fight to run for another term. results show him leading by a significant margin against russ fulcher who campaigned as a more conservative candidate. a run off will determine who will run for saxby chambliss seat. david purdue and kingston topped the list. the eventual victor will face michelle nunn in the fall. she s the daughter of sam nunn. democrats believe she may be the best chance for retaking the senate seat her father once held. democrat jeff merkley will face monica wehby in the fall. she claimed to be more conservative despite the
the internal fight between conservative groups. governor bush otter running against fulcher who tried to run as the more conservative candidate. the election in oregon pitting jeff merkley against monica wehby. she is a pediatric neurosurgeon rocked by revelations of harassment complaints of an ex-husband and former boyfriend. she topped a more conservative opponent. two establishment candidates holding off the somewhat tea party backed secretary of state. cnn projects david purdue and jack kingston were the top finishers. neither broke the 50% threshold. there were two conservative
by russ fulcher. bill schuster only got 52% of the vote. i wonder if some tea party groups wonder if they picked the wrong guys to target. and physician monica wehby easily defeated jason conger. the race will likely center on oregon s unpopular health care exchange. in her victory speech last night, she took the time to take on charges. over the last several days there have been a lot of vicious, ugly, hurtful attacks. the lord knows that i am not
whether to fill it out and mail it in or drop it off in one of these cute ballot drop boxes, simple and easy. there were concerns in the leadup to the implementation of the new voting process in oregon. one of which the new york times raised in 1995. quote, so what happens, some people wonder, if a stunning revelation about a candidate comes out in the last day of the voting process? good question. we saw that exact fear manifest itself in this year s senate primary in oregon, in which the leading republican contender to run against jeff merkley she faced a handful of late-breaking, brand new stories, late-breaking personal scandals in the days before tonight s closely watched senate primary. on this past friday, four days before the primary it was politico .com that reported that last year, leading candidate monica wehby s ex boyfriend called the cops on her and accused her of stalking him.
for buzz feed. all right, how do you follow that? how do you follow that? a very honest thing to say. you are a political operative. do you think the wehby stuff has been fair game, coming from emily slist if that was a candidate. democratic woman, how would you be playing this, how would you be reacting to it? i think any time that the phrase police reports have come to light. can be used in a story that means that story is fair game for an election. i think that the national republican toting of monica wehby despite some pretty glaring issues in her canned daet misunderstand what democrats mean when they say republicans are waging a war on women. agen