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This weekend, Sen. Barack Obama will be back in Oregon for his fourth visit. The campaign has released Sunday schedule, which includes a town hall meeting in Pendelton.

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Sean Astin is coming back to Oregon.

Astin, leader of the "Goonies," which was filmed in Astoria, will be in Portland tomorrow, visiting Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters and then heading to Portland State University.

Maybe he’ll find the jewels hidden in his marble bag to save the Democrats.

Dule HillCharlie Young, aide to "West Wing" President Josiah Bartlet (D-N.H.) is coming to town.

Well, more accurately, Dule Hill, the actor who portrayed him will be in Portland stumping for U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential candidate.

Hill will join Portland Mayor Tom Potter, who will endorse the Obama's presidential bid on Wednesday.

Obama himself will make his fourth visit to Oregon this weekend.

Don't expect Oregon's U.S. senators to be a presidential runningmate. In a survey of the U.S. Senate's membership not already running for president on whether they'd accept an offer to be vice president, The Hill newspaper found a variety of responses to the veepstakes question. Some were accompanied by laughs, others took the question seriously.

So, how did Republican Gordon Smith and Democrat Ron Wyden respond?

Barack Obama poses with employees of solar product maker the PV Powered Company May 10, 2008 in Bend, Oregon.: Getty Images
Barack Obama has a 20-point lead, 55%-35%, over Hillary Clinton in Oregon's May 20 Democratic presidential primary, according to a Portland's Davis, Hibbitts & Midghall Inc. for the Portland Tribune and KPTV News 12.

"Barring a disaster, Barack Obama's going to win Oregon, and he may win it very big," pollster Tim Hibbits told the Portland Tribune. "This is the widest lead that I've seen of any poll for Obama in Oregon," he said. "I'd be shocked if Obama didn't win here."

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I spy... Gov. Ted Kulongoski. At a John McCain event!

Kulongoski appeared-although did not speak-at McCain's event in Portland this afternoon.

His appearance didn't go unnoticed by the Republican Senator, who called Oregon's Democratic Governor (and pledged Clinton superdelegate) "a great governor of this state."

Sen. John McCain’s speech at the wind turbine manufacturing company, Vestas Wind Technology, has been raising the ire of Democrats in Oregon, the Democratic National Committee and Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

The big talking point is the choice of venue itself; back in 2003, Vestas cancelled a plan to construct a turbine plant and consequently laid off 500 employees due to uncertainty surrounding production tax credits. Vestas then joined a group that lobbied for the 2005 Energy Bill, which would have provided financial incentives to produce wind power, a bill which McCain ultimately opposed. Democrats blasted out ‘fact sheets’ throughout the morning deriding McCain’s voting opposition to tax credits for wind power producers, calling his speech—and its location—‘hypocritical.’