as the polls in the state closed. Besides Jackson County in the southwest and Wasco County in the central third, most rural counties in Oregon favored McCain in the 2008 election. Nevertheless, Obama performed much better in these regions than John Kerry had in 2004. Ultimately, Obama's strong support in the more urban Willamette Valley, home to two-thirds of the state's population, would have allowed him to win the state decisively in any event, coupled with the counties making up the northern half of the Oregon Coast. The state remains geographically and politically divided by the Cascade Mountains, with eastern Oregon and the southwest being more rural, less populated and therefore strongly Republican, while the Willamette Valley is more urbanized and therefore strongly Democratic. These two areas compose the core of each party's votes: rural Oregon is strongly Republican and culturally similar to Idaho, while the Willamette Valley—especially the cities of Portland and Eugene—heavily favors the Democrats.

While Republicans typically win more counties due to running up large margins in the east and southwest, Democrats typically win the state because the Willamette Valley has more people. In 2008, Obama's overwhelming margins in Portland and Eugene, combined with strong support from Portland's suburbs (which function as swing counties), enabled him to win a landslide in a structurally liberal state. Although Obama broke no decades-long Republican county streaks, he came within 0.49 percent of winning Polk County and 1.36 percent of winning Yamhill County, neither of which have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964. While not having carried Deschutes County, Obama was only 0.31 percent away from winning it. Prior to Joe Biden in 2020, this was the closest a Democratic candidate came to winning Deschutes County after the 1992 presidential election.[1]

During the same election, Democratic Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Jeff Merkley defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Gordon Smith by a narrow 3.35% margin. Merkley received 48.90 percent of the vote while Smith took in 45.55 percent, with the remaining 5.24 percent going to Dave Brownlow of the Constitution Party. At the state level, Democrats picked up five seats in the Oregon House of Representatives while Republicans picked up one seat in the Oregon Senate.

Results

2008 United States presidential election in Oregon
Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Barack Obama Joe Biden 1,037,291 56.75% 7
Republican John McCain Sarah Palin 738,475 40.40% 0
Peace Ralph Nader Matt Gonzalez 18,614 1.02% 0
Write-ins Write-ins 13,613 0.74% 0
Constitution Chuck Baldwin Darrell Castle 7,693 0.42% 0
Libertarian Bob Barr Wayne Allyn Root 7,635 0.42% 0
Pacific Green Cynthia McKinney Rosa Clemente 4,543 0.25% 0
Totals 1,827,864 100.00% 7
Voter turnout (Voting age population) 62.9%

By county

County Barack Obama
Democratic 		John McCain
Republican 		Ralph Nader
Peace 		Charles Baldwin
Constitution 		Bob Barr
Libertarian 		Cynthia McKinney
Pacific Green 		Various candidates
Write-ins 		Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # % # % # % # %
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| Baker style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 2,805 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 31.96% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 5,650 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 64.37% 106 1.21% 55 0.63% style="background:Template:Party color"| 51 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.58% 23 0.26% Template:Party shading/Others| 87 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.99% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -2,845 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -32.41% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 8,777
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| Benton style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 29,901 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 64.33% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 15,264 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 32.84% 427 0.92% 169 0.36% style="background:Template:Party color"| 214 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.46% 169 0.36% Template:Party shading/Others| 334 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.72% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 14,637 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 31.49% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 46,478
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| Clackamas style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 103,476 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 53.93% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 83,595 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 43.57% 1,750 0.91% 692 0.36% style="background:Template:Party color"| 717 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.37% 284 0.15% Template:Party shading/Others| 1,364 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.71% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 19,881 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 10.36% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 191,878
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Clatsop style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 10,701 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 57.69% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 7,192 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 38.78% 249 1.34% 70 0.38% style="background:Template:Party color"| 101 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.54% 68 0.37% Template:Party shading/Others| 167 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.90% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 3,509 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 18.91% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 18,548
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Columbia style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 13,390 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 54.06% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 10,413 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 42.04% 307 1.24% 202 0.82% style="background:Template:Party color"| 123 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.50% 74 0.30% Template:Party shading/Others| 259 Template:Party shading/Others| 1.05% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 2,977 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 12.02% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 24,768
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Coos style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 14,401 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 46.53% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 15,354 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 49.61% 422 1.36% 204 0.66% style="background:Template:Party color"| 163 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.53% 103 0.33% Template:Party shading/Others| 304 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.98% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -953 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -3.08% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 30,951
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Crook style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 3,632 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 35.09% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 6,371 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 61.54% 157 1.52% 37 0.36% style="background:Template:Party color"| 55 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.53% 24 0.23% Template:Party shading/Others| 76 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.73% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -2,739 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -26.45% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 10,352
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Curry style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 5,230 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 42.41% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 6,646 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 53.89% 174 1.41% 83 0.67% style="background:Template:Party color"| 57 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.46% 26 0.21% Template:Party shading/Others| 116 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.94% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -1,416 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -11.48% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 12,332
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Deschutes style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 38,819 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 48.66% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 39,064 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 48.96% 702 0.88% 259 0.32% style="background:Template:Party color"| 305 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.38% 129 0.16% Template:Party shading/Others| 504 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.63% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -245 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -0.30% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 79,782
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Douglas style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 20,298 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 38.34% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 30,919 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 58.41% 561 1.06% 320 0.60% style="background:Template:Party color"| 217 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.41% 128 0.24% Template:Party shading/Others| 494 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.93% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -10,621 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -20.07% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 52,937
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Gilliam style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 430 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 38.74% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 648 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 58.38% 16 1.44% 6 0.54% style="background:Template:Party color"| 2 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.18% 2 0.18% Template:Party shading/Others| 6 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.54% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -218 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -19.64% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 1,110
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Grant style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 1,006 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 25.74% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 2,785 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 71.25% 30 0.77% 39 1.00% style="background:Template:Party color"| 15 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.38% 2 0.05% Template:Party shading/Others| 32 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.82% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -1,779 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -45.51% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 3,909
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Harney style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 950 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 25.79% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 2,595 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 70.46% 51 1.38% 21 0.57% style="background:Template:Party color"| 29 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.79% 10 0.27% Template:Party shading/Others| 27 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.73% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -1,645 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -44.67% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 3,683
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Hood River style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 6,302 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 64.11% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 3,265 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 33.21% 112 1.14% 44 0.45% style="background:Template:Party color"| 31 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.32% 21 0.21% Template:Party shading/Others| 55 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.56% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 3,037 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 30.90% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 9,830
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Jackson style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 49,090 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 48.58% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 49,043 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 48.53% 844 0.84% 601 0.59% style="background:Template:Party color"| 425 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.42% 224 0.22% Template:Party shading/Others| 820 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.81% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 47 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 0.05% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 101,047
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Jefferson style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 3,682 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 44.27% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 4,402 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 52.92% 100 1.20% 37 0.44% style="background:Template:Party color"| 22 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.26% 21 0.25% Template:Party shading/Others| 54 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.65% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -720 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -8.65% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 8,318
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Josephine style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 17,412 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 41.41% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 22,973 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 54.63% 492 1.17% 379 0.90% style="background:Template:Party color"| 234 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.56% 135 0.32% Template:Party shading/Others| 424 Template:Party shading/Others| 1.01% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -5,561 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -13.22% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 42,049
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Klamath style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 9,370 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 31.87% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 19,113 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 65.01% 300 1.02% 178 0.61% style="background:Template:Party color"| 174 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.59% 68 0.23% Template:Party shading/Others| 196 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.67% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -9,743 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -33.14% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 29,399
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Lake style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 957 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 25.95% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 2,638 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 71.53% 38 1.03% 19 0.52% style="background:Template:Party color"| 11 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.30% 11 0.30% Template:Party shading/Others| 14 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.38% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -1,681 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -45.58% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 3,688
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Lane style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 114,037 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 62.35% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 63,835 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 34.90% 1,836 1.00% 590 0.32% style="background:Template:Party color"| 754 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.41% 534 0.29% Template:Party shading/Others| 1,324 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.72% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 50,202 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 27.45% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 182,910
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Lincoln style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 14,258 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 59.68% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 8,791 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 36.80% 334 1.40% 83 0.35% style="background:Template:Party color"| 127 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.53% 73 0.31% Template:Party shading/Others| 223 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.93% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 5,467 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 22.88% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 23,889
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Linn style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 22,163 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 42.64% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 28,071 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 54.00% 625 1.20% 287 0.55% style="background:Template:Party color"| 237 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.46% 134 0.26% Template:Party shading/Others| 465 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.89% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -5,908 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -11.36% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 51,982
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Malheur style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 2,949 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 28.27% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 7,157 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 68.60% 85 0.81% 81 0.78% style="background:Template:Party color"| 57 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.55% 28 0.27% Template:Party shading/Others| 76 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.73% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -4,208 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -40.33% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 10,433
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Marion style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 61,816 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 49.63% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 59,059 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 47.41% 1,257 1.01% 551 0.44% style="background:Template:Party color"| 528 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.42% 328 0.26% Template:Party shading/Others| 1,024 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.82% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 2,757 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 2.22% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 124,563
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Morrow style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 1,410 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 34.75% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 2,509 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 61.83% 43 1.06% 33 0.81% style="background:Template:Party color"| 23 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.57% 9 0.22% Template:Party shading/Others| 31 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.76% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -1,099 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -27.08% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 4,058
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Multnomah style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 279,696 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 76.69% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 75,171 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 20.61% 4,166 1.14% 904 0.25% style="background:Template:Party color"| 1,195 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.33% 1,207 0.33% Template:Party shading/Others| 2,371 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.65% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 204,525 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 56.08% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 364,710
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Polk style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 17,536 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 48.43% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 17,714 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 48.92% 320 0.88% 184 0.51% style="background:Template:Party color"| 116 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.32% 79 0.22% Template:Party shading/Others| 258 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.71% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -178 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -0.49% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 36,207
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Sherman style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 385 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 36.77% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 634 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 60.55% 8 0.76% 6 0.57% style="background:Template:Party color"| 5 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.48% 1 0.10% Template:Party shading/Others| 8 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.76% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -249 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -23.78% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 1,047
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Tillamook style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 7,072 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 53.18% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 5,757 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 43.30% 197 1.48% 59 0.44% style="background:Template:Party color"| 58 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.44% 42 0.32% Template:Party shading/Others| 112 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.84% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 1,315 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 9.88% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 13,297
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Umatilla style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 9,484 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 37.16% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 15,254 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 59.77% 245 0.96% 166 0.65% style="background:Template:Party color"| 113 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.44% 56 0.22% Template:Party shading/Others| 205 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.80% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -5,770 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -22.61% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 25,523
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Union style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 4,613 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 36.63% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 7,581 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 60.20% 119 0.94% 85 0.67% style="background:Template:Party color"| 63 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.50% 23 0.18% Template:Party shading/Others| 110 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.87% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -2,968 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -23.57% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 12,594
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Wallowa style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 1,492 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 33.42% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 2,836 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 63.52% 35 0.78% 30 0.67% style="background:Template:Party color"| 24 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.54% 6 0.13% Template:Party shading/Others| 42 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.94% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -1,344 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -30.10% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 4,465
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Wasco style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 5,906 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 51.90% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 5,103 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 44.84% 140 1.23% 61 0.54% style="background:Template:Party color"| 46 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.40% 31 0.27% Template:Party shading/Others| 93 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.82% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 803 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 7.06% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 11,380
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Washington style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 141,544 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 59.82% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 89,185 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 37.69% 1,892 0.80% 895 0.38% style="background:Template:Party color"| 1,148 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.49% 379 0.16% Template:Party shading/Others| 1,589 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.67% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 52,359 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 22.13% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 236,632
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Wheeler style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 281 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 34.61% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 498 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 61.33% 11 1.35% 5 0.62% style="background:Template:Party color"| 9 style="background:Template:Party color"| 1.11% 1 0.12% Template:Party shading/Others| 7 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.86% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -217 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -26.72% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 812
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Yamhill style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 20,797 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"| 47.78% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 21,390 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 49.14% 463 1.06% 258 0.59% style="background:Template:Party color"| 186 style="background:Template:Party color"| 0.43% 90 0.21% Template:Party shading/Others| 342 Template:Party shading/Others| 0.79% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -593 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| -1.36% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"| 43,526
Totals 1,037,291 56.75% 738,475 40.40% 18,614 1.02% 7,693 0.42% 7,635 0.42% 4,543 0.25% 13,613 0.74% 298,816 16.35% 1,827,864
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Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

By congressional district

Barack Obama carried four of the state's five congressional districts in Oregon, all held by Democrats.

District Obama McCain Representative
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Template:Ushr 61.03% 36.27% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|David Wu
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Template:Ushr 43.21% 53.86% style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading"|Greg Walden
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Template:Ushr 71.39% 25.78% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Earl Blumenauer
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Template:Ushr 53.79% 43.08% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Peter DeFazio
rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Template:Ushr 53.95% 43.33% style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Darlene Hooley (110th Congress)
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading"|Kurt Schrader (111th Congress)

Electors

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Technically the voters of Oregon cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Oregon is allocated 7 electors because it has 5 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 7 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 7 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them.[19] An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.

The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 15, 2008, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.

The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All 7 were pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden:[20]

  1. Michael Bohan
  2. Shirley Cairns
  3. Joe Smith
  4. John McColgan
  5. Meredith Wood Smith
  6. Frank James Dixon
  7. Bernard Gorter

See also

References

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