Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley addresses the Democratic National Convention, speaking to the need to move Oregon and America forward and how we need to change directions in Washington D.C.
Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio joined House Speaker and U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, and Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy at a rally in Eugene, on 10/14/08.
Senator Barack Obama is delivering an important message to all Oregonians about Jeff Merkley, candidate for U.S. Senate. In a new television ad from the Merkley campaign, Senator Obama says that Jeff Merkley will help change Washington and get America back on track. Go to JeffMerkley.com and help Jeff Merkley and Barack Obama bring change to Washington.
KATU / Survey USA polled the Oregon Senate race, and notes Jeff Merkley is pulling away. Merkley leads Republican Gordon Smith 49 percent to 42 percent.
In an exclusive KATU news poll by Survey USA, Jeff Merkley leads Gordon Smith 44 percent to 42 percent. And University of Portland professor Gary Malecha notes that "A lot of people are really unhappy with regard to where the Country's going. They're unhappy with regard to people in office. Smith represents that, and there's a lot of reaction against that."
In a new ad Jeff Merkley's campaign is exposing Smith's deceptive attacks and informing voters that Smith's own top aide voted to approve the bipartisan plan to renovate the capitol.
Jeff Merkley's new ad affirms that we must protect middle-class taxpayers and have safeguards on any economic package -- not merely issue a blank check bailout that Gordon Smith and the Republicans seek.
![Merkley Says \"No Way\" to Republican Wall Street Bailout](http://img.youtube.com/vi/bzRjbHg2l5w/2.jpg "Merkley Says \\"No Way\\" to Republican Wall Street Bailout")
![Jeff Merkley at Netroots Nation\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/9U2OiAi3PS8/2.jpg "Jeff Merkley at Netroots Nation\")
