鈥淪omething is going on in Oregon,鈥� Rove said.
Crunchy, Northwest, 57-percent-voted-for-Obama-in-2008 Oregon?
Yup, it 鈥渕ystifies鈥� 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鈥檚 seeing 鈥渁 little bit of evidence that Obama has some difficulty there鈥� this election cycle, although not enough to be threatening.
Rove hypothesizes that the state鈥檚 鈥渓ibertarian, Western, iconoclastic鈥� character could be an interesting mix for Republicans, even though it remains one of the most 鈥渦nchurched鈥� states in the Union.
