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Find out where Oregon voters rejected or passed Election Day financial measures

Despite a dodgy economy, deep concerns about inflation and cynicism about big government, Oregonians showed a continued willingness on Election Day to support local government spending measures and open their own pocketbooks. to do it. John Horvick, a Portland pollster who tracks the success and failure of such measures in every election, said Oregonians typically …

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Low-income voters may have supported Democrats' surprising performance in 2022

Low-income voters may have supported Democrats’ surprising performance in 2022

Low-income workers who have seen substantial wage increases amid the pandemic may have helped bolster Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections after they were predicted to suffer heavy losses in Congress. . From the start of the first quarter of 2020 to the second quarter of 2022, wages for low-income earners far outpaced inflation, according …

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