I think a three-way race is good for Oregon. Democracy is about choices.

<h2>I've long held that a 3rd party is going to be what's necessary to bring a little law and order back to Congress, the 'good congressman/bad congressman' gambit has just gotten us trillions in dollars in debt, and every year further and further away from ANY kind of public accountability, which is apparently a much-scoffed-at topic in Washington, these days. I guess the other way it can go is that eventually it'll just be a matter of a self-anointed pay-raise too far, followed by dollar divestiture around the world, at which point it'll definitely suck to be us, and the world will stand there asking 'hey, american voters, why didn't you DO anything back when you still had a chance?' I guess the up-side is that the dollar will be 1-1 with the ruble, and our government styles will have a lot in common, not because russia changed, but because 'we' did...</h2>