Primary '08: Hippie and Hillbilly Hituesday

Only a few more states now. Tonight Kentucky and our downstairs roommate Oregon will have their voice spun.

Wouldn't candidates save a whole bunch of time, money, and fuel if primaries were held geographically? Plus the media could label each night like they do with the Potomac Primary. Washington, Oregon, and Idaho could be Sasquatch Saturday.

Senator Clinton should take the Bluegrass State for certain reasons, and Senator Obama will win Oregon for other reasons.

Obama needs seventeen of tonight's 102 delegates to reach a majority of the pledged delegates. We are still impressed by his Portland crowd of 75,000, making it the greatest day in history to visit Powell's Organic Gardening section.

Overall, we are pleased that the circus surrounding Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Indiana are over, and that the campaign is taking a gentler tone.

Oregon will also pick which Democratic Senate candidate gets to run against Gordon Smith in November. All we know is one of the guys is in the state house and the other guy has one hand.

Skip the meals and swig bourbon or Bridgeport IPA, the nation's first microbrew (Seattlest Geoff, is this true?).