Back for your viewing pleasure we are giving you our weekly winners and losers. Not much going on this week, but Vicki Walker managed to garner more press and there is one more Democrat in the city of Portland. Keep checking the Inside Edge for our weekly cast of characters.
After a bitter primary battle in the Attorney General race against State Rep. Greg Macpherson, it appears that love is in the air for Democratic (and Republican) nominee John Kroger. >
"There are some folks in the Republican Party that are perturbed with Gordon because he is independent and he’s spoken his mind," he said. "I’ve seen some people get cranky. I end up mediating, but if I think someone is out of line I will call them out on it."
– State Republican Party Chairman Vance Day on his mediation between more conservative members of the party and Republican U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, who s considered a moderate.