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Smith, Bruggere wait for final count in close U.S. Senate race By Brad Cain The Associated Press PORTLAND — As the counting of absentee ballots continued, Republican Gor don Smith held onto a lead over Democrat Tom Bruggere in their battle to replace retir ing GOP Sen. Mark Hatfield. But with 500,000 absentee ballots still to be tallied, nei ther side was declaring victo ry. It was the nation’s only Senate race left undecided in Tuesday’s elections. Smith had 343,300 votes, or 49 percent, to Bruggere’s 326,052 votes, or 46 percent, as of late Wednesday. Final returns are not ex pected until Friday. “We like how the trend is going. We’re close to being there,” an increasingly opti mistic Smith told reporters. However, Smith stopped short of declaring himself the winner of the race and said he wanted to talk with Brug gere before making a public announcement. The frozen-food tycoon narrowly lost a special elec tion in January for Oregon’s other Senate seat, which opened up after Republican Bob Packwood resigned in disgrace. Smith’s campaign spokes man, Dan Lavey, predicted Smith would have the edge among people who cast ab sentee ballots. “Historically, more Repub licans have voted absentee in Oregon in part due to aggres sive efforts by our party to en courage people to vote at home,” Lavey said. Bruggere was not ready to concede anything and said he remained hopeful. “This is only an election. Nobody died in the end,” Bruggere said. Oregon has been experi menting with voting by mail. The Senate race was not actu ally conducted by mail, but one-third of the state’s voters, accustomed to the conve nience of sending in their vote, decided to cast absentee ballots. Smith has said jumping into the race to replace Hat field after losing to Democrat Ron Wyden in January by 18,000 votes out of 1.18 mil lion cast was one of the most difficult decisions he’s ever made. Bruggere, founder of a software company, was mak ing his first run for office. The Oregon Dally Emerald is published daily Monday through Fri day during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the sum mer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Oregon. A member of the Associated Press, the Emerald operates independently of the University with offices at Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is private property. The unlawful removal or use of papers is prosecutable by law Editor-In-Chief: Steven Asbury Managing Editor: Jennifer Carter Night Editor: Jennifer Carter Community: Jennifer Schmitt, editor. Christian Hill Entertainment: Nicole Kreuger, editor Jesse Stephenson Higher Education: Tamyra Howser. in-depth. 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