Oregon election update brings a turnaround

John Kitzhaber, who served as Oregon's governor from 1995 to 2003, won an unprecedented third term Tuesday night, a Democrat bucking the Republican tide in a tight contest against newcomer Chris Dudley, a former Portland Trailblazer center.

Kitzhaber began pulling away from Dudley Wednesday evening after Dudley led at 6 p.m. with 93 percent of the vote counted; Kitzhaber subsequently opened up a slim lead of nearly 10,000 votes as more ballots of Democrat-rich Multnomah County were counted.