Oregon Senate and 5th District Primary Results

by brownsox [courtesy of Daily Kos]

Senate:

67 percent of precincts reporting.

The Oregonian has called the race for Jeff Merkley, and according to Blue Oregon, Novick has called Merkley to concede. Merkley will now turn his attention to Gordon Smith for the fall election.

Fifth District results:

Democratic

Republican

Impressive victory for Schrader...and despite loads of terrible press recently, Mike Erickson has won his own primary.

Allegations that Erickson impregnated his mistress, paid for her to get an abortion, and threw wild cocaine parties on his yacht did not sink his campaign, it seems. Erickson, of course, claimed not to know what cocaine looked like, though I should think it would have been obvious that he was, er, feeding us a line.