text: The usual action of the die-hard partisan voter who decides to vote in an open primary not their own, is to vote for the opposition most likely to lose to their own parties candidate---
  
  It would really be best if there were more swing states---assuming people want that---by making internal state politics more competitive. Lets reduce the power of the parties in favor of a wider look at possibilities. We should always be more concerned with the nation or state than the party politick.
  
  Personally I am glad for the relative paucity of presidential campaign in Oregon---in today's media world I wish they would save the money and stay home altogether. I also wish that every candidate had equal portions of a federally mandated weekly media exposure either self-generated or in the name of news coverage with the exception of truly news-worthy unplanned occurrences reported by someone other than the paparazzi that hangs around all the time anyway.