Forward Oregon

A lot has happen in a week.  I scrapped my thesis topic for something that I can possibly do without moving to the Middle East, College Democrats started up again, and I got to spend a bunch of time up in Portland.  So here are your Sunday Quick Hits:

• Elections should be on Saturday.  It makes celebrating Obama victories easier!
• The Oregon Federation of College Democrats launched the Student 2 Student organizing plan yesterday at the OFCD, which was quite impressive.  Kudos go to Sara Bean Duncan, the OFCD President, and Andrea Cooper, the DPO Constituency Director, for a great job.  Student 2 Student augments the DNC Neighbor to Neighbor program to take into account the transient nature of the college student population in a way that the Neighbor to Neighbor plan alone neglected.  Especially, if Obama is at the top of the ticket this plan could be the force that pushes a tsunami of college students to the polls in November.
• Also at the OFCD meeting was Ben Unger, the former Measure 49 guru, who was very effectively making his case for John Kroger, who’s AG campaign he is running.
• This Caroline Kennedy’s Op-Ed in the New York Times endorsing Obama made me get all warm and fuzzy on the inside:

I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.

I look forward to this week when John Kroger is coming to the Willamette College Democrats, which I will be blogging about.

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