Can Gov. Kate Brown win over moderate Republican voters?

gov 1
Governor Kate Brown, D-Oregon, attends the Oregon State Fair with her husband on Monday, Sept. 3, 2018. (Photo by Natalie Pate)

If re-elected, Oregon’s Democratic Gov. Kate Brown wants to increase educational opportunities, protect health care coverage and advocate for environmental conservation, among other things.

But that may not happen if she doesn’t swing enough moderate Republican votes away from her opponent, Rep. Knute Buehler, R-Bend, while hanging onto the moderate voters in her own party.

Read the full analysis here.

Published by Natalie Pate

Natalie Pate is a freelance journalist and author based in Salem, Oregon. She wrote about education for more than seven years at the Statesman Journal and now covers education and other topics throughout the Pacific Northwest. She is originally from Colorado and earned her B.A. in Politics and French from Willamette University.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: