scrambies

Outside of Bend, central and eastern Oregon are pretty much interchangeable. For the populated west side, everything east of the crest might as well be dragons, never mind that it makes up a much larger geographic portion of Oregon. Sparsely populated, dry and heavily Republican, maybe not dragons, but rodent and raptors love it. Merkley would do well to familiarize himself with the occasional enclave of Democrats here and there, but he's got their vote regardless, right? Even Democrats can be conservative (as in straight-party line voting).