• wavebeam@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    “But that’s all just Portland voters! All the rest us of didn’t want that!” - My idiot father. Yeah dude, Portland is most of us. Your vote isn’t worth more just because you live around less people.

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      9 months ago

      It’s not even true. There are 3 million registered voters in Oregon, of whom 565k are in Portland (well, Multnomah). While we lean very heavily D, most of the registered D’s in the state are elsewhere.

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        9 months ago

        “Portland” is usually used as shorthand for Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington counties, which are about half the states population overall. Shouldn’t be shocking that half the states population does rather heavily influence how the state is run though. Did folks expect Harney county (10,135 sq mi, with 7,515 people) to be the big decider? C’mon now.

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          Surprisingly, even if you include all 3 counties you’re still only about 40% of the registered voters–although you are now at about 50% of the registered D’s. Meaning the rest of the state skews Republican but not by that much.