# May 17th Primaries - KY and OR

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-17th-primaries-ky-and-or/755051>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 18, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-17th-primaries-ky-and-or/755051 "2016-05-18T00:07:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-17th-primaries-ky-and-or/755051/41 "2016-05-18T21:46:32Z")

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> [@Nonsuch](#):
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> OR is a lot more conservative outside of Portland. Not enough to make the state go red in the general election, but enough to give a moderate candidate some teeth.

But those people probably voted in the Republican Primary. The Liberals in Oregon are on the hippy radical side, rather than the Union/minority/Democratic Machine base that is Hillary’s strong suit.

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-17th-primaries-ky-and-or/755051/42 "2016-05-18T21:50:40Z")

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> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#):
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> No, he’s just caucused with the Democratic Party the whole time he’s ever been in the Senate and voted with them the overwhelming majority of the time. :rolleyes:

If he doesn’t knock this nonsense off, I suggest that he be relegated to committees on national park funding and post office operations.

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**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-17th-primaries-ky-and-or/755051/43 "2016-05-18T22:05:50Z")

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> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#):
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> No, he’s just caucused with the Democratic Party the whole time he’s ever been in the Senate and voted with them the overwhelming majority of the time. :rolleyes:

Have you been paying any attention at all to the current primary races?

That was then, this is now. You might find it instructive to read the first paragraph of this article: [Analysis:: Passion of Bernie Sanders and his supporters turns against Democrats](http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-democrats-assess-20160518-snap-story.html)

“At Bernie Sanders’ first mention of the ‘leadership of the Democratic Party,’ boos cascaded through the arena. He upbraided Democrats for several minutes, each line widening the gap between Sanders, with his loyal followers, and the rest of the party whose presidential nomination he seeks.”

Now that Sanders has chosen to identify as a Democrat for the purposes of possibly winning the party’s nomination, he has chosen to lambaste them in a way he never did when he wasn’t an actual member of the party. Peculiar, yes, but there you have it.

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